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Friday, October 04, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6774 Blogs: A Disruptive Technology Coming of Age? Phillip D. Long To blog or not to blog, that is increasingly the question for those of us supporting our academic communities. Lest you think the editor fell asleep and missed correcting that last sentence, some background is in order. In 1997 Jorn Barger coined the phrase Weblog to describe a site that combined links, commentaries, and personal thoughts and essays from the perspective of the Weblog author. The promise of the Web, however, was that everyone could publish, that a thousand voices could flourish, communicate and connect. But only those people who knew how to code a Web page could make their voices heard. For early adopters this was enough. Today it’s not....
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