Just a quick tip and question here. CAR (California Association of REALTORS) has launched a new ‘legal blog.’ You can access this fledgling resource here:
My question is whether blogging in this fashion, where you are clearly looking for and depending on the target audience to help make your content timely and relevant is really feasible. We can call this ‘Diablogging.’ If so, it could well become a new support tool for front line technicians in real estate and elsewhere. In essence the modern interactive blog site seems on the verge of entering the traditional ’support knowledgebase’ space. My concern of course is that as we start to blend elements of blogging with bulleting board style conversations, expertise and aesthetics can be lost in the process. Who QA’s this information (and if no one, what is its real value?). This is the central question behind user contributed content, and the reason for some of the recent woes of the major user contributed content sites like wikipedia.
As blogging, bulletin boards and knowledgebases in some ways converge around ‘user contributed content’ it will be interesting to see the way that they intersect, and if they can in fact remain distinct.
Hey, maybe Tony and Danilo of real/diaBlog have the term diablog trademarked? 
It felt too good to have been new as it rolled off my keyboard! I will investigate their efforts and happily give them attribution though I had not heard the term when I wrote the post this am
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