There seems to be a lot of chatter from people like Leo Laporte (twit.tv)and Veronica Belmont (TekZilla), that the Blog being made obsolete by sites like Facebook and Twitter, but I feel that the blog will become more important. I recently signed up for twitter (@codemonkx) and Facebook (facebook.com/nickys) and I think they really great. But will they replace a blog? I don’t think so, I think they will just change its role.

For me social sites do not spell the doom of blogs, but an opportunity for blogs to change into something more useful. The blog should become the hub for all your personal information. tweets, blog posts, flicker photos, del.icio.us links, calendar events, forum posts, blog comments which are all scattered across the net. The blog can act as the catch all for all your online content.

Google Wave seems to be making some moves in this direction, by allowing content from many sources to be consolidated into once feed. Wave, from what I have seen in videos, is more of a personal information manager and is not used as your public face to the world.

Imagine your blog that consolidates all your tweets, flicker photos, comments posted on other blogs/forums/websites, or videos. By leveraging the other social sites like twitter and Flickr blogs should be the central place for people to find everything you publicly post.

Of course, most people to not need this they will be perfectly happy with a facebook page or a twitter feed. For people with several accounts on many different sites or who already have blogs they should still be the center of their public information. Hopefully for a long time to come.