Okay, I think we’ve all had enough of the hubbub about the recent Forbes cover story, “Attack of the Blogs.” More than a thousand blog stories have appeared by now, I’m sure. I just wanted to pass along what I think is a very thoughtful commentary on the subject. It’s from The Intuitive Life Business Blog by Dave Taylor.
Here’s a key excerpt:
“There are so, so many positive articles and books being published about blogging, some of which are just as one-sided in the other direction, entreating even the most illiterate of business owners to quickly jump into the blogging world lest their competitors get there first, that blogging itself ‘reinvents business’ and so on, that perhaps articles like ‘Attack of the Blogs’ are needed just to achieve some sort of balance.”
The point exactly, Dave, and one that I’ve touched on in my writings. The blogosphere comes off as being much too one-sided and self-adoring about blogging, certainly to the mainstream business person. It’s a tortuous circle. (And even the traditional media — so needing to look hip — gleefully joins in. Witness the glowing cover story in Business Week earlier this year.) Blogging is not a panacea in and of itself. Balance is sorely needed, or many in the mainstream just shut it out.
Thanks for the link and kind words. I’ve gotten rather a bit of grief for my article, perhaps unsurprisingly. 🙂