Wonder how many hundred thousand visits of those are mine.
Posted on 07/12/2006 10:23:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Record numbers of people are now visiting blogs, proving that blog visitation is now part of mainstream online behavior for many internet users.
Once bastions for the tech elite, blogs are now as ubiquitous to the web as reality shows are to television. Blogs are redefining how people experience the web and, in many ways, have helped precipitate the shift towards user-generated content on the internet (otherwise known as the Web 2.0 movement).
The emergence of the blogosphere has marked the true democratization of the internet-- a paradigm shift that has taken users from merely having access to information to allowing them to engage in the free exchange of opinions and ideas. But how do we know whether this shift is truly occurring on a wide scale? comScore data show that record numbers of people are now visiting blogs, proving that blog visitation is now part of mainstream online behavior for many internet users.
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The top special interest blog in May was TVSquad.com with more than two million visitors, followed by FreeRepublic.com (up seven percent to 1.6 million visitors) and Breitbart.com (1.6 million visitors).
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Bump!
I like the sound of that.
Damnit, Jim, we not a blog!
;-)
Congratulations!
Congrats Jim
I'll bet FR is NUMBER ONE on the "forum's" list.
They put us in the catagory of a blog because as a forum we are Number One
Meh. I hear that DU is up to 43 registered users... that's like, most of Air America's audience.
The top special interest blog in May was TVSquad.com with more than two million visitors, followed by FreeRepublic.com (up seven percent to 1.6 million visitors)
Lots of exposure here!
Big congrats!
Congratulations Jim, that's big numbers.
Wonder how many hundred thousand visits of those are mine.
Woo hoo!! bttt
Cheers!
Excellent!
That leaves about 36 million people who are either not watching news or are going somehere else for news. They have to be divided between talk radio and the net. The key factor is Talk Radio is not growing and the internet as a source of news is.
The media has always been the middle man between elected officials, candidates, political parties, and other news sources such as law enforcement, fire departments and appointed officials. I wonder if there is a way for the internet to eliminate the middle man... to allow news makers and the public to have open and unfiltered two way communications.
Even today there are threads that get a handful of views and comments and others that get many thousands. It is a feed back that no letter to the editor or call in show can match. It seems to me that news that would not go through a filter would be worth while for any political party and for the public as well
If the MSM is indeed dying, then what do we use to replace their articles that we post?
It is perhaps worth pondering... where is the internet is going.
Congratulations Jim & crew!
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