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The NYT had a couple of articles on blogging this weekend, focusing on the potential pitfalls, all kinds of drama and psychodrama. It was interesting that there was no discussion of new forms of netiquette evolving to deal with this relatively new media. I suppose that doesn't make as interesting a story as the woman who posted about her job and got fired, or the woman who blasted her family (believing the technophobic family would never find it), and started a family rift. There was a greater emphasis on voyeurism (an 18-year-old's adventures with sex and birth control) than an emerging form of more accessible personal writing, which in the long run is more interesting to me. (Side thought: In some ways it will be a lot easier to do social history about our period, with such a wealth of documents.)

Also interesting was that they said that about 3 million people have blogs. About a million people have LJ accounts (ignoring the active/inactive distinction); are these included in the estimate? I couldn't tell, since the article only mentioned people with their own sites.