[Xandax]

Blogging in its "pure" original form, I view as highly unneasecary, because it is basically intented as a diary sort of text. "What did I do today" - type of writing. This to me is very similar to all the "Hello, here am I and my family"-type websites which exists but was hugely popular back in the more earlier days of the Internet. Some usage for this could of course be if you are far away from familiy and/or friends and then use it as a means to communication across the distances and see what is up with each others lifes. However, besides this - I wouldn't ever utilize such a usage of blogs.

However, lately the booming of blogs used as a means to post some opinion about something, posting techincal articles or other areas of expertise - I find highly interesting. This is because blogs are often much more then mearly articles, they are a communication between the poster and his audience. I often use techincal/programming blogs to investigate elements which is usefull for my work, and I use just as much the comments made by readers as the actual blog itself. I see this as an extension of simply posting articles at some site, because it is now much more personal because it is grouped together with everything else you write about, whereas in an article database, each article is more "stand alone".

However, naturally in my view one has to be accountable for what you post, and thus people should indeed be careful about what they write. Blogs are in my view on the same level as writing coloums for a newspaper.

Anyways - my two bits.