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From a humble beginning as ‘What’s New’ pages, blogs have arisen to become arguably the most popular online personal publishing platform on the Internet. Over the last few years blogs have come to the fore appearing not only in the news media but also in search engine results pages.
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Brady, M. (2005). Blogging: Personal Participation in Public Knowledge-Building on the Web. In: Participating in the Knowledge Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523043_15
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