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OT: When folk don't understand weblogs

Ever tried to talk to someone about how cool Blogs are only for them to dismiss them, well it happens to me a lot. I often get "why use Blogs when you can use Newsgroups/IRC etc etc" or "the content is not very good". So I have decided to let Blogs speak for them selves, the day will come when they will be big time!!

Posted: Jul 15 2003, 05:55 PM by astopford | with 3 comment(s)

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Kenneth LeFebvre said:

Yeah, I think that day will come when content searching and organizing is better.

I've often told my peers that I think blogs are the tip of the next iceberg... their eyes glaze over and they look for an excuse to go do something else!
# July 15, 2003 8:18 AM

HumanCompiler said:

Unlike talking to someone or chatting with someone, blogs are permanent and a place in history...there's a lot to be said about that.
# July 15, 2003 9:06 AM

Dumky said:

There is so many forms of communication and communities: mailing lists, newsgroups, irc, forums, blogs, wikis,...
All have different models and advantages. I will be glad when more appear, but on the other hand I hope for some consolidation (not every variant merits a name or fame) or at least integration. Integration would mean you can have a conversation over different mediums and still have a "smart" tool display it to you as a conversation.

The one problem I see with blogs is that you don't always want to read somebody's full blog: only some topics may interest you. How to balance having so many sources of information and avoiding information overload or spam?

Cheers,
Dumky
# July 18, 2003 11:35 AM