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...even within Microsoft some say the seven-way split is unwieldy. Robert Scoble is the most widely read of a new wave of Microsoft employees who have been allowed to write freely about the company in online journals, or blogs. His blog, Scobleizer, has repeatedly called for the company to voluntarily do what the Justice Department couldn't compel--split into separate, nimbler companies, a.k.a. Baby Bills. (Gates is vehemently opposed to the idea...
While millions of text-driven blogs have blossomed worldwide, there are only a couple hundred video blogs out there. To sample some, check out Japanese slacker vlog avoidinglife.com music-video blog sxsw.com/music or the Drudge Report--like compendium of diary vlogs vidblogs.com Hollywood celebrities are also plunging in: Adam Sandler's personal site offers regular video messages from the comic...
Jeff Jarvis, an early champion of vlogging and founder of BuzzMachine.com a blog that deals with politics and the media, sees great potential in the phenomenon. "Vlogs are a weird, new kind of way that people can document their lives," says Jarvis. "It has the potential to be the farm team for new talent used by big, mainstream media. Suddenly anybody can become an Andy Rooney." Or better yet, an Edward R. Murrow...
Nobody tracks the number of family-oriented blogs, and estimates of the blogging universe range from 300,000 to 3 million sites, but by all indications, baby blogs are becoming more common. According to an October 2002 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, parents are more likely to be online than nonparents, and 53% of online parents say the Internet has improved the way they connect with family; 61% say it has boosted relations with friends. At Lycos, which is host to two blog sites, moms are regarded as the future. "The new blogging world skews female," explains...
...says. "But I wouldn't have dreamed of putting it on the Internet. Families today are creating a whole new way of using the Web that I don't think anyone could have predicted." Nor do most parents themselves predict that they will be the next ones to blog on. But first you get the digital camera, and the next thing you know, you're e-mailing baby pics, and soon you are blah, blah, blogging...