Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Bloggers Are More Techie... Duh
Our reading from Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's Naked Conversations on how blogs might represent an "echo chamber" and what bloggers present as important might only be important to them was utterly pointless. It points out the obvious fact that bloggers are not representative of the world or US populations. So Howard Dean was very popular with bloggers in 2004... and those bloggers just weren't that numerous when it came to the voting public. Or Firefox has a greater market share and user-base with bloggers. The authors found two statistics for Firefox's market share: 10% according to "OneStat, a web-analytics company" and 38.7% according to "BoingBoing, one of the five most popular blogsites" at press time in 2006. Maybe I'm just in a cynical mood tonight but this seems to show that blogs really aren't (yet) the end-all of freeing information for the masses and may only be doing this "liberation" of ideas for a select group of users who can devote their time to using computers and Internet access to write about their favorite politicians while using their favorite web browsers. What about the regular people that are still using Internet Explorer on their Windows 98 PC... or poor people who can't afford to buy a computer or Internet access? And what about illiterate people who can't even read others blogs, not to mention write their own?
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from how i read the reading and interpteed the howard dean reading is that although his viewers on his blog were huge they were all the same party...No one from other political parties were reading his blog so did it really help in the end?...When you write a blog who are you writiing it for?
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