CEO blogs

Stumbled upon yet another CEO blog today . These days i read quite a bit about CEOs and their workstyles and how they manage themselves and their pack . But more often than not CEO blogs are too heavy a material for me to digest. Until i read this one....i thought i was reading a blog of a person like Steve. But no the blog was one that of a CEO of SYNNEX Canada which sell about a Billion $ in computer products in Canada.

It has a heady dose of self development articles and peppered with lot of good quotes. Coming from a successful CEO makes it all the more meaningful. I'm gonna loiter around here more often.

RSS...Really Super Stuff !!

To say RSS has re-defined the way one looks at Internet would be an under statement ! It has simply revolutionized the way Internet works sounds more appropriate !! If you are to choose between visiting a site daily to check for updates and letting that site's updates comes to you in real time , what would you choose ? The latter ofcourse . So Welcome RSS ..if you haven't done so already !!

There is more to RSS....it lets aggregators to watch a number of sites.It lets people to have relationships with sites on their own terms. No more giving your email addresses to Sites and having your inboxes spammed as a fallout. Last but the best ..... it keeps you in sync with the happenings around Blogosphere.

These days whenever i hit upon a good site , i immediately try to subscribe to its feeds. No RSS ?? Disgusting !! Another Interesting thing with the ascendancy of RSS is that the Site owners are forced to give importance to the Content than on the Jazzy design . 'Coz they would never know whether their client is a Browser or an Aggregator.

Go ahead....Choose your feeds , cut the cacophony out and listen what you wanna listen !!

Blogs a different genre from Personal Websites ?

Rex Hammock's take...

I think a personal website is a static presence on the Internet that can be comprised of many components, a weblog being one of those components. (Or, you can make your blog the only component if you want.)

A blog is merely an online journal that can be updated as often as someone wants to update it. It's called a web "log" because the geeks who first started doing them were trekies. (Okay. That's merely a theory, but it's one that amuses me.)

A blog can be private so that just a few people see what you post -- say, a family blog or a hobby blog, or a sunday school class blog

It can be private so that a few people working on a project can see it

It can be public and be done for fun

It can be public and serve as a means for someone to market their expertise

It can be public and allow someone to have the opportunity to be heard free from editorial control or approval by da man.

It can be public and be owned by da man.

When I started my blog, one of the reasons was to replace all of the e-mail I was sending to multiple addresses; you know, the "have you seen this article" type of e-mail.

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Personally i feel blogs can be a gr8 networking tool. Never-seen-the-person-but-know-him-so-well kind of 'blogships' can blossom. Last but not least ...... it helps to kill time ( if u r a s/w guy , then u wud know wht i mean ;) ) !!

Blogs.....

Am trying to remember when i heard the term 'blogs' first .......it must have been couple of years back .... even tried to read some of the Rediffblogs then....my opnion that time was 'Blogs suck big time' . Still i was hooked to Rediff Diary .... a series of anecdote-like articles. I liked them because i cud relate myself to them so easily. Blogs, as a term, haunted me again during the US invasion of Iraq. A couple of blogs maintained by Iraqi civilians presented the stark ground realities. Thatz whn i realised the potential of Blogs ...... that this cud be the new face of Journalism. Tsunami Disaster and the recent fiasco of Mark Jen with Google re-affirmed my faith that Blogging is the next big thing in Internet.

Today i cant imagine my day without reading Blogs. RSS feeds have made blogs such a potent force to reckon with. I subscribe to nearly 50 feeds and Bloglines has become a One-stop-site for me to gobble up whatever Blogosphere has to offer me.

Saw this quote today somewhere ....
"Blogging is like writing an email, cc:World." - Doc Searls
Aint this quote cute !!!!