Ramblings from the Creator of WilsonDotNet.com
>>narrowly devoted to software development LOL! What would they think to people that blog exclusively on GC for the .Net Compact Framework?
Despite the tech heavy influence in this article, I kinda have to agree with them, it is becoming more and more mainstream. My brother is a lawyer, and I can't think of a group less likely to change and use new ideas and technologies. But even some of the lawyers out where he lives and works (Chicago) have Blogs. An interesting side note on the effectiveness and power of blogging - the way blogging increases visibility of the people who do blog is amazing. It's like viral marketing for some products, and in this case, we bloggers ARE the product. And on the other side, you mean to tell me that there are people who have nothing better to do than to write stuff about programming online? And other people read it? Geeks!
People seem to forget that college kids have been blogging for years. They might be talking about being in love or getting drunk, but it's hardly a new phenomenon.
Burlington's weekly (kind of like a Village Voice of Vermont) just had blogs as their cover story. All policital ones though.
The Cherokee Tribune! Now, that's a metropolitan daily, if I've ever seen one...!
Congrats. I've gotten quite a few hits directly from the article, and my total number of hits has gone up about 10-20% a day. I guess more people read the Cherokee Tribune and own a computer than I might have thought.
Does any one actually believe there is a mainstream anymore? When news about the news in a local newspaper from Cherokee County is being read by someone up at 2:45 AM here in Tokyo, it's pretty evident that the idea of mainstream is dead. It was an artifact of media control concentrated in the hands of a few. Blogs have been in the news for years. If they haven't been covered in the news you've been hearing, reading, or watching perhaps it's time to change sources. "the premise was that blogs are getting mainstream"
You may want to update the link to the Tribune article. They moved it on us. I've updated my link at http://rainbowfish.typepad.com/ronandroger/2004/10/interview_with_.html.