The Power of the Blog By Darren Draper ASTE 7500

Blog = “Web log” (Weblog: Coined by Jorn Barger, 1997)

Chronological Order (Written In)

Reverse Chronological Order (Displayed In)

“ Blog”

Weblog > “We Blog” (Blog: Coined by Peter Merholz, 1999)

blog (v): To maintain or add content to a blog

Blogs Many and Varied!

Photo Blogs

Video Blogs (Vlogs)

MP3 Blogs (Music)

Artlogs

Blog Topics Also Many and Varied!

“ 70 million blogs - s ome of them have to be good.” David Sifry Founder of Technorati Image © 2007 Technorati –Source: http://www.technorati.com/

“ 70 million blogs - s ome of them have to be good.”

David Sifry

Founder of Technorati

Over 70 Million Blogs

120,000 New blogs created daily - worldwide

1.4 per second New blogs

1.4 Million Per Day Blog posts

58,000 Per Hour Blog posts

Replacing Mainstream Media?

Political Bloggers Swaying voters

#1 Blogging Language?

Summary Over 70 million weblogs About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or... 1.4 new blogs every second 1.5 million posts per day, or... 17 posts per second 22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37% English second at 33%

Over 70 million weblogs

About 120,000 new weblogs each day, or...

1.4 new blogs every second

1.5 million posts per day, or...

17 posts per second

22 blogs among the top 100 blogs among the top 100 sources linked to in Q4 2006 - up from 12 in the prior quarter

Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%

English second at 33%

Blogs Here to stay?

We’ll See…

Should every teacher have a blog?

I think so!

http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/