All Blog Posts from Tech Talk

Remember blogs? Oh, sure, there are still plenty of active and beloved blogs rippling through the interwebs. But as many of us find ways to compress our lives into 140 characters or less the traditional blog (seems odd to use the word "traditional" next to "blog" but there you go) seems to be losing some steam. It used to be that the media would quote politicians who posted on their Web site or refer to what a celebrity wrote on their blog. Blogs were (and can still be) THE place to find unfiltered analysis. These days, if you want to find a following or spout your observations to the masses, then you likely head to Twitter. But is all this linguistic distillation making people more concise or less thoughtful?

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Try doing a search for any subject at all. Go on. Open a browser and type in whatever random topic you'd like. I can almost guarantee that the Wikipedia entry about it will be either one or two in the search results. Clearly founder Jimmy Wales and company have mastered the art of being discovered online, and it helps that they have such a ubiquitous presence. Word is they've reached the two million mark for Wikipedia English entries, though there's some debate over who or what reached the milestone.

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