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And this is apparently she

>amount of work

There was a comment on Battelle's site (made by some media pundit as I recall) that I've searched for 3 times now and just could not find. The larger/better quote was on the pundit's own site and went something along the lines of

"blogs combine the drudgery of producing a daily newspaper column with the deadlines and pressures of radio" (that doesn't seem right, lacks the bite the original quote had, but you get the idea.)

I did not really know what a blog was until about 30 days after actually running a blog. Many people equate blogs to ease of journalism and a website that updates frequently, which is true, but for the most part barely grasp the idea of rss feeds, pings, trackback, and pingbacks for instance. The true power of blogs has yet to be explained to a broader audience.

In addition to a lack of understanding of blogs then there is the complete mystification of blog search services like daypop, technoratti, blogdigger, feedster, or bloglines search for instance. I am confident I can get a pair of eye-balls to pop out each day followed by a deer in the headlights look each time I demonstrate a feed feedster search in conjuntion with registering the resulting rss feed in bloglines for monitoring when showing other software colleagues or friends.