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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
By Stuart Brown
 Blogging has exploded in the last few years. It's not like it's a new phenomena, at least relatively speaking, because it's actually been around since the very beginnings of the world wide web. But what has changed, is that blogging is now being seen as a mainstream tool, and hence is increasingly being used by businesses to promote themselves. In a way, this is good, because it does mean that consumers are increasingly getting more and more information about products and services that they use on a regular basis. However, on the flip side of that, it has served to dampen some of the more weird and eccentric blogging that used to be the rule rather than the exception. In a sense it is a philosophical conundrum which is fighting for the very heart and soul of what blogging is really about. And serving to ask the question, What is Blogging? Is it merely a commercial exercise? Or does it strike at the heart of what the internet is really about. Namely information purely for informations own sake. No matter how strange it may be...
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