"Few of the activities covered in this report have decreased in popularity for any age group, with the notable exception of blogging. Only half as many online teens work on their own blog as did in 2006, and Millennial generation adults ages 18-33 have also seen a modest decline—a development that may be related to the quickly-growing popularity of social network sites. At the same time, however, blogging’s popularity increased among most older generations, and as a result the rate of blogging for all online adults rose slightly overall from 11% in late 2008 to 14% in 2010. Yet while the act formally known as blogging seems to have peaked, internet users are doing blog-like things in other online spaces as they post updates about their lives, musings about the world, jokes, and links on social networking sites and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter."

pundits always talking about seth godin or steve jobs or tom friedman are misusing their megaphone by staying in tiny slice of reality/ideas

[The] fact that we suffer withdrawal when our publishing tool of choice goes down isn't just a symbol of our civilization's decline from meaning—it's an illustration of how much things have changed because of these new technologies that have democratized publishing walled off and balkanized publishing, creating a generation of dependents who haven't the faintest idea how to create their own website on their own server.

"Local high-tech incubators have seen a number of companies move to or expand on the West Coast in recent years to be closer to financing."