[Sigia-l] Corporate blogs, again

[Adrian Howard]

On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 23:48 Europe/London, Listera wrote:

> "Beth Mazur" wrote:
>
>>> Of course, you do not need a blog to provide an RSS feed.
>>
>> True. But I'd say that blogs==RSS the same way that blogs==personal
>> and independent. Not necessarily something that is inherent, but
>> is more or less common use (or assumed).
>
> Truth be told, the only thing that tells me is that RSS is horribly
> underused outside the blogsphere.
[snip]

I'd say that's changing rapidly. Less than half of the sites in my 
aggregator could be classified as personal blogs. The rest are things 
like news, articles, reviews, changes from source control systems, 
updates from software repositories, recent changes from wikis, etc.

In the last year a large amount of the information that I used to get 
from mailing lists and regular website visits now comes via my 
aggregator. It also takes up less of my time.

Of course the raw number of personal blogs is always going to be vastly 
larger than the number of non-personal blogs - just like the vast 
number of personal websites outnumber those providing more general 
content. But I think RSS and related technologies have now escaped 
their personal blogging roots.

Cheers,

Adrian