Blogs seem to be about the sharing of ideas and experiences. Blogs have gone from a simple online journal to a world wide sensation, and extremely diverse in style and content matter. The prevailing theme and message of the blog is that ideas, anyones ideas are meant to be shared and discussed. Now that ideas and work are able to be shared at such a fast rate and at such numbers, blogs are all over the place.
What the creators of blogs are trying to show is that your ideas are supposed to be shared with the world wide web.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Bias
Talking about bias while talking about blogging is rather pointless, really.
I mean, a technology who's most basic point is to allow people to publish their opinions and stories online will be nothing but biased.
There is no screening process involved with getting a blog. Anyone and everyone with an internet access and the ability to type can start their own blog.
Bias will be inherent in any blog, whether the blog is about music, politics, movies, the environment or just a journal blog. People write mainly from opinionated stand points, not journalistic ones. The difference between reading about current events from a privately run blog and a newspaper would be that journalists are meant to write just the facts of the events. While bias does have a way to seep into journalism, they at least attempt to remain impartial. With bloggers, there is no pretext of unbiased opinion. For example, this blog is written from a group of liberal minded writers.
While this one is written from a conservative stand point:
Music centered blogs are usually very biased with the kind of music they follow and talk about. Most music blogs focus on one kind of music, indie music blogs are popular, bloggers enjoy finding bands or artists before they become popular.
Aside from the fact that all blogs contain their own bias, blog services contain bias of their own. Blogs promote the idea that every blogger's opinion is interesting enough to be heard.
I mean, a technology who's most basic point is to allow people to publish their opinions and stories online will be nothing but biased.
There is no screening process involved with getting a blog. Anyone and everyone with an internet access and the ability to type can start their own blog.
Bias will be inherent in any blog, whether the blog is about music, politics, movies, the environment or just a journal blog. People write mainly from opinionated stand points, not journalistic ones. The difference between reading about current events from a privately run blog and a newspaper would be that journalists are meant to write just the facts of the events. While bias does have a way to seep into journalism, they at least attempt to remain impartial. With bloggers, there is no pretext of unbiased opinion. For example, this blog is written from a group of liberal minded writers.
While this one is written from a conservative stand point:
Music centered blogs are usually very biased with the kind of music they follow and talk about. Most music blogs focus on one kind of music, indie music blogs are popular, bloggers enjoy finding bands or artists before they become popular.
Aside from the fact that all blogs contain their own bias, blog services contain bias of their own. Blogs promote the idea that every blogger's opinion is interesting enough to be heard.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Photo Blog
Photo blogs are blogs used to showcase a blogger's photography or to to show pictures they found online. This is an example of the second:
"Next on Charles Bronson Kills Hipsters:"
"everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
boom
and some examples of the first:
http://blog.petecarr.net/2010/12/02/dinomania-at-world-museum-liverpool/
http://www.deceptivemedia.co.uk/
http://www.myglasseye.net/p/656
"Next on Charles Bronson Kills Hipsters:"
"everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?"
boom
and some examples of the first:
http://blog.petecarr.net/2010/12/02/dinomania-at-world-museum-liverpool/
http://www.deceptivemedia.co.uk/
http://www.myglasseye.net/p/656
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Implications of Blogs
At the moment blogs are being used for entertainment, news, opinion and like I said before, really just anything you can think of. From the early days of the internet as we know it today blogs have gone from online journal entries to multi purpose websites used for a wide range of topics and purposes.
While most are either video or text based, I can see blogs becoming much more interactive in the future. Blogs have already become more interactive as they progress. Blogs enable comments on posts, but I can see blogs becoming more of a blogging community as opposed to a single person's opinion. Blogs may become more of a combination of forums and essays. Video blogs may begin to become more of a forum as well, enabling video comments and more interactive options. I can see blogs becoming more of an online community as opposed to single essays.
Some blogs have become so popular their writers have began to make a living off them. Examples:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ The writer of this blog has been able to transform the popularity and well known status of his blog into writing a best selling book.
Blogs like this: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ are a full time job.
Because of the popularity of the site and the amount of hits per day, the woman writing it is paid by the server website to keep her blog. This is the case for a lot of blogs today.
Working online is common, and blogger is becoming a full time job in some cases.
This will probably continue in the future, with more and more blogs being made, and more and more people reading them.
While most are either video or text based, I can see blogs becoming much more interactive in the future. Blogs have already become more interactive as they progress. Blogs enable comments on posts, but I can see blogs becoming more of a blogging community as opposed to a single person's opinion. Blogs may become more of a combination of forums and essays. Video blogs may begin to become more of a forum as well, enabling video comments and more interactive options. I can see blogs becoming more of an online community as opposed to single essays.
Some blogs have become so popular their writers have began to make a living off them. Examples:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ The writer of this blog has been able to transform the popularity and well known status of his blog into writing a best selling book.
Blogs like this: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/ are a full time job.
Because of the popularity of the site and the amount of hits per day, the woman writing it is paid by the server website to keep her blog. This is the case for a lot of blogs today.
Working online is common, and blogger is becoming a full time job in some cases.
This will probably continue in the future, with more and more blogs being made, and more and more people reading them.
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