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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Is Blogging bad?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/archive/2006/08/06/442617.aspx</link><description>Of course it’s not – It’s just an attention grabbing headine. :-) Everyone loves blogs and blogging don’t they? But does it create some issues? I like this from Dave Snowdens blog “However as we talked I realised that one of the negative sides of blogs</description><dc:language>en-GB</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>re: Is Blogging bad?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/archive/2006/08/06/442617.aspx#445214</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:38:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:445214</guid><dc:creator>Blake Handler</dc:creator><description>One of the unfortunate side-effects is that people seek out blogs with opinions that agree with their own. 
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&lt;br&gt;This will have longer term consequences as people subscribe (RSS) only to news feeds that “agrees” with their own personal beliefs – meaning their own opinions will not be challenged. 
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&lt;br&gt;So I guess blogging IS bad! (^_^)</description></item><item><title>re: Is Blogging bad?</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/john_westworth/archive/2006/08/06/442617.aspx#445467</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:57:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:445467</guid><dc:creator>UK Partner Online</dc:creator><description>blogging ain't bad but there can be bad blogging :) I read a good paper over at ChangeThis on Business Blogging that had some good advice. &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.changethis.com/25.07.BusinessBlogging"&gt;http://www.changethis.com/25.07.BusinessBlogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm totally sold on it as a way to connect with an audience you may never see or have the physical scale to reach and also because done well, it's honest and lacking spin which tires me out. </description></item></channel></rss>