Saturday, January 15, 2005
Blog adoption process
Since blogs are now going mainstream someone needs to formalize the blog adoption process. I was talking to Cote about this.
I think the blog adoption process is something like this:
Step 1: What are these blog things? Didn't Howard Dean lose? Why would anyone want to write an online Journal? Is an atom feed something we learned about it in Physics? Damn, these Internet fads...
Step 2: Wow, I just discovered blog XYZ. I am really interested in the topic covered on blog XYZ. I never knew there was so much information available on this topic. This blog thing is interesting.
Step 3: Turns out several of my distance friends have blogs. Wow, this is really cool, I can keep up with them now. It's fun to see what they are doing. I don't talk to them as much as I should but I feel like I know them better. It's weird the Internet has become more personal to me.
Step 4: Turns out there were actually a whole bunch of blogs on topic XYZ and I found even more people that I know have a blog. All the blogs were really good but I was having hard time keeping up with all of them. Someone told me about Bloglines and other aggreators. Thank god for Atom and RSS, I can read twice the sites in half the time.
Step 4: I only read sites that have an RSS/Atom feeds. It's the only way to go. I really don't have time to write a blog but I have a found a bunch of links that I think others will like. I am going to create a blogger account just so I can post some links. It will only take a few minutes.
Step 5: You know I was reading some other site the other day and that site had no idea what they were talking about. I am going to go ahead and write up some of my thoughts on my blog in response. My friend called the other day and I told him about my blog. He thought it was cool and he likes that he can keep up with what I am going.
Step 6: You know I have a lot of ideas, I think I am going to put them on my blog. I was telling my friends they all need to get some blogs going too. I want to keep up with them and blogs are starting to replace email as my primary way to discuss things.
You are now officially part of the blogsphere.
¶ 1:33 PM
I think the blog adoption process is something like this:
Step 1: What are these blog things? Didn't Howard Dean lose? Why would anyone want to write an online Journal? Is an atom feed something we learned about it in Physics? Damn, these Internet fads...
Step 2: Wow, I just discovered blog XYZ. I am really interested in the topic covered on blog XYZ. I never knew there was so much information available on this topic. This blog thing is interesting.
Step 3: Turns out several of my distance friends have blogs. Wow, this is really cool, I can keep up with them now. It's fun to see what they are doing. I don't talk to them as much as I should but I feel like I know them better. It's weird the Internet has become more personal to me.
Step 4: Turns out there were actually a whole bunch of blogs on topic XYZ and I found even more people that I know have a blog. All the blogs were really good but I was having hard time keeping up with all of them. Someone told me about Bloglines and other aggreators. Thank god for Atom and RSS, I can read twice the sites in half the time.
Step 4: I only read sites that have an RSS/Atom feeds. It's the only way to go. I really don't have time to write a blog but I have a found a bunch of links that I think others will like. I am going to create a blogger account just so I can post some links. It will only take a few minutes.
Step 5: You know I was reading some other site the other day and that site had no idea what they were talking about. I am going to go ahead and write up some of my thoughts on my blog in response. My friend called the other day and I told him about my blog. He thought it was cool and he likes that he can keep up with what I am going.
Step 6: You know I have a lot of ideas, I think I am going to put them on my blog. I was telling my friends they all need to get some blogs going too. I want to keep up with them and blogs are starting to replace email as my primary way to discuss things.
You are now officially part of the blogsphere.
¶ 1:33 PM
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Unfortunately, we are still early adopters. I'm not sure blogging will become as widespread as email for a long time. There are a lot of people who have "big brother" fears from many directions, and it may take a complete generation shift to fully realize the advantages.
Maybe. I think a few things are here to stay though. I think RSS/Atom and aggreators are all going to be around for awhile. Most major news and media sites are supporting RSS/Atom and I see this groing.
Also niche oriented blogs like engadget and many others are here to stay. That's all about exploiting the long tail that everyone is talking about.
As to your point about privacy and big bother concerns, time will tell. Email and instant messaging both had their share of drawbacks but over time things got worked out. I suspect this will happen with blogs over time as well. Hopefully, it will not take a full generation but your guess is as good mine.
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Also niche oriented blogs like engadget and many others are here to stay. That's all about exploiting the long tail that everyone is talking about.
As to your point about privacy and big bother concerns, time will tell. Email and instant messaging both had their share of drawbacks but over time things got worked out. I suspect this will happen with blogs over time as well. Hopefully, it will not take a full generation but your guess is as good mine.
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