It seems that blogging has indeed hit the masses. When even technophobes start using the term in conversations, you know the phenomenon has hit massive proportions.

The biggest boost to blogging took place recently at the Democratic National Convention, where they let several political bloggers attend, so that they would write about it on their sites.

Now I am SURE that blogging is mainstream. The proof? When I went to Amazon.com today to look something up, I noticed a message near the top that said “Looking for your plog?”

I clicked on it and it took me to my “plog”—my personalized blog for Amazon. As Amazon describes it, it is a personalized blog for each Amazon.com customer. “Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things. Just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. When we think we have something interesting or important to tell you, we’ll post it to your Plog.”

And, in case you clicked on your plog page but didn’t know what a blog was, Amazon tells you that: “A blog is a straightforward and now widely adopted method of posting a reverse chronological diary on the Internet.” and then proceeds to give you a list of some A-list bloggers.

Good grief—it’s everywhere! I’m just waiting for my grandma to ask me about “this blogging thing”.

Posted at 2:58 PM |

Oh, hehe, I guess I’m a little slow to notice these things. In my defense, it’s not a HUGE noticeable link. :)

Only time will tell if it’s jumped the shark. The articles I’ve read seem to think it hasn’t—that it will just get stronger as a respected media.

That might be true—after all, the people who have no clue what blogs are are the technophobes—these people are unlikely to start their own, or if they do, they are not likely to keep them updated after a period of time.

2 | Posted by: Jennifer on August 12, 2004 @ 4:10 PM