http://www.jarche.com/2009/08/blogs-social-medias-home-base/ Life in Perpetual Beta Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jarche.com/2009/08/blogs-social-medias-home-base/comment-page-1/#comment-271513 Harold Jarche Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:54:33 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2765#comment-271513 Many blogs already do that, but that's the nature of any information medium - it gets absorbed by the powerful. This blog is still free :) Many blogs already do that, but that’s the nature of any information medium – it gets absorbed by the powerful. This blog is still free

]]> http://www.jarche.com/2009/08/blogs-social-medias-home-base/comment-page-1/#comment-271510 Alison DeLory Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:42:36 +0000 http://www.jarche.com/?p=2765#comment-271510 You make some salient points. It's nice to have a place on-line to call home. Blogging, for me, is satisfying in that I have no editor directing what I write about. I take it seriously, however, weighing what I want to say with what I think will be useful to people, or amusing, etc. The idea of the 4Cs is interesting as long as a 5th C doesn't rear its head: conform. If blogs become like newspaper editorials, or are used to push agendas or products without transparency, then they will have outlived their usefulness. You make some salient points. It’s nice to have a place on-line to call home. Blogging, for me, is satisfying in that I have no editor directing what I write about. I take it seriously, however, weighing what I want to say with what I think will be useful to people, or amusing, etc. The idea of the 4Cs is interesting as long as a 5th C doesn’t rear its head: conform. If blogs become like newspaper editorials, or are used to push agendas or products without transparency, then they will have outlived their usefulness.

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