Comments on: The State of the Blogosphere http://www.josephyiptong.com/2006/08/09/the-state-of-the-blogosphere/ My existence in the virtual world Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: joseph http://www.josephyiptong.com/2006/08/09/the-state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-68 joseph Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:58:04 +0000 http://www.josephyiptong.com/2006/08/09/the-state-of-the-blogosphere/#comment-68 I am keen to anticipate the impact of blogging on our future life. I recommend you to read Malcom Gladwell thereon and the comments he got. Quite enlighting!http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/07/the_derivative_.html#comments I am keen to anticipate the impact of blogging on our future life. I recommend you to read Malcom Gladwell thereon and the comments he got. Quite enlighting!http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/07/the_derivative_.html#comments

]]> By: joseph http://www.josephyiptong.com/2006/08/09/the-state-of-the-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-67 joseph Wed, 09 Aug 2006 10:14:33 +0000 http://www.josephyiptong.com/2006/08/09/the-state-of-the-blogosphere/#comment-67 But blogs are having a greater impact on French society, said Jean-Michel Billaut, an adviser on Internet issues to BNP Paribas, the huge banking group. “The Minitel was a classic, centrally controlled and top-down creation of the French elite,” Mr. Billaut said. But blogs, since they are “embraced by ordinary people,” he said, “will flip the rigid power pyramid of French society.” As elsewhere, the grass-roots freedom of blogs is a problem for French companies as advocacy groups and skeptical consumers take strong views online, said Cyril Klein, marketing director of Scanblog, a blog-monitoring service in Paris. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/europe/30blogs.html?ex=1155268800&en=e0c8c118738444fe&ei=5070 But blogs are having a greater impact on French society, said Jean-Michel Billaut, an adviser on Internet issues to BNP Paribas, the huge banking group.

“The Minitel was a classic, centrally controlled and top-down creation of the French elite,” Mr. Billaut said. But blogs, since they are “embraced by ordinary people,” he said, “will flip the rigid power pyramid of French society.”

As elsewhere, the grass-roots freedom of blogs is a problem for French companies as advocacy groups and skeptical consumers take strong views online, said Cyril Klein, marketing director of Scanblog, a blog-monitoring service in Paris.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/world/europe/30blogs.html?ex=1155268800&en=e0c8c118738444fe&ei=5070

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