Where does the Blogging Trend Lead us.

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  • on August 10th, 2006

Fred Wilson has a great post this morning that says Blogs will be our “morning paper”.

I have long used my blog as my portal page. It doesn’t link me to CNN or FOX or CNBC, but I don’t care.

I get my feel for what’s happening from the people in my blogroll. Some post early AM, some later in the day and some continually post.

Once I add a good music widget, www.howardlindzon.com will become my MySpace page. That has always been my issue with MySpace as it still seems closed in some way.

Fred sums it up best:


I look at my kids and their start pages aren’t Yahoo or Google News. Its their MySpace page. That’s where their world is. It’s no wonder that Google paid MySpace $900 million to be the search provider on MySpace.

Blogs are the endgame for social networking. MySpace is the AOL of blogging. It’s where you go when you don’t know how to do it yourself. But with MySpace starting to rein in what people can do with their pages (for a host of good and bad reasons), they are seeding their own decline. A decline that will take a decade if AOL is a good proxy. In the next ten years, most people who want an online home will have a blog, it will be their online identity and their start page and much more.

I haven’t done it yet, but I should change my start page to my blog. That’s where I go to start my day and end my day. And I am hell bent to configure my blog with enough functionality that it can be my newspaper, my inbox, my tv, my radio, and my social network. It’s pretty damn close already.

That’s where all of this is going. We’ll program our online world and others will too. And we’ll start our day there instead of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. My best is many of you reading this are already there.

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