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(2) Commercialization
Nicholas Carr (2008b), in “Who killed the blogosphere?” wrote:
Almost all of the popular blogs today are commercial ventures with teams of writers,
aggressive ad-sales operations, bloated sites, and strategies of self-linking. Some are
good, some are boring, but to argue that they're part of a “blogosphere” that is
distinguishable from the “mainstream media’ seems more and more like an act of
nostalgia, if not self-delusion.
Carr quotes the Economist (2008) in support of his thesis. In response to Carr’s
post, Andreas Kluth (2008) admitted that he was the author of the anonymous
(why??) Economist (2008) article, wherein he stated:
Blogging has entered the mainstream, which - as with every new medium in history -
looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death.
(3) Pseudonyms: some bloggers fail to take responsibility for the content of their blogs
by hiding behind pseudonyms.
(4) Insularity of many blogs – some are personal diaries of limited general interest.
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