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Blog Binging Gorges the Net

Site Pixie writes "Most blogs are created by someone you don’t know, often about something you don’t care about, but that hasn’t stopped ‘blogging’ from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even blogs about blogs such as The Blog Herald. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame online. Estimates put the number of blogs to be in the tens of millions, with several factors influencing the count, such as whether a blog is available for public or private consumption. Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting blogs, and shows how blog indexing sites like BlogPulse and Technorati are bursting at the seams with thousands of new blog entries everyday."

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  1. Re:Google Blogsearch by garcia · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find that both Technorati and Blogpulse produce fewer, but more relevant results

    Luckily I have never run into that problem myself but I will keep an eye out for it.

  2. Re:how about calling them... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll



    http://www.microsoft.com/>Ohh, this is so much fun!

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  3. Re:how about calling them... by ArsonSmith · · Score: 0, Troll
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  4. Re:Thanks to Geeks/Nerds by SpaceAdmiral · · Score: 0, Troll

    I disagree. I wrote my own blog system in PHP, my pages are all valid XHTML, and I manually insert my entires into MySQL. I can certainly write HTML and it was hardly an "easy-to-setup-homepage". . .

    The reason it's a blog? Because it's updated often, sorted chronologically, and, unlike a forum, only allows me to post entries on it (although readers can submit comments about entries).