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Dave Taylor kicked off BlogWorld Expo’s Executive & Entrepreneur Day keynote earlier and discussed the “State of Blogging and Where It’s Heading.” Here are some of the highlights:

Blogging is ….

• Storytelling (core human need is to communicate)
• Biased, as nothing is objective
• All about giving communicators the freedom to experiment and try it out (free blogs especially do that and gives you permission to abandon if it isn’t working out)
• A communication channel with a global reach
• A bi-directional media

About Bloggers …

• Some don’t write for an audience, some do it for themselves (example: diaries, not unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, are personal)
• Gives people the ability [...]

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Yesterday, ContentRobot participated in a webcast that featured Seth Godin, a marketing guru and best-selling author of nine books, as he discussed his latest effort: How to Avoid the Meatball Sundae. He wants to encourage marketers to change their tactics to reap bigger rewards in the Internet Age.

Background We are in the midst of another industrial revolution. This time, it doesn’t involve the factories and the processes that characterize the 1920s; rather it takes advantage of the Internet and the new ways to sell products and services.

According to Wikipedia:

The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. This was quickly adopted as both a noun and verb (”to blog,” meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”).

Thanks to everyone who has paved the way for ContentRobot to not only blog ourselves but to help others in their blogging quests!

With the rise of blog and its popularity, occasionally A-listers would ask, “Where are all the women bloggers?” Looks like the answer is,” they’ve finally arrived.”

According to a survey done by Synovate:

… 80% of Americans know what a blog is, 50% regularly visit blogs, and 8% publish their own blog … more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14 % of men