An article at Lifehack.org titled, "How to use your blog to make 2008 your best year ever"got me thinking about the usefulness of blogs on a personal level. The post sums up a lot of the reasons I enjoy blogging but thinking about the future I wonder how blogs will be representative of society.
In many ways, I feel that blogs are a much more accurate description of people, events, thoughts, and attitudes than some other biased source like the news or magazines. With that in mind, I hope the companies running blog services are committed to retaining blog content for a long time.
When historians look back on society 200 or 300 years from now, blogs will paint a very vivid picture of people's attitudes, thoughts, and behaviors in a very raw form. I'd argue this is a more accurate description of our current world than textbooks or news archives could provide. (Of course, news archives are good at chronicling major events.) Look at it from today's perspective, anthropologists get extremely excited when they find old journals or notebooks from ancient people and blogs are just a modern form of that.
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