What are the most popular online activities? If you were to pose this question 100 random people at your local super market, chances are that 90 of your answers would include social media, online gaming, internet video, or email. However, among those four popular activities only two of them — email and sharing videos — would be included among the top ten.

While email is the second most common online activity, sharing online video barely cracks the top ten. Despite Americans’ seemingly insatiable appetite for social media, gaming, and videos, searching for info online remains the number one online activity among web users over aged 13 and up. Whether they seek their general information and random facts via online articles, blogger news, or corporate news websites, it usually does not take more than a minute or two for them to find their answers. In fact, most of them can find specific info online in a matter of secon

If you are anything like me, you have an almost insane need to stay on top of the news. I love it when my local news station runs a banner and announces a “breaking news” story. Now, I have to admit that this so called breaking news is usually some story that is, in my opinion, not really “breaking.” I reserve this label for true breaking news, such as natural disasters and such, not a car accident on the freeway.

Many of us who love the news read or watch all sorts of news sources including online news outlets, and the traditional print publications. Online news sources, however, seem to be able to deliver the news much faster.

I can remember during a few of the top news stories of the past year or so, online news was constantly updating news stories such as the shootings in Connecticut or Colorado. Online news stories, and even blogging news sites were updated on an almost instantaneous basis.

These online news sources do make me realize that the face of news has changed. It ha

Bloggers are everywhere these days. Everybody and their cat has a blog, or had a blog at some point. While many people are turning to microblogging sites such as Tumblr and Twitter for their news, the good ol’ traditional weblog is still alive and well. There are still a large amount of people today that wonder how they can start their own blog. Whether they have a passion for a certain topic, or just a passion for writing, there are plenty of people out there who still want to blog. Here are a few tips on starting your own blog.

If you decide to start a blog, you need to find a niche. There are way too many already established blogs that write news articles on various broadly defined topics. If you decide to blog about a very general category such as “technology news” or “sports news” you will find yourself having to compete with the bigger, more well-establshed websites out there. No intrepid sports blogger wants to go up