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Friday, September 13, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-lv-blogs12sep12002050.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology Crashing the Blog Party - Academics, journalists move the Web's raucous alternative newsletters toward the mainstream RENEE TAWA, TIMES STAFF WRITER, LA Times ...Whither the blog-o-sphere, not to mention the future of the news media as we know it? Recently, there have been unmistakable signs that blogs are seeping into the popular consciousness. In July, for instance, New York Times language watcher William Safire wrote a column on the use of the word "blog, " noting that the term came into vogue three years ago. "Blog" also is under consideration as a new entry in no less an authority than the Oxford English Dictionary. And consider: This fall, UC Berkeley is offering a class on Web logs for the first time--through its highly regarded Graduate School of Journalism. Since spring 2000, journalism students at USC's Annenberg School for Communication have produced a Web log. This semester, at Cal State Stanislaus, an assistant communications professor is teaching an undergraduate class on the history of journalism that will cover "blogs as a new journalistic form."....
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