"As long as one keeps searching, the answers come."
- Joan Baez, American folk singer
Recently, I cited a column written by John Dvorak in which he predicted the demise of the personal weblog. Now Cade Metz has written "Take Back the Net," which appears in PC Mag's December 30 issue. It takes the opposite view.
"With blogs, short for Web logs, anyone can now stream ideas onto a Web page in a matter of seconds. With wikis, named after the Hawaiian word for quick, entire groups can easily post and edit pages, freeing the users from the constraints of discussion groups. With RSS, anyone can easily syndicate material across the Web and alert readers to updated content on his or her site."
It's an interesting way to spend 30 minutes and will provide you with ratings on several blogging services, including BlogSpot, Xanga and TypePad. Wikis, which I'd never heard of, are also rated. They are simple web-sites that are built by all members working together. Blogs are web-based diaries. Wikis are web-based bulletin boards. His favorite wiki service is EditMe.
Finally, Metz talks about RSS (Really Simple Syndication), which our AOL Journals provide. RSS allows a blogger to distribute recent posts to readers. I'd like to find out how this works.
I continue to be amazed by all the new ways we have to communicate with each other. As more people "tune in," I believe we'll become closer. That has to be a good thing.
1 comment:
I agree that our new mode of communication will bring us closer together. We all have a chance to read the whole statement of the writer and hopefully understand where they are coming from.
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