What is a Blog?

A. The difference between a blog and a book is outrageously different. According to the review we just read, books are ideas that are organized and established within a certain structure. They have a way of being and they flow through out their content. A blog is a more disorganized system and it has a less complicated structure that may be to open for the public in some cases. A blog, being an electronic media to write and express your opinions, works rather fast and is constantly exposed before all users. Books, being more planed and structural are slower and are not out in the open for the public to comment on and interfere. Blogs live liberty for imagination and criticism, they give you the freedom to go beyond what has been written. A book holds you up between its pages. In a blog you can analyze pretty much anything that you want within the media and cyberspace. Books give margins that you can’t trespass.

B. Back in the 80’s, blogs were meant to give you certain cites and addresses that would take you to the sources you were really interested on finding when you saw that there was something special about its content included in another page. Nowadays, blogs are very personal and sometimes even son professional that in most of the cases, entering a new blog can be truly confusing. The blogers post new entries all the time and you have to be checking it constantly so that you don’t miss on anything significant. Today, people are interested more on finding links that point out other blogs. Now its not an “information source”, per say, but a world wide commentary and analysis cyber-organization. (just made it up) Blogers want to become popular within their community of blogers, and they will proceed to post revealing and controversial material in order to gain attention. Media and politicians also use blogers to gain recognition and therefore win support from the rest of the community.

C. I would read a blog to be informed of something that really interests me and that I am passionate about, in a level that I’m willing to get involved in discussions that may favor my point of view. I may also read a blog if a I want to get to know the person that wrote it or establish some social, economic, political, or educational relationships with that person and therefore to be more influential in the community. I may read a blog only because it supports one of my ideas and my commenting on it and linking my blog, more people would be interested in mine.

D. There are certainly many reasons to doubt the objectivity of a blog. As I mentioned before, many people have social, economic or political intentions when they create a blog. By doing this, they drive many attention towards themselves and gain a lot of popularity and even power. When a person posts a piece of writing, than will probably be very opinionated on a personal o political level, the blog is therefore subjective. It is based on the bloger’s criteria, with hidden intensions, which make it all about what that person thinks, and not what really is happening. Although all facts that may be posted are supposed to be objective, the perspective of each individual is in it’s essence subjective.

E. If I kept my own personal Blog I would call it “My version of happened.”
I would do this basically because I would narrate events that I have seen and I would give my opinions about them. It would all be my version, as all blogs are personal versions of subjects that may interest a group of people but commented on, in different ways.