In 2006, the research group Gartner made a very surprising prediction: they announced that the total number of bloggers would peak at 100 million in mid 2007. Gartner reported that over 200 million people have tried blogging but then quit. Later, in April, 2007, BusinessWeek reported that Gartner’s prediction seemed to be panning out. With…
Read MoreThe New Poll Capsule
Two weeks ago, we released a new feature that enables writers to create interactive polls. More than a thousand polls have already been published. Polls seem to be useful because they involve the reader but don’t require as much effort as posting a comment. The most popular topic for polls on Hubpages right now is…
Read MoreHubPages as a Research Paper 2.0?
As the official first post of the HubPages blog, I figured that I would throw out some thoughts that I have been talking to a few people about the past couple weeks or so. These thoughts in particular revolve around the ways that students are taught in schools, specifically college, how it hasn’t changed in…
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