Assessing the Risks
Blogs offer an environment where people can share their ideas and feelings with friends and family or with others who have similar interests, or even with the public at large. They encourage creativity, expression, and interaction. Blogs enable people to get involved and have a voice in politics and news reporting and other forms of participatory citizenship. They enable people to meet new friends and expand their horizons. So what makes people anxious about blogs?
The Blogging Phenomenon
There are more than 70 million blogs online today (www.blogherald.com). I’ve talked about blogs frequently throughout this book, in part because they are a relatively new tool for the general public and have become a wildly popular trend that ...
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