January 2, 2005

The Booming Blogosphere

Jeff Jarvis has two posts about blogs and the media that are not to be missed. The first deals with new data from the Pew Internet and American Life project which finds that the explosive growth in the creation of blogs is exceded only by the even more explosive growth in the number of Americans reading blogs. The second republishes and comments on NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen's round-up of the top-10 new media concepts of 2004.

I urge you to read both - and then order your copy of Hugh Hewitt's new book, Blog : Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World . It's only $13.99 at Amazon, a very small price to pay to be on the cutting edge of the revolution underway in the marketplace of ideas. Seven of my readers already have. What are you waiting for?

UPDATE: I may have forgotten to blog this article from Fortune last week, "Why There's No Escaping the Blog." Fortune's excellent article looks at how blogs can impact a company's reputation. Says the magazine: "Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product - or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore." That's about right.