Remove "blogs" from the headline?

It's definitely not about just blogging. The important part is that anyone can publish anything from anywhere at anytime. With a laptop, with a phone, with a watch...

It's not about blogs. It's about voices, consumption and interaction.

Think about "and" not "or" when looking at what's happened to blogs and media. Why am I reading BusinessWeek's blog/following you on Twitter instead of picking up a copy on the newsstand? Guess which one's more relevant? Most important, don't assume I (or those like me) will ever see the print article. Or which screen we'll use to see the online version.

Other than that, nothing's changed. ;-)

Tim, I agree, "and" is the operative word here, not "or." And we envisioned this piece from the get-go as an online production. That's the only place the story is still being read. However, if we come up with interesting stuff, no reason not to share it with the paper crowd.

Well is your aim to just update the particulars? Or write a wholly new article? I would posit that a strict update is a necessary first step.

Here's the annotated article, courtesy of fleck.

I'd be careful of going to heavy on that point of distinction blurring. I'm in the UK, write a blog (www.silverbrowonfood.com) and am interested in tech. I use twitter, tumblr etc but many people I know have no clue what they are. Still not much of a business tool overhere, which Facebook became about 6 mths ago.

Jon,
I think we're looking at a revision first. We'll see...

Information overload is a BIG problem, and I'm amazed how little that reality has registered with most people and with journalists and other media folks.

The answer isn't simply read less, because the availability of quality, specific and useful information (that you need or really want for your job, life, etc.) is exploding.

What's missing are powerful tools to help us manage this information in a convenient, non-redundant and timely manner.

Information is coming in - and in the case of bloggers, flickr users, etc. going out - from so many directions that organizing/integrating all that is going to become a big aspect of social networking, and computing/telecom in general, in the near future.

I wrote some more thoughts about this here:

Blogging, Web 2.0 & Info Overload

Blogging is great, however, the amount of information outweighs the usefulness of it. There needs to be a methodology or technology whereby we can receive pertinent information that doesn't waste our time.

"... the distinction between a blog search engine and a traditional one is growing meaningless."
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Sorry for the delayed comment, but I wanted to think about this a bit more thoughtfully before shooting from the hip.

I have written up a full blog post commenting on this point of the meaningfulness of the distinction between blog search engines and traditional Web search engines.

My challenge for you (or any reader):

Try finding my post using both a blog search engine (of your choice) and a traditional Web search engine (of your choice) and think about what the experience was like and then tell us about the distinctions or lack thereof and their meaning or lack thereof.

-- Jack Krupansky

Jack--

By design, blog search engines can search by date (well, Technorati doesn't, but Google does). The main web search engines, by contrast, have no standard mechanism for getting the published date of an online document, and hence they don't give that option.

Obviously, searching by published date (and, natch, last update) is desirable for all content.

On the other hand, the blog search collections are incomplete. Google only started collecting in earnest in summer 2005. Technorati and BlogPulse generally only keep the last 6 months of data.
see comparisons here.