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Bryan Caplan  
PERMANENT LINK | APRIL 7, 2005

The Blogging Meme

Bryan Caplan
Academic Self-selection... A Little Evidence I'm Wrong Ab...

The term "blog" was coined in 1999, and it now gets 105,000,000 google hits. Compare that to "democracy," which only gets 43,800,000.

Wikipedia provides a fascinating and thorough discussion.

CATEGORIES: Economic History


COMMENTS (1 to date)
Carodozo Bozo writes:

1. What a blog is must be defined and discussed, for it a new meme. Most people operate with the idea of democracy already ingrained. It is often assumed. (Especially in countries which speak English and publish web paged)

2. Blogs only exist online. Democracy does not.

Posted April 7, 2005 9:04 PM
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