Le Blog de Jean-Christophe Dardart. Authority in the Age of the Amateur. By Ellyssa Kroski With the genesis of Web 2.0, we find ourselves in the age of the amateur; a time when everyone has a voice, not just those in powerful positions. Through the blogosphere, Internet users participate in the read-write Web providing valuable sources for news, opinion and miscellany. A rapidly growing phenomenon, the number of weblogs hurtled over 27.2 million as of February 2006 according to Technorati, whose studies showed that the size of the blogosphere doubles every five and a half months. This new style of journalism that is unabashedly subjective and endearingly personal represents a global conversation that is connected through its community of readers. (11)
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