Having conversations in real time by sharing information is fueling the birth of all kinds of knowledge in the blogging world. “Blogging search and discovery” tools help us navigate the distributed conversations going on across weblogs, so we can pick and choose the nuggets of info we want from the massive amounts out there.
These tools help us to meet and form relationships with kindred blogging spirits…
Posted Jul 13, 2004, 9:34 AM ET by Peter Caputa
I think it is safe to say that sharing information is at the center of social networking. And blogging software is the best and most popular tool available which combines social networking and sharing information publicly.
Blogging is at the center of many social networks. Livejournal and xanga are blogging tools with social networking built in. Similarly, ecademy and multiply are social networking sites with blogging tools built in.
Kinja even recently tried to make reading what other people read, a social networking activity. (e.g. example digest). Bloglines might succeed at doing just that.
It is only natural that timely sharing of information with different degrees of a social network be a core piece of social networks. Although blogger recently launched profiles and public profiles have been available in typepad (e.g. mine) for awhile now, most bloggers rely on blogrolls to denote social networks. Many bloggers use blogrolling.com and TypePad users often use typelists. The recently improved Bloglines.com, the online rss aggregator, also powers blogrolls. If these public profiles aren’t enough, some bloggers have started publishing republishable “blogger bios” as weblog posts to aid their networking using blogs.
