Blogging, The days of BBS's return...

From BBS's to Blogs:
Interesting... After researching Blogs prior to starting this one, I found it fascinating that as with many things (such as fashion) we have once again come full circle. I'm sure others have taken note on this as well, but Blogs have an amazing similarity to the Bulletin Board Systems of days ago. Remember PCBoard and FidoNet? Ahh the good old days - when I used to run the SailBoard BBS where people actually built useful programs (without malicious content) that where openly shared. Open messaging was the only way to communicate and content driven by themes were all the rage. Twenty years ago (and I'm sorry to date myself), the BBS's and the internet were barely know to most retailers and its usage was raw yet still powerful. Powerful I say because of the sharing.

So where has the sharing gone:
Although today it is certainly great to click on your favorite retailer and order things, the internet of today seems to be missing something that made the previous days of BBS's fun and exciting (and useful). By placing our information systems under lock and key, it is as if we have taken several steps backwards. It is certainly understandable in this day and age where virus's are released at an alarming rate, but nonetheless its unfortunate. If the folks that spend their idle time creating malicious code would focus on productive work, perhaps we can once again get back to the days of sharing information.

Lets get the Blog out:
In any case, I'm glad to see another tool for information sharing begin to take shape again. It is long overdue.... Now I realize that Blogging has been around for sometime; I guess I'm not as an earlier adopter of things as I claim to be. Be that as it may, as a novice Blogger I welcome it and hope it becomes more common place.

Step back for a minute and from a cloud layer look at this simple tool and consider the ramifications... If properly managed, this information tool could be very powerful one for not only individuals, but for company's to take advantage of as well. Consider this yet another form within the chain of Knowledge Management and lets hope other technology leaders grasp the concept and consider it's implications. The more we provide access to information, the better off all of us will be.