A Big Cat Is Now Out of The Bag!!!

I just read an online article entitled "Google launches blog search" and although the means to conduct online searches for blogs was already there, Google has further simplified the process.

I immediately went to the given website URL for the Blog Search capability and typed in "Kappa Alpha Psi" with the quotes to find out who else has been blogging about Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. besides myself.

There are currently 242 blog entries and the number is probably higher with other words used as search keywords.

One nice surprise is that RSS and Atom feeds are available for every search result either in groups of 10 or 100. This means that for those blogs who have enabled the RSS or Atom feeds (through automatic XML in most cases), a new realm has just opened up for a larger potential audience than existed before.

This is where it is going to get interesting indeed.

I have mentioned within blog entries on this blog as well as other blogs that I write for that bureaucracy or secrecy has gotten lost within the shuffle within this new era of the internet and mass communications.

Never again will anyone or organization be able to conduct business as usual as if there are no witnesses for the actions or inactions good or bad.

Many individuals and organizations alike have thought that disgruntled or abused people or former or even current members would go home and sulk in the comforts of their private homes.

Everyone has known that a dissatisfied customer is likely to tell at least 13 other people about bad service versus the 3 or 4 people who are likely to be told about good service.

Now the entire world will be able to know if and when something goes wrong within an organization and even perhaps on an one-to-one level.

Realistically, bad news travels faster hands down and most media outlets say that bad news sells more than touchy-feeling news and stories.

My point is that the magnifying glass to and from everyone has just gotten larger.

Another observation about Google's Blog Search is that older blog entries are listed first than newer blog entries being listed first.

This is understandable since older entries likely have been either linked to or just have been made available to search spiders and robots to have been discovered faster than newer entries.

But if there is a blogger that writes content and/or articles that you like, just consider checking out their other blogs, blog entries, or subscribe to their blog.

Since my blog production has increased steadily over the last couple of months, I imagine that there will be more entries discovered that consistently blogs about Kappa Alpha Psi versus blogs that mention our Grand Fraternity every now and then.

I cannot help but to wonder what the Coalition and corresponding subunits within other organizations are going to think now;)

If it were possible to buy secrecy, the term of secrecy would be terribly shorter and the renewal costs would be even higher.

So now everyone has to operate and conduct their operations to fulfill their own words as in talking the talk and walking the walk as everyone likes to say that they are going to do.

The greater exposure to blogs is definitely going to be a good thing indeed.

Now that subscriptions to mailing lists are going to start fading away to some extent, everyone will benefit from having less e-mail hit their inboxes than before.

Yes my brothers, the biggest cat is now out of the bag! The only other bigger cat to come will be video that does not require a ton of bandwidth.

Yours in the Bond!