Thursday, September 30, 2004
Yahoo! News - Bloggers become weapon in US presidential election
Yahoo! News - Bloggers become weapon in US presidential election: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - The 2004 presidential campaign has marked the coming of age for Internet 'blog' journals as a cutting edge political tool for raising cash and revving up political support.
AFP/File Photo
Latest headlines:
�Bush, Kerry Prepare for Debate in Fla.
AP - 5 minutes ago
�Halloween Masks May Predict Election Winner
AP - 9 minutes ago
�Debate Panel Nixes Kerry Campaign Request
AP - 14 minutes ago
All Election Coverage
Blogs, short for web logs, are online diaries, sometimes by fiercely-partisan writers, that are being lapped up by the Internet masses.
The journals took off in the mid-1990s and there are now estimated to be hundreds of thousands on every subject in cyberspace.
Bloggers -- the writers of the journals -- have become a vital source of information and commentary, and an alternative to traditional newspapers and television.
'It's a terrible word for an exciting new form of communication,' said Howard Finberg, an expert on interactive media at the Poynter Institute, a Florida journalism thinktank. "
AFP/File Photo
Latest headlines:
�Bush, Kerry Prepare for Debate in Fla.
AP - 5 minutes ago
�Halloween Masks May Predict Election Winner
AP - 9 minutes ago
�Debate Panel Nixes Kerry Campaign Request
AP - 14 minutes ago
All Election Coverage
Blogs, short for web logs, are online diaries, sometimes by fiercely-partisan writers, that are being lapped up by the Internet masses.
The journals took off in the mid-1990s and there are now estimated to be hundreds of thousands on every subject in cyberspace.
Bloggers -- the writers of the journals -- have become a vital source of information and commentary, and an alternative to traditional newspapers and television.
'It's a terrible word for an exciting new form of communication,' said Howard Finberg, an expert on interactive media at the Poynter Institute, a Florida journalism thinktank. "
