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An excellent article on Web Log (Blog) that is easy to read and understand.

http://www.ofenhandwerk.com/oklc/pdf_files/I-2_efimova.pdf

Posted by RTodd at January 24, 2005 4:26 PM

Thanks for point out Mitch's blog.

Posted by Gary Potter at January 24, 2005 5:58 PM

Erik. Could you tease something out of Scoble for me? Passion, I understand. But authority? Authenticity, maybe. What does he mean by authority? As far as I can surmise, authority seems to be what's lacking on blogs? Every Tom (including me and Peters), Dick and Harry can post an opinion, whether or not it's grounded in reality.

Posted by Tom Asacker at January 24, 2005 5:58 PM

Tom: I think robert means -"Two things that make a good blog: Passion [how often you post and go to information sources, like trade shows] and authority [knowledge level and clarity]. "

Via: http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/

Posted by /pd at January 24, 2005 9:08 PM

By authority he means really knowing the subject you're writing about. Authority, author. Writing about what you love, therefore know. It's the passion for the thing that drives you to discover more about it. Then you let the rest of the world know what you've learned.

Posted by Erik at January 24, 2005 9:25 PM

Yeah, authority means that, but it also means tonal authority, or boldness in your passion.

Boldness of believing in something enough to not wait for the results of an opinion poll or focus group.

Posted by Jason Kerr at January 25, 2005 5:18 AM

Thanks pd, Erik and Jason. I'm with ya. And as Alan Watts so wisely wrote (and I'm paraphrasing): An authority is no more than an author of something. And with everyone's desire to be published (to become an authority), the book stores are now filled with books about books about books about books. Will the same thing happen soon with blogs? Blogs about blogs about blogs about blogs.

Posted by Tom Asacker at January 25, 2005 11:36 AM

Actually Tom, I dont think it wil be blogs about blogs et al :)-
The next thing would be a 'reputation system'- omidyar.net is a good experiment, which I joined recently..a different concept...check it out for yourself !!

Posted by /pd at January 25, 2005 1:09 PM