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Blogs beat 'New York Times'

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Bloggers, listen up and rejoice: Blog penetration has been achieved! Huh? Before you start drifting off into a world of dirty fantasies, take a look at this chart: This chart shows Canada in the top position for "blog penetration". Simply put this means that 58.2% of internet users visited a site in the "blog category" in October 2006. Blogs, as the study concludes, have therefore gone mainstream. The Long Now Foundation, which specialises in long-term thinking and related bets, had the following bet running on its website: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.

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