Comments on: 53 million blogs by 2006, will anyone care anymore?

By: guillermo wechsler

guillermo wechsler — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:06:56 +0000

I am extremelly novice in blogs and bloggings. What makes this tech interesting to me is the possibility to support new practices of collaboration more aking with the global community we live in today. It has the chance to bring some anarchy to an extremelly organized world of mass media, politics, PR or public image. If the anarchy is strong enough and its last enough to force as to construct new bridges and to cultivate new ways of living together, it will become relevant , alive and dynamic. Maybe it will decay, but its decay will not be related with the novelty factor, but with the failure or success in creating the space for new forms of social convivencia to emerge.

As usual

By: Piaras

Piaras — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:05:03 +0000

Yeah but in terms of positioning or the extremes Scoble harps on about it, blogging will only have so much of an impact before it becomes a standard technique like any other.

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:02:58 +0000

I think you’ve a fairly one sided view of blogging … it’s not just for coporations to get new customers, or people like you and me reading - if we’re never going to be customers. That only happens now because it’s new.

Take the logistics example you use above - there’s no problem with UPS, FEDEX, BAX, etc. etc. having a blog - it’s just like a web site : it will be a tool for existing customers as much, and more so, than it is for prospects (logistics companie don’t really do sales on-line).

So I doubt it will implode, but rather be a standard tool like a web site (and hopefully RSS!)