I generally can’t stop talking about blogs. I talk about them at work. I talk about them to my family. I talk about them to my friends. I tell people on airplanes.

I imagine it must be annoying.

One comment I get a lot from people who have heard of blogs before is “Man, I hate blogs.” But in the end I think this comment is bit of the “do guns kill people or people kill people” question. As it turns out, love blogs as I do, I hate most blogs. In fact I am only reading 2% of the blogs I started reading when I started reading them 3 years ago. But then there are the blogs that I ended up settling on that are amazing. Lawrence Lessig a Stanford law professor, a product manager of One Note (a Microsoft product I use), a family who has a daughter with Cancer, an employee at Yahoo. These are gems and it is rare they write something I don’t want to read. It is also perspective I would never, never, never have gotten without this technology.

This is true at work as well. We had a meeting at work the other day about org goals. Half of the managers had read about our world wide VP’s thinking on goals on my blog the previous day. Guess which group was more valuable to have around?

I think often people think something has to be easy to be good. It is not easy to find blogs worth reading. It isn’t easy to process the amount of information available these days. But it is a hell of a lot easier than it used to be.

It was only recently that I realized after all this talk, I didn’t have a blog. Input only. Sigh…