Blogging today has become a popular surrogate venue that offers voice and platform to common people. Uncensored information, unmediated conversation and uncontrolled voice are considered to be its greatest strength. Also, the absence of gatekeepers and the freedom from all consequences compromises their integrity and thus their value.
We have entered an era vibrating with the din of small voices. The newest and most rapidly developing Internet phenomenon is the Weblog. It is hard to differ that Blog are better, faster and cheaper than the "old" media. Today, the blog battle is not just between amateurs and professionals; it is also between entrepreneurs and news organizations.
Weblog’s combination of instantaneous comment, links to breaking news stories, and links to other blogs and their sources permits a very rapid and fluid means of following and understanding events. Particularly useful is the ability of bloggers to check and fact-find on articles in the mainstream press, and particularly to pick apart and quickly expose errors by mainstream pundits, broadcast reporters and other sources.People have been maintaining blogs for long, but it gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems that simplified and accelerated the publishing process
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