eWeek: John Patrick on Weblogs
eWeek: John Patrick on Weblogs
Great article by this IBM veteran and internet pioneer - just some of the great quotes:
“Knowledge management wasn’t overhyped. It was underdelivered. Blogs can potentially deliver the grassroots discussions and knowledge-sharing that top-down, corporate-sponsored efforts never could.”
“I think this blog phenomenon is one of those things that comes along every decade or so and gets completely underestimated by just about everybody. It’s very much like what’s going on with Wi-Fi now, and very much what happened with the Web ten years ago.”
“In the mid-1990s, some businesses embraced the Internet quickly while others waited to see where it would lead. Some, like the music industry, still seem to be waiting. Blogging is at that same early stage. Some will embrace it and others will wait and some will wait too long.”
“I think we’ll see blogging become the first derivative of the Web. It takes the Web to a higher level.”