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10 Things We Learned About Blogs

I started this blog back in May of this year. My first post was an attempt to learn the answer to "What is a blog anyway?". Tired of the standard "anything you want it to be" answer, I set out on my quest. I posted as much as I could, maybe not as much as I should have but I even posted during hurricanes. Now, more than 7 months after starting, I am still trying to answer that same question. Looking for alternate opinions, I asked several member of my family to check this site out and report back. "What's the point?" and "Why would you put such things on the internet?" are valid questions to which I have no real answers. Yet, I see other blogs with similar thoughts and ideas. Most blogs just march confidently on without ever considering the question.
Then comes this article "10 Things We Learned About Blogs" where the same question is in the background. I found it in the blogger news section of the dashboard page. (Click the "Blogger" button at the top left corner of this web page). The article doesn't offer an answer to "what is a blog?" but it does talk about what results can be found from 10 (or more) blogs.
Maybe that's all it is, just a medium that we still need to figure out. Like writing a song or creating a poem. Some new way of communicating to be sorted out. Will blogging be as popular as television turned out or will it go the way of passing fads? Only time will tell.
However, I no longer feel bad about not knowing the answer. In fact, I think I need to do more research.
See you again in seven months?
;)

posted by Kev @ 12/26/2004 01:00:00 AM