You know a web trend has reached a high pitch of popularity when AOL starts including it in its basic software. But can blogs be truly mainstream?
Last week the net giant, which has 34 million customers, announced that it would be including web logging, or blogging, tools in AOL 9, the next version of the software people use to log on to their AOL account.
Instead of calling them blogs, however, it will call them AOL Journals, partly because a survey revealed that many users found the word “blog” confusing. AOL users are not alone in being confused about blogs, what they are for and the impact they might have.
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