I’ve had a lot of discussion around blogging today with people at work. First I did a little presentation on what is blogging (slides available here) to some of my colleagues.

It’s not something that easy to explain actually, but I think I managed to create a little interest. There is still a lot of evangelization to do however.

A question I got: How is a blog different from forums or newsgroups? It is of course, only because your posts are much better identified as coming from you. But does someone have a better answer?

Later we went to a bar and the discussion came back on blogging. A friend of mine (which I’m really trying to convince to blog…) came with a pretty good answer: Blogging is doing PR - public relationship - a about the product you’re trying to sell: yourself. If you care about this product, you are going to blog because you know you need to sell it.

Reminds me that I have been kind of blogging before I knew the word. The project page for the APIC Timer module was a actually a project blog, and I did it beginning of 2000.

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