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A good article about the blogging revolution: BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis. All true, but I think blogging still needs its killer app. A way to get the major audience, not just 1 or 2 million people, but hundreds of millions. For instance, blogs are great for individual opinions of about any subject that comes to mind, but one of their flaws is that they are so random. One post can be about the next California governor, and the next post can be about video games. There is no narrative between the posts, which make it difficult to follow. If there were a way to search blogs by topic, or date, or time, that might be the killer app. Since Google has purchased Blogger, perhaps that is what they are working on. The Internet has a ways to grow...