The Rise of the Blogosphere

by Aaron Barlow

In 1985 The WELL, a dial-up discussion board, began with the phrase: You own your own words. Though almost everything else about online discussion has changed in the two decades since, those words still describe its central premise, and this basic idea underlies both the power and the popularity of blogging today. Appropriately enough, it also describes American journalism as it existed a century and a half before The WELL was organized, before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275989968
• ISBN13: 9780275989965
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"