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- Category: Software Development
- Posted On: 2/3/2005
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The Power of Blogs²
I avoided blogs when they first became popular simply because of the "craze". Developing internet software, I am one of the first to notice these things and one of the last to adopt them. I simply wouldn't have the time to adopt every new technology for the web that appears. But, us web developers do need to know about them all.
So, my blogging journey began last year, December 2004, right here on MSN Spaces. I didn't take much time in learning all of the ins-and-outs, but simply signed up for an MSN Space and a BlogSpot. I have been impressed with a Blog's flexibility, ease of use, general sense of "community information sharing", and power. It makes sense... Something so simple for people to use to communicate and reach each other. Paved Roads? Freeways? Phones? Satellites? Cell Phones? Radio? E-mail? Internet? Chat? Blog?
Most of you out there have no clue how to create a centered, 3-column, 4-row table with column headers and alternating row colors in HTML (no cheating with WYSISYG editors) and I'll bet you don't care either. No, humanity, once comfortable with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, is generally concerned with making repetive tasks less complicated. Watch marketing use target words like "hassle-free" and "stress-free".
Where am I going with all this? Simply pointing out that Blogs have changed our internet for good. Searches now regularly return Blog entries as valid results (which could be a bad thing for valid research). There are more and more tools for Blogging being release all the time. Blogging has developed new breeds of search engines that even automate how you can notify them when you have made updates to your Blog (pinging)! TAKE NOTE SEARCH ENGINE PROVIDERS (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc.) - Adopt a form of this utility to receive notifications and drastically reduce the need to regularly index the many unchanged pages, providing better search performance for everyone! I'm not forgetting the many thousands of other amazing ideas out there like link-lists, etc. But, the Blog stands above all the rest.
- Category: Software Development
- Posted On: 2/3/2005
- Views: 2,856