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The Industrial Science Blog: Complexity Science, Simulation, and Business
Monday, April 25, 2005
 
2005: The Year of the Blog
The current BusinessWeek boldly claims that "Bogs Will Change Your Business". The "blogsphere" is filled with all kinds of idle chatter, political ramblings, musings of people you may have nothing in common with. Then there are so-called "corporate blogs". What are such crazy notions? Why would a company want to establish a blog? Will the lawyers allow us to do such a thing?

The BW article is a good read and has some good "Blog 101" information (including RSS, software, podcasting, links to blogs of note, etc.). To make it even more authentic, the article is written in the form of a blog, with sentence fragments, abbreviations, date/time stamps, and of course, links. The only thing it lacks are comments from readers (more on that, in a second). Linking to the article will place you squarely in the middle of the blog phenomenon. As if to prove a point, the authors end the article by "birthing" a real blog (with the ability to post comments) called "Blogspotting", as in Trainspotting. Yes... a blog about blogs (a meta-blog). A blog you can link to from an on-line version of a print article on blogs. It can be very dizzying.

Back to the Industrial Science Blog. What are we trying to do here? We are constantly looking for applications of the right technology to address business and management issues. So whether it's mathematic/scientific tools such as agent-based modeling or Monte Carlo simulation, or on-line tools such as IM or the use of ftp sites to get around coporate email attachment policies, we are always solving problems. We experiment and try new things to promote and elevate the use of scientific methods and tools for addressing business issues.

So we invite you to visit often. Welcome to our clients, friends, mentors, associates, competitors, corporate lawyers, conrtibutors, and members of modeling/simulations community. As for the title of this post? So maybe you started your blog in 2004 or are already part of the phenomenon (if so, you are way ahead!). 2005 will be the year that you will start reading blogs on a regular basis. Perhaps you will start your own, or make contribution on this or other blogs.

The journey continues.
- posted by hcpark @ 10:24 PM  
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