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Looks like Amazon is adding author blogs linked from their bookstore pages:
The entries were part of a new program called Amazon Connect, begun late last month to enhance the connections between authors and their fans - and to sell more books - with author blogs and extended personal profile pages on the company's online bookstore site.This is the obvious commercial use of blogs. Forging relationships with people. These relationships then feed back positively into what you are trying to accomplish (changing people's minds, making money, etc...) I can't tell you how many people I have tried to talk into blogging who just can't get past the "but how will I make money off my blog?" stage. But you shouldn't think about it as a revenue generator; instead it's more like a cheaper and potentially much more effective way to advertise. It baffles me that it took Amazon this long.
And what the heck is Apple doing? They have the iTunes music store - by far the most popular way to buy music on line - and yet they let MySpace.com completely eat their lunch in the music community space. I don't get it. I think they really missed on that one.
Computer history folk music, or too much time on their hands? Maybe both. Every OS Sucks. Mildly funny if you are a geek of a certain age.