Chapter 2. Why Blogs Are Free
The explosion in blog popularity is due to freedom, which blogs provide in two different ways. If you can access the Internet (at school, the library, your neighbor’s wireless network), you can create a blog at no cost, and (this is the important part) you are free to say whatever you want. In essence, blogs are “free” and blogs are “free”. Have you heard the phrase “free as in freedom” or maybe “free as in beer”? These two concepts really have more to do with software than blogs, but the messages they imply speak volumes about the world of web logs.
Blogs are currently free in that they enable everyone to communicate with no restrictions (as in “freedom”). They also are free as in no-cost soapbox evangelism (like ...
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