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Blogs Bigger Than Jesus

Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer Daniel RubinInquirer quotes Google as his source when he says blogs have become:

Bigger than Jesus. Bigger than sex.

While that is an amusing way to think of it, and I always appreciate a reference to the Beatles, I did enjoy the actual facts and figures laid out in the article.

Nine percent of American adults who surf the Web write blogs, according to Pew's Internet and American Life Project - that's 13 million people. And 27 percent of Internet users read them - 39 million Americans. That's only counting those 18 years old and up. Millions more young people post Web logs - diaries, sounding boards, screeds, commentaries that draw commentary - in places such as Xanga, LiveJournal, AOL and MySpace.

Hey Rammage, remember when our friend G-Dawg used to blog? That was great, wasn't it? Ah, the good old days...

On a similar topic, USA Today carried an article the other day on how people are using Google instead of remembering things. Speaking as a teacher who has internet access in the classroom, I can say that students had better get damned good with Google if they expect to make it in life, because they spend all of our lecture time on MySpace, posting their pictures and IMs to strangers around the world. With the computer open, the good Googlers can tell me just about anything I ask in under a minute, if it doesn't involve a calculation (give them an extra two if it does, Google does calculations you know... and unit conversions... try it!). But with the computer closed, it's no wonder why their standardized scores are dropping - they can't answer anything. I don't remember how bad the scores are at our school - why should I? I can Google it if I need to know.