The blogoshpere is exploding. For those who do not know what that means or whether it is a cause for concern in their lives, dont worry. If you dont know what the blogosphere is, you arent at any personal risk regardless of whether it explodes or evaporates. And you are also not alone.
Although there are now, according to Technorati 70,000,000 blogs online and 120,000 being started every day, a 2005 study done by the UK newspaper The Guardian indicated that 30% of those questioned who claimed to be frequent Internet users had never even heard of a blog, let alone the blogosphere.
But for the millions of Internet users who have blogs, read blogs, or both, the health of the blogosphere is of great interest.
With another US presidential campaign already underway, those who track such things will be interested to know that in the last half 2004, according to a study done by the American Life Project, the number of Internet users who reading blogs more than doubled from seventeen to thirty-seven percent, although the number of those writing them rose from five to only seven percent.
The Presidential race in 2008 will more than likely see another boost in...