2006: HuffPo and BuzzFeed Blur the Lines

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2006: HuffPo and BuzzFeed Blur the Lines Between Blogs and News
While some had been looking at blogs and taking them as seriously as they the largest news outlets for years by this point, 2006 brought a new age with the launches of Huffington Post and BuzzFeed.

What, really, is the difference between a blog and a news site? These platforms had afghanistan phone number material look and feel of a mainstream news site, but glancing through some of the “articles,” many were written as editorial content, fun listicles and explorations into other creative blog post ideas writers wanted to try out with their growing blog audiences. These sites also mastered the art of teaching their journalists how to write a headline that’s designed to capture reader attention.

The side effect is that the distinction between fact and opinion became more blurred after this point, which is a trend that’s continued today in some corners of the Internet.

2007: Microblogging Becomes a Thing
In late 2006, ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse suggested to his readers that they keep their blog post length short enough to allow the average reader to get through it in about a minute and a half. It was also around this time that a little known blogger, Tim Ferriss started his blog to drum up press for his upcoming book, The 4-Hour Workweek.

History of Blogging What Tim Ferriss' Blog Looked Like
If the average person reads 200 or 250 words per minute, this would mean that the ideal blog post during this period of time may have been somewhere between 300 and 400 words. That’s pretty short by today’s standards. But, if short was good, then ultra-short must have been better, right?

A new era in the history of blogging, called microblogging, had begun.

At this point, Twitter (then called Twttr) had been humming along for about a year, but it finally took off and became explosively popular in 2007. How much could you really say in 140 characters, (which was the limit at the time)? Enough, apparently, because the site is still wildly successful over a decade later.