Research Questions: Andrew
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Andrew
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What is blogs ? And why using blogs?
- A blog (short for "Web log") is a cross between a personal diary and a list of links to articles on the Web. Internet users can create them, and anyone surfing the Web can read them.
- Everyone can express his meaning/thought or sharing information on a easy way.
- In Web 1.0, a small number of writers created Web pages for a large number of readers. Over time, however, more and more people started writing content in addition to reading it.
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What will the bottom-up internet effect?
- New search engines, an online marketplace, solutions for spam, communication.
- People have stuff they want to share (or axes to grind or stuff they want to say), so giving them a place to express themselves and a community of users to share it with will result in a system that grows exponentially through the network effect to become more than the sum of its parts
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What is bottom-up internet important for?
- According to some expert bottom-up internet infrastructure is the key to achieve a knowledge-based society. It can change peoples lifestyle, knowledge, view, politics … etc.
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how many podcast users?
- The study estimates that 4.8 million persons have at some time during 2005 downloaded a podcast from either a radio station or other source. While in 2004 only 820,000 podcast users.
- More interestingly, on average less than 20% listen to their podcast downloads on an MP3 player or other digital device.
- By 2010 podcast audience growth is expected to reach a conservative 45 million users who will have ever listened to a podcast. Aggressive estimates place this number closer to 75 million by this date.