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Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It's Becoming, and Why It Matters (Hardcover)

By: Scott Rosenberg (Author)


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"Rosenberg is more qualified than most to write this piece of Internet history....[and b]eyond his tech journalism credentials, [he] knows how to tell a story....Not since the early days of personal computers have there been such riveting and quirky tales of 'pioneers and innovators,' those men and women able to consider the possibilities of daily life in remarkable new ways."

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The co-founder of Salon.com explores the complex network of blogging and provides insights into the new medium with discussions on privacy, self-expression, authority, and community, and includes close-ups of blogging innovators, including Evan Williams of Blogger.

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Scott Rosenberg, a cofounder of Salon, one of the most popular Internet journals, reports that, as of 2008, estimates of the number of worldwide blogs range in the realm of 200 million, but that number likely climbed significantly in the time it took me to type this sentence. Rosenberg provides the first attempt at a comprehensive history of this web phenomenon, which has given virtually any person on the planet the capability of making public comments on any subject, resulting in an exponential increase in the amount of information available, both good and bad. He also features detailed portraits of several blogging pioneers, such as Blogger founder Evan Williams, misanthropic software guru Dave Winer, and online diarist Justin Hall, whom Rosenberg anoints as the first confessional blogger. For more information on this entertaining, informative and important book, log on to a blog near you.

Blogs are not a fad. They are a new species of written conversation, a complex network of influence spanning everything from political debates to torrid confessions to urgent bulletins from first responders. The days when three network anchors would tell us what to think are gone; now we get to tell one another.
"Say Everything "offers close-ups of blogging innovators like Blogger founder Evan Williams, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, exhibitionist diariest Justin Hall, and many others, and explores the dilemmas that still face bloggers: How much if their private lives should they reveal? Should they blog for the love or for money? Is blogging anonymous ranting or honest, unmediated discussion? Through their stories, "Say Everything" presents essential insights into privacy, self-expression, authority, and community for all of us in the era of Google and Facebook.
In his first book, "Dreaming in Code, "Scott Rosenberg brilliantly explored the art of creating software ("the first true successor to Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine,"" wrote James Fallows in "The Atlantic"). In "Say Everything "he brings the same perceptive eye to the blogosphere, capturing as no one else has the birth of a new medium.



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