A trend is something that appears to be happening but is in fact an illusion. All we know is what has happened; what will happen is mere speculation. Even what is happening is shrouded in mystery because it takes time to record and interpret observations. This doesn’t present a problem if history is what you are interested in, but trends are used mostly to pronounce on current affairs or to predict future ones Trends in high places
The Blog, The Press, The Media: I Need My Blogging Fix
Publishers are starting to take notice of bloggers, the art of keeping an online Web log.
Blogs are being both packaged up into books as well as getting bloggers noticed in the publishing world.Some publishers say the more a blogger gets noticed on the Web, the more they want to publish their works. An associate editor at Riverhead Books says blogging can really help writers find their voice, a key element in a saleable book.
• Bloggers Getting Publishing Attention [ Stephanie Klein's To Blog Or Not To Blog ; We're All In The Same Gang Your blog is like a pedestrian walkway: no traffic ]
• · IT'S addictive. There's compassion. There's want. There's misery. Ms. Balossini, 28, an executive secretary from Prospect Park, N.J., wasn't describing a hot summer beach read but a blog about the trysts, triumphs and heartaches of a young New York City woman named Stephanie Klein Reader, I Dated Him ; Greek tragedy
• · · Ashes blog: First and Final Tests ; Almost every person in Melbourne is caught on surveillance cameras at least 100 times a day. Pretty soon, cameras will be like smoke detectors: They'll be everywhere State of Surveillance
• · · · MY|Blog for Pocket PC ; Internet phenomena. Memes Top 10 Web fads
• · · · · Journalist fired for sexy blog ; James Snell is Experimenting with Atom feeds ; A blog is much better at tearing things down people, careers, brands than it is at building them up A Blogging Revolution? 'Give Me a Break'
• · · · · · In the era of homeland security, public safety, and sediments of lessened privacy, more and more public video surveillance and public web cameras are appearing on our street corners. They are protecting us, they are monitoring us, some cameras around Parliament Houses entertain us Cities opening more video surveillance eyes ; Video surveillance questioned