Blogging, the new Information Medium?

In my first entry, Blog 0, I mentioned that one of my goals in creating this blog is to explore how blogging affects the cyber-world and life in general. Some thoughts from TDavid at MakeYouGoHmm.com in his blog “Your mother wears army boots” caught my attention. TDavid was having trouble getting any response from ZDnet on an e-mail he sent them, so he decided to blog about it. Apparently, search engines alerted ZDnet to their slightly negative on-line exposure, and prompted an almost immediate response (alas, in the negative). But TDavid made the point that perhaps e-mail is a broken system. It’s easy to ignore, because it is easy for it to get lost in SPAM filters or just among the Inbox clutter. Blogs are more permanent, public, and searchable. With Google and others tuning up search engines to new heights of performance, it also becomes a more instantaneous and global form of communication. Who knows what more unified forms blogging may evolve into. Perhaps some variant will become the communication form of choice for the future. If only we can kill splogging.

Secure, private blogs would be a more reliable and permanent forum for intra-corporate or inter-corporate communications. Perhaps some corporations are already doing this?