Bloggington, DC
They say Washington is 60 square miles of real estate surrounded by reality. Washington has some of the best parties in the diplomatic quarter and with all the lobbyists. And some of the best journalists writing about the craft of politics and the characters. And the rest of us go through life amused at the goings-on.
Blog world is becoming like DC. We have media writing about bloggers - positive and negative. We have chic Web 2.0 parties. And then you have reality - CIOs control over a trillion dollars in IT budgets. They are just amused at the goings-on in blog world.
Politicians who last spend a lot of time in their constituencies. Us bloggers need to do a lot more with CIOs and buyers rather than VCs, vendors, analysts and other bloggers. True North is on Main Street not tech.memeorandum.
The new naval gazing peut etre?
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | February 18, 2006 at 10:10 PM
Are all bloggers you know "VCs, vendors and analysts"? I am "other bloggers", I guess, but I'm playing INSIDE the playpen, as a manager (not quite CIO) of IT in the corporate world, and a buyer of technology. That may explain why I sometimes disagree with other tech bloggers (no names, no pack drill) - and almost certainly why I miss out on those parties!
Posted by: Ric | February 20, 2006 at 08:19 AM
Ric, glad you raised your hand!
We need more user bloggers like you or at least those in the middle like me to a) represent the voice of the buyer, not just the investor or the vendor b) focus the forums not just on web 2.0 (a little too much of that in blogs) but also on other exciting enterprise technologies like SaaS, telemetry, predictive analytics etc. And the boring IT issues like how expensive some technologies are.
Look forward to your POV
Posted by: vinnie mirchandani | February 20, 2006 at 08:28 AM
It's users who will decide. But only if they are prepared to share what they have come to learn in media like this. An evolution of the case study if you will. It's one of the things that really excites me about podcasting for instance. The disruptive effect that might have on the analyst community is something that fascinates me. After all, aren't most of them filters of what they see and hear?
Posted by: Dennis Howlett | February 22, 2006 at 10:02 AM