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[edited by: ciml at 6:29 pm (utc) on Jan. 13, 2004]
I foresee continued efforts by Google to keep blogs in their place and not give their linkage patterns too much credit.
I think the opposite is true. Google, a company that is trying to give people information that appears to be important to other people, bought Blogger, a service that lets people say what's important to them.
And when RSS aggregation is an integral part of Windows (longhorn) we may see a quite remarkable shift in the nature of the web. Personal reputation scoring and so on will emerge as a major factor in the way our information gets passed around. And search itself will take on a different role. We'll look back at today's fun and games as an amusing antique.
After a good once over by Google my traffic has increased, my content has increased rediculously, and my frequency of getting crawled by all the big boy SEs has jumped as well. These are all good things.
The blog itself ties in well with the rest of the site and I've created an MT template which will display links to the five most recent entries on my home page (making crawling and link popularity a little easier to swallow). Various sections of my web site link to categories of my blog and I intend to pour some more fuel on the blogging fire in the near future.
The effect that I have experienced with blogs has also been quite favorable with the engines. The new posts get spidered pronto, but I have only ever used them as an addition to a site, never as the content managment software for the site.
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chessmaniac
Interesting point. A huge percentage of the people on the Internet is basically just interested in information. Rather than buying things from e-commerce sellers.
I am curious why no one has mentioned Grey Matter blogging software. It is free and seems to work quite well for me. I have not had any experience with MT, but after having read the posts here, I fear that I may be missing something by not using MT. Has anyone had experience to compare the two?
Greymatter is a very old product that is no longer being actively supported by its developer. It was great in its day, but its time has passed.
All of its data is stored in flat files, and rebuilds of large sites are very slow.
Interesting point. A huge percentage of the people on the Internet is basically just interested in information. Rather than buying things from e-commerce sellers.
Yep. What's interesting is how the two interact (personal opinion & ecomm). Before I make any major purchases now (online or off), I get information about the product both in terms of what others think of it and what ecomm sites are selling it for, etc. The more opinions, the better. The easier it is to put an opinion online, the more opinions there will be, etc. etc.
Anybody know of any books/articles about the psycho/sociological effect of the internet?
True. Those who do buy things on the Net also ask around for who is the most reliable seller, has the best quality, the best price, etc. The e-com sites aren't all just off in one corner of the Net by themselves, and the rest of the Net totally ignores their existence. Blogs make it easy for the Average Joe to put things on the WWW. When I got on the Internet in 1997, I figured putting up web pages was just for geeks with lots of technical know-how. A couple years later I got sick and tired of doing a cut and paste response to questions on Usenet that it occurred to me if I could figure out a way to put them on a web page, I could just post the URL and be done with it. I then realized even I could get my own domain name, and make it easy for people to find my stuff in search engines. I just didn't consider that I'd get hooked on this WWW and search engine thing. ;)
Blogs just make it so easy for just about anyone. No need to learn about using FTP clients, domain name servers, or even HTML basics. Just write and publish.
>Anybody know of any books/articles about the psycho/sociological effect of the internet?
Sounds like something interesting to search for. The Internet seems like a good subject for anthropologists to study.
