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Are Blogs As Doomed As Newspapers?

By Ryan Tate, 11:30 PM on Sun Aug 24 2008, 1,637 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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"While 72 percent of the children online belonged to a social networking site (usually MySpace), 60 percent of them said they rarely or never read blogs." [Times]

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