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]]> http://desolance.wordpress.com/2006/01/13/why-do-people-blog/#comment-23 Personalize Media » Big ‘Blog’ Brother Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:27:03 +0000 http://desolance.wordpress.com/2006/01/13/why-do-people-blog/#comment-23 [...] My view is that many blogs are vanity publishing, by people feeling cut off from remote family, friends and niche interest groups, and for various other social reasons such as personalizing the internet, keeping in with their peers, a big area to be further explored by me sure - “why people blog?”, here a couple of random links - personal view, academic view. Whatever the reason one could call blogs ‘viewpoints, ideas, journals’ in the public domain. The equivalent of giving your opinion at a generic ’speakers corner’ for anyone and everyone who is passing to hear. So why can’t people use those opinions to make money (or academics to cite or use for research for their ‘original’ papers)?. Sure they can for the moment, but like any commercial layer imposed on something that is organic and democratised, it will be alterred, corrupted, as the electron microscope inherently changes and even destroys the thing it is looking. But there is the good side to the ‘buzz capturers’ Hewlett-Packard, the computer and technology company, lately has picked up from cyberspace that customers really hate leaving their computers at shops for repairs; far better, the company learned, is having technicians repair the machines in homes. “What that makes us do is that when we think about investing more in that area, we say, yes, it’s positive to do that,” said Rickey Ono, business strategy manager for HP. “We drill into the individual comments and it helps to justify our expenditure on in-home repair.” [...] [...] My view is that many blogs are vanity publishing, by people feeling cut off from remote family, friends and niche interest groups, and for various other social reasons such as personalizing the internet, keeping in with their peers, a big area to be further explored by me sure – “why people blog?”, here a couple of random links – personal view, academic view. Whatever the reason one could call blogs ‘viewpoints, ideas, journals’ in the public domain. The equivalent of giving your opinion at a generic ’speakers corner’ for anyone and everyone who is passing to hear. So why can’t people use those opinions to make money (or academics to cite or use for research for their ‘original’ papers)?. Sure they can for the moment, but like any commercial layer imposed on something that is organic and democratised, it will be alterred, corrupted, as the electron microscope inherently changes and even destroys the thing it is looking. But there is the good side to the ‘buzz capturers’ Hewlett-Packard, the computer and technology company, lately has picked up from cyberspace that customers really hate leaving their computers at shops for repairs; far better, the company learned, is having technicians repair the machines in homes. “What that makes us do is that when we think about investing more in that area, we say, yes, it’s positive to do that,” said Rickey Ono, business strategy manager for HP. “We drill into the individual comments and it helps to justify our expenditure on in-home repair.” [...]

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