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Article: Nine myths and one truth about editorial board blogging.(Blogging innovations)(Editorial)
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- The Masthead
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- September 22, 2005
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Can you determine fact from fiction? Which is the single truth buried among these nine myths?
1. Blogging is just a passing fad.
This one should be easy. False.
There are more than fourteen million blogs in existence today, more than half of them active, according to a report released in August by Technorati, a website that indexes blogs. Some eighty thousand new blogs are created every day. And if that's not mind-bending enough, consider this: some nine hundred thousand blog postings are added each day. The blogosphere doubles in size every 5.5 months.
Business Week online recently called blogs "simply the most explosive outbreak in ...