While sitting down in my Dad's little office over here on the East Coast this morning, I started to try and hammer through my emails, class readings, and impending homework and began to think about the impact of blogging. I myself am a self-attested non-veteran blogger and I could only think of the similarities of blogging to newsgroups and forums. I have always liked using newsgroups and forums for their mechanical nature and quickness of getting through topics. However, blogging seems to be more of a perpetutual stream of thoughts that can quickly take a turn down a street you didn't even want to go on. Understandably, you can do searches for information on blog sites, but what if you don't know exactly what you want or are randomly viewing? I guess, I'm old-skool but having newsgroups in my email programs is pretty slick and efficient for me.
Do you think there will be time and space in people's lives for both? Or are newsgroups and forums fading out of practice? What is the demographic for blogging and can it sustain the maturation of society?
Another topic I am interested in is the quality of blogging. Just as the traditional internet has become diluted by poor quality sites and scams, I can see blogging following the same footsteps. How are blogg sites going to set best practices and standards to maintain some integrity? Are they going to have to move to other domains to curb poor quality as many companies are doing with www2?
psst... an example: spell check didn't recognize blogger!
