Is blogging the next Friendster?

shac has jumped on the blog-wagon now.

So is this just a fad? No, definitly not. Blogging has some qualities which will make it an enduring technology like we’ve seen happen with IM.

• Blogging is easy – The whole phenomenon has really taken off with the advent of user-friendly yet flexible systems bring one-click publishing to even the technical neophite. Accessible technology is explosive technology.
• Ease of use brings fresh content – It’s amazing how much more willing I am to drop a fresh entry on my blog than to go and edit any HTML source. I’m planning right now to replace my main page with a redirect to this blog, and move the “content” over to the right; and to do the same with many other informational pages both here and at work. No-one likes stale sites.
• There’s a community aspect – With commenting and trackbacks, it’s possible to build a fertile community of friends exchanging thoughts and ideas. A good RSS aggregator would let me keep tabs on my friends updates in one fell swoop.Keeping community — according to each member’s schedule — is appealing.
• Blogs are interesting – Well, not all of them. But I do find myself going back to certain blogs over and over because I really am interested in what those people have to say. There are a lot of interesting writers out there who aren’t published, and better yet, they tend to only blog when they’ve got something new to say. I can’t stand reading a majority of the published pieces out there which seem to be nothing more than filler for lack of real news. Blog entries are event-driven instead of deadline-driven

And if you still don’t believe me, go out and count how many teen blogs there are out there…