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• The practice of blogging is hardly new. Well before the dot-com swoon, blogging began to boom.
• a group "large enough that at least there's many different weblogs, and a million different kinds of weblogs,"
• John Dvorak of PC Magazine said that while a few blogs were insightful, many new webloggers were getting into blogging for all the wrong reasons. They were "wannabe writers" who were looking for "ego gratification," Dvorak wrote.
• 90 percent of science-fiction is crud. That's because 90 percent of everything is crud." so 90% of blogs are not interesting enough for people
• so what if most weblogs aren't interesting? The good thing, said Williams, is that everybody doesn't have to read them all.
• weblogging still needs to get significantly easier for the real talent to come online.
• even before this new technology arrives, some of those who have taken a dim view of the mainstreaming of blogging say there is still a lot to be celebrated.