International Law

Blogging 2.0

The always opinionated Duncan Riley opines on Blogging 2.0:

Blogging 2.0

If blogging 1.0 was about enabling the conversation on each blog, blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services. The conversation has matured and no longer is it acceptable to believe that as a content owner you hold exclusive domain over conversations you have started. Users/ readers today demand more than a conversation on one site, and blogging 2.0 facilitates this.

Acceptance

I?ll be the first to admit that accepting the new paradigm of blogging 2.0 isn?t easy. I started this site still firmly entrenched in the thoughts of blogging 1.0, having not run my own large blog in two years, but likewise having been schooled in blogging since it first came to prominence in 2002-2003. I?ve come to the conclusion that what is happening in blogging 2.0 is something that I can?t stop nor change, so it is something I?m going to fully embrace, for all the inherent risk part of me is telling me it represents. I accept that others will rally against this: it?s human nature to do so, but no amount of protest will change the evolving reality of blogging 2.0. My advice to others: embrace it, or miss out.

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Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on May 19, 2008 (boomark / email).