A glimpse of the past 4 OF 4

By 2002, blog takes its new forms by covering and shaping every story of the society. Blogging became a medium to distribute news, providing important information to the public. During the tsunami in December of 2004, blogs such as Medecins Sans Frontieres played an important role as a news source. It uses the SMS technology to report affected part in Southern India and Sri Lanka. Blogs like Gulfsails and Interdictor helped share information during the Katrina Hurricane in August of 2005.

Then, in January of 2005, Ben Trott, Jason Calacanis, Peter Rojas, Robert Scoble. Jonathan Schwartz, Xeni Jardin, and Mena Trott were dubbed by Fortune magazine as bloggers that business groups “could not ignore”.