Shameless self promotion
I'm teaching an upper-division new media class at the UW for the next two quarters, called "Navigating Information Networks." The class Web site is already posted, and my students will be collectively blogging throughout the quarter. It should prove entertaining.
In other news, despite blog being crowned the word of the year by Merriam-Webster dictionary, only 38% of Americans online are familiar with them. Even fewer people, 7% according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project report, have actually created a blog. And, who knows how many of those individuals actually update their blogs, um, regularly.
So, if so few people are using them, are blogs really changing the face of politics, culture, society, [enter any metaconcept here]...? Or is the phenomenon just a bunch of hype?