The blatant message BlogWorld Expo 2008 attendees received was that new media is here to stay. Technology, when embraced, can open doors for the average person to share their story, their thoughts, and their messages to the entire world. And it will only continue to improve and revolutionize media as we know it.

The other message is: everyone and their butler has a goddamn iPhone.

This was an unusual development. Sure, the false preconceived notion that all bloggers are basement-dwelling troglodytes is a false one. Only the people who I think are stupid on the Internet fit this stereotype. Rather, most mainstream bloggers own personal laptops so they can type up their posts while on the go. (This one, for example? 'Twas written at Vegas's McCarran International Airport, who knows how to treat hungover tourists well enough to say, "Hey, we may have all your money, but at least you can still have free Wi-Fi.")

But last weekend, I would see little cliques of three, four, or six people break out their glassy-faced phones and share with each other what applications they downloaded, what generation of hardware they upgraded to, and just how much this little device has changed their life. It made me realize that, while I have the body and birth certificate of a 25-year-old, I am actually 70 years old in iYears. Any Frisbees they throw my way I would probably keep for no other reason but spite and/or phone envy.

In BC's daddy company Technorati's State of the Blogosphere presentation partly shared last Saturday morning, they laid out some pretty snazzy stats about today's bloggers and podcasters. Lost in the pie charts and histograms was that 98 percent of bloggers owns one of those fucking iPhones.

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