John Robb on personal publishing

I think this is worth repeating in full:

Where’s the Beef in Web Services?

You’re reading it.  It’s personal publishing.  Web Services are being used to reinvent the world of personal publishing.  What is personal publishing good for?  Knowledge management, small business, news publishing, and much more.  A combination of markets worth a boatload of money (personal Web publishing can even take a bite out of the $8 b a year Microsoft makes from Word sales).  In addition to the potential opportunity, personal publishing is a sexy use of Web Services that provides immediate, tangible results. 

What does the personal Web publishing market get in terms of coverage?  Stories about weblogs that equate them with CB Radios.  Essentially crap.  No stories about the innovations made, the lives changed, the businesses launched, and the fun experienced using these new products.  There is a whole new layer of the Web being built today that will change the lives of half a billion Web users in the next decade. 

Personal publishing deserves respect.  It deserves decent coverage.  Here’s the beef in Web Services. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

I’d prefer to replace Web Services with Blogging. But it’s a valid point, related to my own post here on Dangerous thinking yesterday.

This personal publishing thing is truly disruptive.

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