hw 13 business bologna

In the article "Blogs Will Change Your Business" Baker and Green say that blogs should be a prerequisite to business. That blogs are todays equivalant to The printing Press. That no matter what business you are heading for wether it be delivery or smut; you need to be observing all blogs, because they pertain to you. This i feel is just simply not true. They make it seem as if blogs are the second coming, and yet contradict themselves by saying, "only 27% of internet users in America now bother to read them"(Baker and Green pg. 222). As far as blogging goes in the business world, I still feel like a good cup of coffee in the morning would help accomplish more. Blogs are important when they are given to normal people and in turn giving them a voice. In the article it says that there are 40,000 new blogs everyday, which seems to be a stretch, becuase by that account in just about 20 years every person in America will have a blog. They said that it did not matter if 99% of those blogs were worthless, as long as 1% was still worth reading. I completely agree with this, blogs can get the full news out to the public; unlike mainstream media which is filtered for content. Clearly there is a desire from the American public to reach a source of news that matters. In theory the blogosphere would be place to reach that news.