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Article: Blogs: Here to stay - with changes.(FEATURES)(PLANET)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- April 15, 2004
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Byline: Gregory M. Lamb Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
They're hip. Influential. Out there. By one estimate, there are 2 million of them posted on the Internet around the world talking about everything from knitting patterns to the war in Iraq. But as blogs - or personal weblogs - move into the limelight, they're also coming under closer scrutiny. And the conclusions are in some ways sobering.
Except for a tiny number of blogs that have gained prominence, all this techno-chattiness remains just that: an immature form of communication that has yet to gain traction with the general public, experts say. Most are moldering in cyberspace, ...