So, I just finished reading Blogging a few minutes ago, and wow, its very interesting, but also incredible too, in a few ways. For one thing, I find it hard to believe that blogging has been around for as long as it has been. According to the book, blogging has existed almost as long as the internet itself has, which means to be that blogging is older, yet it is still growing in popularity. From regular people, to a family using the same blog, to also travel agents posting brochures through each blog post, with one for each area or country.
What I thought was most interesting and also incredible was that businesses also blog. That fact was probably the most interesting thing I read in the whole book. To me, I wouldn't think a business would blog, because they are always so busy and wouldn't have the time to do anything like a web log. But the book says that they use blogs to do a variety of things. One of these reasons, is so that these participating businesses can follow conversations about them which exist online already, and to reply to them. This is a very good reason to me, and I believe that it works well, since a company could listen in, or read the comments posted about them, and use those comments and topics to grow their business, and format it to satisfy the wants and needs of the consumers and clients. So, what I mean is to use them to grow, and improve what they have already started.
Another thing I think is very intriguing is the usage of hoax blogs through the past. These have gotten very negative impacts, but these only happened after the revalation of them being fake. There have been two very big blogs in history that were the biggest hoaxes. One of them was a written blog, and the other was a video blog. These both had very interesting views to them as the two stories continued, but after a while, they were revealed to be fakes. However, the video blog was meant to be fiction from the beginning, so this made the views even more odd. Furthermore, these blogs eventually helped to increase the amount of popularity that blogging has today.
That was the biggest shocker to me surprisingly, and, overall, I think that Blogging was a unique book to read, and I would recommend this book to either bloggers, history buffs (people who like to learn history) for the internet, and anybody in general who would like to read a good book.
Until the next post, keep following me here. I'd like to see some comments please! :)
- Jake
I found the blogging book to be an eye opener as far as its popularity and how widespread it has become, which i didn't expect. Actually, I really didn't think anyone blogged! I don't even know anyone who blogs until now. Also, your presentation had a lot of questions which were great to ask the class, it made me think about my essay too, and what I needed to reevaluate. So thank you! And best of luck on your blog and essay as well! You are doing great!
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