Her phenomena is chronicled by Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZoRX3CMeao&feature=player_embedded
All of these media serve different purposes, and she has used all of them adroitly.
I am now attempting to use blogging as a way to say more and not bog down the other services. #FB has 600 million users, and Twitter is the quickest way to follow thought-leaders, however, the blogosphere is where thoughts are hashed out in depth.
It is like 9/11 launching texting (for me it was the Hurricane Rita evacuation). The texting channel is now more relevant than email.
Blogging is just as relevant as a newspaper page. How many youngsters have ever noticed the black newsprint film on the surface of their fingers. Newspapers may not be dead, but their writing is no longer relevant.
People all around the world have the ability to look up the topic about which their passion has caused them to get online and look up something. (www.technorati.com)
The internet allows people to be self-advocates with what they really want to know. Relevancy is the key. From Syria to Seattle, the blogs people trust are the ones they visit. Why would I trust the NY Times, given their track record? They have been rated as the most liberally slanted news source of all major newspapers.
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/06/16/book-liberal-media-distorts-news-bias
My intent in starting The New Rostra is using a blogging platform just like Cicero stood on the rostra near the Forum, in the public square, except my writing will be about all sorts of things, hopefully some of which are relevant. This blog is also a way that will force me to write. Creative writing is a skill that must be practiced like a sport, and I hope to post some of that as well. Here's to relevancy!
writing tips from another blogger:
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