Web Log. Say this three times fast, and you know where “blog” came from.
You’ve heard of blogs and bloggers, so here’s a quiz.
Blogs let you:
a) run off at the mouth about whatever you want
b) share information informally and get feedback
c) build a community of experts
d) all of the above
Yeah, it’s (d). You can blab ad infinitum into cyberspace, and technically the entire net world can read your rant – if they can find it, and find it interesting. But because it allows commentary, and because it’s easy to link to other pages and blogs, you can use a blog to get feedback and become part of a network of experts. That’s you, by the way.
Tony Karrer (http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/), at DevLearn 2007, made the interesting observation that writing a blog forces you to crystallize your own thinking, and to focus on what is interesting and relevant. Ok, I’ll try, I really will.
So, I could use a wiki to put information out there about Web 2.0, but in this case I’m using a blog. I’m not going to say a whole lot more about blogs, you’re reading one now, so you’re in the conversation. 30 seconds from now you could have your own: http://www.blogspot.com/. One suggestion: have something to say first…
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Great to see this!
It's also important not to forget that at its core a blog is a simplified web publishing system that lets you not only do the things you list but also to integrate and exchange information with a wide variety of other systems.
On my own blog, for example, I display RSS feeds from my own blog, feeds from del.icio.us, data from web based databases that I maintain (DabbleDB), and "mindmaps" created using the MindMeister tool.
Ten years ago such applications would have been impossible without hiring a programmer.
Dennis McDonald
http://www.ddmcd.com
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