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Term Blogging

David Warlick published a post on the Quiet Revolution where he discusses a colleague who was speaking to a room of 19-20 year olds and when blogging was mentioned, no one raised their hand. Is blogging becoming an obsolete term?

If the same person has asked if those students wrote on Facebook or MySpace the response would've been different. They don't consider that blogging. Many of these same students probably keep a journal at Open Diary of LiveJournal, do they consider that blogging?

As vocabulary grows by leaps and bounds, I would suggest subscribing to a reader {like Bloglines or Google Reader} and adding some RSS feeds to see what the most current influences in technology and your occupation will come from next.

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