Recently I have seen a spurt of blogs that describe step by step process of doing some technical task - e.g. how to set up a system for xyz task, configuration settings and so on. Now, ideally that belongs to documentation. But as we all know, documentations seldom describe the practical aspects that we face in our day to day work. The documentation is more about standard behaviour of software rather than the tricky things that we encounter almost everyday. But thanks to the enthusiastic community members who like to share their experiences, one search on the community lists out several solutions for the trickiest of problems. You can get the answers on forums, articles, wikis and sometimes blogs.
Now, though everyone has a right to choose the medium of sharing the expertise - blogs/forums/wiki/article, but there are certain protocols that if followed by everyone, then life becomes a little easier for those looking for answers. Just for a moment imagine if there were no defined words/grammar for a language and each one tried to form his own words and grammar, then what a chaotic situation would it have been!
So similarly in the community, it would be great if all of us understand what content would be appropriate to be an article or even part of a wiki, versus what comes as a blog. Wouldn't that make things a little structured in the collosal amounts of information that we have on SCN?
Blogging as we all know, started as a way of keeping a journal, or some opinion or information that one would like to share on the web. So why should it be any different in the community? Why not keep the "how to" stuff in the articles or wiki sections of the SCN and use the blogs to express our ideas and opinions. Following the protocol, anyone looking for answers to technical questions, for example, would know where to find the solution directly instead of having to search between several asset types (blogs/wikis/articles/forums....).
Well, that's my opinion so I blogged about it. Hope that other community members also feel the same way and those who don't, can at least give it some thought! 
