So someone said:

"...demonstrates they don't know how to do searches on their company name on PubSub, Feedster, or Technorati..."

Well, I've been in software since 1977 and have used Compuserve in the '80s, and some form or other of the Internet since around 1990 (FTP at first - the Web later when it came along) and I search the Web for (real) information all the time these days, and I've never heard of PubSub, Feedster, or Technorati. (OK - now I have.)

What I have seen of blogs recently makes me think of a large whiteboard and some markers placed out in a downtown public square. If any fool can write something there, then any fool will write something there.

I agree with most of the earlier posters - some of the more vocal bloggers have very inflated opinions of their sites' significance.

And by the way: "What we are all doing right now? Expressing our opinions..." Well yes, but this is not a blog - it's a topic-specific, moderated, registered user forum - such as has existed since before the Web (on Compuserve and the like).