Technology and Information
It seems there are three motivations for information exchange in the niche of blogging media:
- Entertainment
- Planning
- To Generate More Information
Blogs serve the purpose of entertaining, this includes all the jokes and humor, updates about the next gadget, horror stories about failed companies, gossip, or even just news about local events. This is information that we consume for our own sake. It doesn’t get past a few conversations or an internal emotional response.
Blogs serve the purpose of informing so that people can plan. This includes product releases, events and announcements, technology reviews, etc. Information that people use to get things done. About how to plan a vacation, a day, a career, an education, a business.
Blogs serve the purpose of generating moreblogs. Weird. Blogging serves bloggers, as well as other media outlets. Blogging is viral and information is consumed for the purpose of regurgitation, editorials, or adding facts. Posts beget posts. Information generates more information.
…and where will we find the time to read all that blogflood?
It does consume a lot of time. I am an avid blog reader… my iPhone + Google Reader has been the best thing to keep up. I can read a few posts while waiting for a lunch meeting, etc.
I do notice that I spend a lot of time moving through several blog posts giving similar analysis and details on the same topic.
I’ve always thought there needed to be an aggregator on blog post topics to help with the redundancy of the wave.
I’d be curious to take the top 10 tech news blogs and see how much overlap there is every day.