Summary:

Graham lampa begins talking about a surgery done by Perseus Development company called “The Blogging Iceberg”. The survey mentions abandonment of blogs. Just as the article written called imagined communities by Anderson it mentions as newspapers were important role and with privacy atmosphere where one is confident in getting in their news. Also talks about reasons why people blog now. Also mention why blogging isn’t a bad way to break big news as some did in the past. Over the course of this well written article it breaks down into main ideas about why blogs die out also how people connect in their little online communities. Also talks about the blogging communities decreasing interacting with one another. Graham makes the case that majority of the blogger are diaries as the audience are to be friends and family. On the other hand while news media tend to have more reasons to blog to keep them having to blog. While some blogs can have readers relate and comment on individual, also forming a similar larger audience.

Main idea/ key terms

• Imagining communities- that there isn’t a strong community and groups are imagined are some are growing (some blogs)
• Filtering communities- enables users shared base knowledge also connections to cultural connections.
• (Perseus 2003)- 2/3 of blogs are inactive or abandoned and 1.09 million blogs are one-day wonders
• Global audience, Global access -blogging grows audience and writers have more increasing important things to write about as access and attention expands
• Mass amateurization – “changes all this by enabling anyone with access to a computer to publish her or his work for the entire world”
• Blogs aren’t really communities but where ideas and news are shared

• Mass Ceremony: “individuals receive information relevant to their lives within the national community.”
• Meatspace- basically the offline reality
• English languages domination: English outnumbers blogs 3 to 1. Portuguese being the second.
• American bloggers update their sites daily,60% update their blogs 1-2 times per week or less (Lenhart, Horrigan, & Fallows, 2004)
• 2-7% of Internet users have created weblogs, further enforcing the notion that the blogosphere includes an incredibly tiny proportion of the total global population (Lenhart, Horrigan, & Fallows, 2004).

Connections

I see blogs as place for artist and people that are bored to share ideas and images. One popular blog I think that fits well would be tumblr I’ve made two accounts in my life so far and I’ve had them in totally for like 4 days. At the time tumblr was to soft for me so I left but there was also some funny things where I enjoyed reading people comments and post. I believe that traditional blog are going to die really and most picture blogs like tumblr it will be one of those ancestors apps like facebook. Coming back to the tumblr audience, there will be those artist people and people bored so those people will keep those apps going so it won’t full die but it will be less mentioned from the public eye. I personally like reading a lot of newspapers and articles then most personal pieces about their ideas on major topics that aren’t relevant or as important.