The Power of the Blog

By Darren DraperASTE 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 - some of them have to be good.”

David SifryFounder of Technorati

Image © 2007 Technorati –Source: http://www.technorati.com/

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%

Blogs

Here to stay?

We’ll See…

Should every teacherhave a blog?

I think so!

http://drapestakes.blogspot.com/