One-Stop Site for Blogs Offered

A new Boston website aims to bring order to the tens of millions of weblogs proliferating online and provide one-stop shopping for overwhelmed Internet surfers. The site, Gather.com, positions itself as a kind of eBay for online writers and their readers — a gathering spot for musings and discussions on everything from wine and computers to fitness and spirituality.

[Another interesting development in the continued maturation of blogging and online communication services. Here’s the sentence from the article that made it all make sense to me:

“He [Tom Gerace, Founder & CEO] sees Gather less as a mere host for bloggers than as a social networking site, like teenage blogger favorite MySpace.com, but for an older and more sophisticated audience.”

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you’ll know that MySpace.com is *THE* site to be on if you are between the ages of 12 and 30-something. A MySpace-like site (in terms of the easy social connections that can be made) targeted at the 35 and older crowd may be hugely successful. –TG]

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