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# More mainstream blogging
- URL: https://werd.io/more-mainstream-blogging/
- Published: 2005-12-06T11:57:28.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:31.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[The BBC has started weblogging.](http://blogs.bbc.co.uk/nickrobinson/2005/12/about%5Fthis%5Fwebl.html)

Although the feedback we receive is overwhelmingly positive, I still get criticisms that the medium is for teenagers and slackers, and has no use in a knowledge-sharing environment. One critic even suggested that incorporating blogging and similar technologies was "riding a hype wave" and merely "checking off buzzwords". Sorry, but you're completely wrong; there has never been an easier way to publish. I can see how these technologies would be threatening to an old guard that strongly believes in hierarchy and privilege, but I believe in a democracy of knowledge, where anyone can send their ideas out into the world and they're judged on their own merits. Clearly that idea is spreading.