<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778661.post109745478487606001..comments</id><updated>2007-02-26T06:41:26.658-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Blog-a-Bing: Blogs part the first: observation</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://binghowe.blogspot.com/feeds/109745478487606001/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7778661/109745478487606001/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://binghowe.blogspot.com/2004/10/blogs-part-first-observation_10.html'/><author><name>Benedict Bing-Howe Chia</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778661.post-109898300314494304</id><published>2004-10-28T10:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2004-10-28T10:03:00.000-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"But these ‘monkeys' that choose to participate in...</title><content type='html'>"But these ‘monkeys' that choose to participate in blogs are living, breathing, subject matter experts and enthusiasts who need no external motivation to research on their interest in that topic. When you gather such a pool of enthusiast, you will start a community of knowledge among those users."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is something that I'm only recently really beginning to understand. I used to think that it was expertise I had a bad taste for. Beginning to realize that it's just the a priori identification of expertise that I'm supposed to buy and bow down to that really annoys me. Great insight.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7778661/109745478487606001/comments/default/109898300314494304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7778661/109745478487606001/comments/default/109898300314494304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://binghowe.blogspot.com/2004/10/blogs-part-first-observation_10.html?showComment=1098982980000#c109898300314494304' title=''/><author><name>David</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08302109332912522427</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://binghowe.blogspot.com/2004/10/blogs-part-first-observation_10.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778661.post-109745478487606001' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7778661/posts/default/109745478487606001' type='text/html'/></entry></feed>