Maybe this “Web 2.0″ thing really is going mainstream.
My Mother is a dyed-in-the-wool writer. She has journaled for (at least) the last 25 years and has published poetry and she and her husband have just finished a year of teaching abroad in Italy.

With that wrapping up they are planning on walking (yeah you read it right) the Camino de Santiago from the French border down to Santiago de Compestella on the West coast of Spain - some 800 kilometers (roughly 500 miles for us Yanks). Camino de Santiago is an old pilgrims’ trail. It’s a very cool trek.

I thought “Wow, wouldn’t it be cool if she blogged the trip!”

The reason that I thought it was an exciting idea was what seemed to me to be the modernization of the travelogue a la “The Colossus of Marousi” by Henry Miller.

But the point is, that it was surprisingly easy to convince her to blog their trek as opposed to sending out e-mails along the way.

I think it must have appealed to the writer in her but certainly the faculty of being able to write and publish without having to remember 30 or 40 e-mail addresses was a big plus - they aren’t taking their laptops with them and instead will be hitting internet cafes along they way.

I guess that if Web 2.0 is for real, then the ‘real’ part is its ability to facilitate. To facilitate communication, publishing, purchase, etc. So, are your reports and analyses Web 2.0 compatible? Do they facilitate your business? (Just had to maintain a business focus here didn’t I?)

If you’re interested to see how literate and intelligent but non-technical people are using blogs, take a look: http://haystravel.blogspot.com/.

Happy Blogging Mom & Mike!

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