Blogging was a newer creation three years ago, but what has not changed is the popularity of it. A quote from Kline and Burnstein’s Blog! reveals just how popular blogs are on a daily basis. “… 23,000 blogs are being built every day; the BusinessWeek story ups that to 40,000.” Blogging is the tool the general public uses to stay in touch, to share opinions, and to share music and videos (among many other such things shared online). Blog! compares the spread of blogs to the spread of print with the start of the printing press in 1440. Blogging is continuing to become the network of now.
Though businesses are also adopting blogs as a source of advertising and keeping up with the general consensus on their products, I believe that non-business blog sites are popping up and becoming much more popular. With the start of podcasts and more widely available music and videos, the Internet and blog sites have increased popularity tenfold. “… Curry created software called iPodder so these MP3s could hitch a ride on an iPod. That was the birth of podcasting: radio programming whenever and wherever you want it…. Before podcasting only about 150 people a month bothered to download the audio files of Morning Stories, a show on Boston’s public station WGBH. After the station switched to podcasting in October? Eighty thousand” (230).