Slogging Probably Not a Good Name for Service Blogs

Posted on April 29, 2006

ZDNet has a blog post that says Tim Ewald believes services should keep consumers up-to-date about services they are subscribed to using blogs or feeds.

Is this an example of Web 2.0 meeting SOA? Ewald writes: "I envision a system based on 'service blogs,' or 'slogs.' A slog conveys information about the state of a service. As a consumer, I want to subscribe to a slog for each service I use. My aggregator becomes a 'dependency dashboard' that tells me about upcoming service news."
I think "slogging" is a pretty clever name for a very useful service, though it evokes images of never-ending messaging... sort of like slogging through 100 e-mails a day.

Ewald's post can be found here. It is a great idea for consumers to be able to subscribe to a feed that would keep them informed about changes, updates, problems, recalls, etc about services and products they are using. Many web companies already keep people updated with a blog. A feed could also be used to deliver status and revision information in a way that is useful for the software industry. However, slogs and slogging may not be a very good name for this because it sounds so much like splogs, which is a name given to spam blogs.