Just as I have installed this new application called BlogJet to blog more frequently and easily, one of the millions of scintillating (mind you, this word has been corrected by BlogJet Spell Checking feature ;-)) neurons in my brain lit up and inspired me to write this post. Just think of all the possible uses of blogs. Actually, it is nothing more than a web site but the fact that with so little efforts the information can be published and shared by anybody and everybody is very important and powerful. Consider a group of grads sharing a blog for keeping in touch with their batch-mates, consider a group of people interested in The Taj Mahal sharing little snippets about its history with each other, consider a blog for citizens in a city for sharing their problems, consider a movie blog where people post their reviews on different movies, consider people from all over the world sharing their thoughts with each other on some special topic of interest. The possibilities are limitless.
One might think, “What different is this than having forums on different topics?” I think blogging is much less complex and much more flexible than forums like phpbb. Blogging is much cheaper (free of cost, so to say) whereas forums need to be hosted on web servers. Configuring forums require a lot of skills and understanding whereas Blogging is really one button publishing. Blogging has many features like RSS feeds, remote blogging through mail, mobile blogging, etc.
I have not researched on the web to see if such blogs already exist but here are a few blogs that I think are a must.
- Blog by a local governing body in a city for updating it’s activities
- Blog by large organizations to keep its employees all over the world in touch and also to keep them informed about the latest in the organization
- Blog for TV series, Movies review n so on
Here, in India, people have just started blogging seriously. So, it may take a while for everybody to know n understand what a blog is. But, I see millions of new blogs being written in the near future and they are surely gonna help people communicate and share. (I hope, someone will use the web for what it should be used for ;-))
