In 1994, I discovered the power of the web. By early 1995, I had bootstrapped my first website together and have never looked back. In 1997, poking around the CS lab late night, I came across this software tool I'd never heard of: Userland Frontier. The year before, I was challenged to design and implement a way to export our college's daily newspaper from Quark desktop publishing software to the web. The essential struggle was that there was no easy way to separate the content from the presentation. This was before CSS and all the rest. Suddenly, seeing the power of Userland's software made me salivate at the future. Well by 2000, I was using Userland Manilia to post my first blog. It allowed me to post whenever and wherever I was and not worry so much about the formatting. I've been blogging ever since.
More than two years ago, I started exploring the way that blogs could be used to create a vastly more useful corporate intranet and, for that matter, completely redefine the use of e-mail and the various artifacts people today use to keep track of their projects in an organization. I found others that had a similar interest and this idea began to be known as knowledge logs or "klogs" for short. Today, there is widespread awareness among the tech savvy of the incredible role blogs can play in organizations. When I have more time, I may link to a few case studies and seminal posts in this regard. But, among the mainstream executive, the blank stare is still all too common.
But perhaps all that will change now. Blogging's gone legit. After all, Bill Gates touted blogging as a business tool today at the annual Microsoft CEO Summit.
The story's not over, but I gotta run ... it will be interesting to see where we go from here.
Nice post,
Its a great deal of work that has changed the internet since you discovered it,
Anyway, thanks for the post
Posted by: software development in Surrey | January 13, 2010 at 06:50 AM