HW 16b: Response to the 5 Pillars of blogging.

I chose to do option B and respond to Robert Scoble's 5 Pillars to what made blogging "hot".

In Scoble's interview he talks about the Five Pillars of Blogging. He claims that this is what makes blogging "hot"(Klein and Burstein p.130) Scoble does not give a direct meaning for each pillar, the following pillars are my best interpretation of what he was really trying to get at. The first pillar is ease of publishing. Blogging allows people to say whatever they want and feel is important with out having to go through publishers and editing. Blogs do save people incredible amounts of time when they are trying to get a point across whether it just be a small comment or a huge issue. Publishing and editing can take years. The second pillar is discoverability. My interpretation of this is that blogs let people know that everything has a website. Everything is commentable. There are so many topics to blog about, and discoverability helps me learn that. The third pillar is cross-site conversations. This pillar allows other bloggers to know what their fellow bloggers have been up to. It allows them to know what websites they've been to and commented on. The fourth pillar is permalinking. Blogs make life easier and take you to the link of exactly where you want to go. Again blogs save time which makes life easier for everyone. The fifth and final pillar is Syndication. Syndication is a form of keeping in the know. This pillar keeps you up with new websites, and also helps you find new ones that might interest you. This pillar also allows you to browse any website you want without giving out any personal information. This is helpful because know you can just check something out without becoming completely involved. I'm in agreement with Scoble, his five pillars make perfect sense of why blogging is so popular at this day in age. Blogs are so easy to come across and help get so much information out into the world.