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Sunday, July 13, 2003
Blogs and Websites will Merge
Don Park offers this thought: "Blogs will fade away within two years. What we know now as blogs will not be recognized by web users of tommorrow, not as blogs, but as websites. Website technologies and blogging technologies will converge into one. People take it for granted that webpages can be edited using their browser. People will also take it for granted that any webpages can be subscribed to with a single-click. Web browsers will be changed to support all this and more like highlighting of changes." I tend to agree - I see websites comprised of Wikis for the outline (site map) and the blog format for the various inside pages (posts or entries). The key need is for these pages (and therefore, the website) to be updated easily. That is not the case with most of the websites maintained by small businesses - they will drive the shift. A couple of the comments on Don's post concur. Dave Winer: "Agree one hundred percent. That is UserLand's bet. That's why both Radio and Manila are complete CMS's and do so much more than weblogs." Jim: "Small companies that are currently coding company websites will give way to writers and graphic artists since the putting up a website will no longer be such a complicated job. The questions remains as to whether these content producers are in house or outsourced."
Phone Booth - the Movie
I am not much of a movie watcher, so it was with some surprise that I found myself watching "Phone Booth". The premise almost defies the logic of making a movie - a person shown talking in a New York phone booth for the entire duration of the movie. Its worth watching once - just to get an idea of how innovative the human mind can be (full credit to the creators of the movie for coming up with something different).
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What blogs have actually done is this: They have brought 'website/webpage awareness' amongst non-tech people. I am surprised to see SO many people blogging away on the Net and most of them from media/content/non-tech background.
Earlier, people didn't know/want to how to ftp and other geek stuff. Blogs have made it so much easier for everyone to publish that no one (esp non-tech users) thinks of blogs as webpages/websites.
As I have commented earlier, I dont really believe in the future of personal blogs. I only believe in the technology making publishing easier.
Posted by AJi agree with you and AJ's views.
#your post: we already see people who have moved to movable type and use their blog as a personal homepage or website. soon there will be technology which will make publishing on websites easier so as to blur the lines between blogs and websites.
# AJ's comment: Blogging HAS brought brought about "web awareness" among the non-geek junta. look at me... i learnt html from blogspot (thanks to its many links) and now can tinker around with my templates etc. having only uses MS frontpage earlier and flicking html code from existing websites, i consider this a huge benefit. I'm sure there are more of my types around.
Posted by dekianother observation, majority of the bloggers are either journalists or ppl who work in IT.
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