http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/27/proving-that-blogs-affect-society/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2006/04/27/proving-that-blogs-affect-society/comment-page-1/#comment-31408 Linda O'Hara Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:04:38 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=569#comment-31408 Blogs are a medium that perpetually generates hearsay and fact gathering or collaboration. We have heard and shared thoughts from all over the world regarding people, ideas, concepts, gossip, politics, religion, science, journals, and insights. The effect of a Blog helps accelerate influence and curves enthusiasm depending upon the content, source, readers, and bloggers (writers). Blogs allow people a common interface to communicate immediately and offer a brief instance of tapping into one's beliefs and interests. Which is why political blogs have been quite useful and effective due to its low entry fee, instant communication features and ease of use or abuse. Bloggers and their audience have the vast capability of exponentially growing by extending other Blogs and web based communities through inspiration, “word of mouth,” and cross-links to other posts or articles. One instance where Blogs have affected society beyond the computer is with the http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog where the Obama campaign invested in the online communities inspiring "change" for his Presidential election. Also, read Nate Silver's blog, fivethirtyeight.com. Blogs are a medium that perpetually generates hearsay and fact gathering or collaboration. We have heard and shared thoughts from all over the world regarding people, ideas, concepts, gossip, politics, religion, science, journals, and insights. The effect of a Blog helps accelerate influence and curves enthusiasm depending upon the content, source, readers, and bloggers (writers). Blogs allow people a common interface to communicate immediately and offer a brief instance of tapping into one’s beliefs and interests. Which is why political blogs have been quite useful and effective due to its low entry fee, instant communication features and ease of use or abuse.
Bloggers and their audience have the vast capability of exponentially growing by extending other Blogs and web based communities through inspiration, “word of mouth,” and cross-links to other posts or articles. One instance where Blogs have affected society beyond the computer is with the
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog where the Obama campaign invested in the online communities inspiring “change” for his Presidential election. Also, read Nate Silver’s blog, fivethirtyeight.com.

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