Readership of the online journals known as blogs (short for web logs) grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the United States presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released on Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the US said in November they read blogs.
Readership of the online journals known as blogs (short for web logs) grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the United States presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released on Sunday. Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the US said in November they read blogs.
Hackers have broken into some of the world’s most powerful computer clusters in recent weeks in an apparently coordinated cyber attack targetting research and academic institutions. Although officials sought on Wednesday to play down the seriousness of the threats, some security experts warned that such a break-in could potentially enable a serious attack on the internet.
When John Young heard a radio interviewer ask whether a song was pastiche, he didn’t grab a dictionary. He typed an approximation into Google to get the word’s spelling and meaning. When Young, a design consultant in Whittier, California, gets new clients, he ”googles” them to see if they pay their bills.
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/ 21 January 2003
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