BLOGGING: Friend or Foe?
 

Hi Everyone,

Every article nowadays seems to highlight blogging. Blogging is IN right now while personally I am still trying to get used to it.

Anyhow, I find the articles on blogging really interesting. For example, blogging in the past has caused people to be fired based on the fact that the employees either revealed too much about the company in a personal "complaint" the blogger was making. The other case fired a woman who posed in a Delta uniform (she was working for Delta at the time) in a "sexy" pose in one of her blogs.

Check out this article in particular, it talks about how blogging got some people arrested in parts of other countries where freedom of speech is not so accepted. Even in the U.S blogging has received some eye-opening negativity.

http://www.pimpcafe.com/article2/art...p?article=3188

And to add to that, San Francisco is now regulating political blogs (charging tax, etc), and another big news article on an American blog breaching a canadian publication ban...
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Toront...81891-sun.html

personally, I think blogging is a fad that's already at it's peak...
it's fun.. but a lot of people are in it for the wrong reasons, and they'll eventually determine that it's a lot of work, with little reward :)

If it is a "fad" CNN, Microsoft, Yahoo, and many large mainstream companies have paid a ton for some code that will be useless... Personally I see both sides, yes it could be a fad and go away into the night... OR I can also see it replacing message boards and a few other things that can take advantage of the RSS feeds and XML capabilities.. Just my cent and a half.. :2 cents:

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