Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Blog: Mystery?

A) The word blog actually came first from the owner of a website called Robot Wisdom. He created the word "Weblog" and then the author of a 'weblog' called Peterme divided it until said word was "We Blog." That made Blog, a word in itself.

B) Books and blogs are different, not only in their substance but also how they are in general. Books are actual bindings of paper, novels that take serious time to read, and keep you limited within their back-to-back covers, as the author so puts it. Blogs, on the other hand, are random, simply put. They are wild in the way that they consist of whatever comes to mind to the writer, in no consequential order. Books are copyrighted and in the case of libel, and showing the piece off as your own work, it's cause for a case suit. Blogs are freedom, liberty to do write as you please, however you choose to do it. With pictures, videos, gossip, quotes, etc.
The author thought, "How can a book be made out 'of bloggy material.'" He thought it would kill it.

C) Blogs have changed today in their content. Some people are actually writing about global causes, recent world news, scientific discoveries, some of which are acceeding the spread of new from the actual media. Today, you can read about a lot of serious issues on blogs, and not have to expect that all of them are false.

D) A blog has direct links to absolutely everything. Pictures, videos, other websites. When the reader fails to understand something in the blog entry, usually there is some form of linkage to something that will leave your doubts behind, making it that much easier and that much clearer, to read a blog, rather than a book or a newspaper.

D) There is a reason to question the objectivity of a blog in certain circumstances. Obviously, most blogs are written by regular people just like you that probably don't know what they are talking about exactly and the only thing they have to offer is their personal prized opinion. There are some blogs, that pertain to certain newspapers and certified sources, in which case you can mostly find cold hard facts on issues, unless we're talking about editorials. So you can question the objectivity of a blog when it leans towards a side or starts showing negative or positive sides to one face of the story.

E) My blog would most likely be just about me and random things and notions that seem to take up my mind. So the title of my blog would be: "A New Side To Random"

F) billtotten.blogspot.com
peopleandresourcesfire.blogspot.com
globalizarte.blogspot.co,


. Making a book out of bloggy material, if it could be done at all, would kill it, wouldn't it?[1]

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