30 milionow blogow

jest na swiecie i liczba ich rosnie z szybkoscia 80 tys. nowych blogow dziennie. Jest to fenomen, ktorego nie moze zauwazyc biznes, szczegolnie reklamowy, oraz politycy. Wyglada na to, ze przed wyborami w Kanadzie blogosfera tez sie pomalu zacznie liczyc w kampanii.

Ja swoim blogiem tez mala cegielke do budowli tego nowego medium komunikacyjno-informacyjnego wlozylem. A takze w celu edukacyjnym, tworzac na forum dyskusyjnym mojego rodzinnego miasta Ustki temat blogierski pt. "Blogierka" (http://www.ustka.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=469).

Weblogs managed to rise above the masses (there are now more than 30 million blogs with more than 80,000 created each day) by offering advertisers a central place to reach out to millions of readers across a broad spectrum of interests - an acceptable structure for traditional media buyers...
Battelle, the author of the bestselling book on Google called The Search is trying to create a strength-in-numbers business model that provides centralized services while, in theory, allowing bloggers to keep to passion and independence - two key characteristics that have let the blogosphere thrive in a very short period of time...
For many magazines, newspapers and television broadcasters, blogs are a new phenomena and many organizations have yet to determine how they fit into their editorial and advertising operations (Mark Evans, "Blogging enters mainstream", NATIONAL POST, Tuesday, December 6, 2005).

Case in point: the NDP's official Web site doesn't have a blog. The Conservatives' site does, but it reads like a formal campaign newsletter. And the Liberals may have been better off pretending blogs don't exist, Mr. Federman said, citing "the very lame blog done by Paul Martin's [speechwriter] that really does sound like a teenager's diary, and it's shameful" ("Political 'fogeys' haven't learned how to campaign on Web, strategist says", NATIONAL POST, Wednesday, December 7, 2005).

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Channelling Paul Martin

CBC comedian Rick Mercer (http://rickmercer.blogspot.com) writes a mock blog entry for PM Paul Martin - not to be confused with the actual blog from the PM's tour (see liberal.ca), which is almost as wacky:

My fellow Liberals,
As expected, the media has been critical of us in these, the early days of the campaign. Basically they are all saying the same thing:
1. The Liberals don't have a cohesive campaign plan.
2. The Prime Minister seems to be invisible.
Well, all I can say is imagine how embarrassed they are going to be when they realize that me being invisible IS the cohesive campaign plan...
Let me spell it out for you: this election is going to be decided in the heartland that is Ontario, and the more I stay out of Ontario, the more popular I get...
I have to hand it to (Stephen) Harper on his new childcare plan... Today I was told Celine Dion slapped a Tory sign on side of Caesar's Palace when she heard that Harper is going to send her a $1,200 government check to offset the cost of her child care.
Well, I should run. Someone on the plane is passing out more cookies with my head on them. I don't mind when my own staff gleefully chews my neck of in front of the press. They are laughing with me, not at me. Right?
Yours in defending Canada,
Paul Martin (TORONTO SUN, Wednesday, December 7, 2005).