There are a lot of blogs. About 130 million. That's a ballpark. (and according to Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation)
It is amazing how many blogs are floating in the blogosphere as cyber space junk.
While I was involved with an internship with Squidoo.com, I was challenged to find as many relevant blogs about a certain topic. The challenge was not in finding them, but in finding blogs that were not just sitting there dormant in cyber-space.
You'd be astonished about how many of these things there are.
So... if you're looking for the value in a blog, it's that it's dynamic. Not dynamic in the robotic sense, but dynamic in the human sense.
Go ahead and try it yourself. Go to google blogsearch and search for all the blogs related to your favorite topic. Look for the date. See if the date is current. You're likely to be surprised to find many blogs haven't been updated since last year or a few years ago... let alone daily.
It's not easy to write about something everyday. It's also not easy to organize your thoughts everyday (or every other day) - but it is rewarding, and it is an amazing marketing tool -- whether you use it for your sanity, your message, your business, your kids or your creative outlet.
Personally, I think we have yet to harness the full power of dynamic, relevant, human and targeted content via bloggers. The trailblazers are still largely considered loons. (not to me, of course. I think they're mavericks -- and to be admired).
Also, I think there are some bloggers that spent a year in theIr apartment every single day attempting to harness the power that the trailblazers utilize so well. Blogging ain't easy. If you think it is, you ought to start one. Then you'll see why I'm crazy about it and why doors that you never knew existed start to open...
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