Serious blogging, serious problem?

The Dutch National Coordinator Terrorism published a report on the Jihad and the Internet today (January 16th 2007). For those who can read Dutch, find it here.

A former leader of the Al Mouhajiroun has been quoted in the report for this:

"We have no problems with technology. Other people use the web for stupid reasons, to waste time. We use is for serious things. "

A lot has been written about Al Quaeda and the Internet. It's a fact that a lot of terrorist activities on the Internet started after September 11. From that date the amount of terrorist Internet sites has grown from 12 to 4.500 in 2005. Don't know what the count is today. Main reason why they use the Internet for is knowledge management and propaganda. Reading (for instance) the IBM guidelines on employee blogging, you'll find the same kind of goals. Companies want their voice to be heard and know that being active in the bloghosphere increases the knowledge of their people. Now, a lot of positive things are being said about blogging. It will create a new culture, a bottom-up culture, a better society. Can it also create a worse society?