A New Way Of Spamming? Blogging.

I once thought that books were the best and only way,for that mattter, to express oneself for the public to read. A year ago I was introduced to a more conservative and better way of being able to express yourself without having to worry about what a New York Times editor or analyst might have to critique. This wonderful way of writing about what ever your mind wants is also known as blogging. "The word "blog" is a portmanteau term for Web log or Weblog" (Sarah Boxers blog) We as readers never really know what sources we can and which sources we cant trust, many of us find blogs online and automatically assume it is a college professor's work. Like I mentioned before I've neevr really been fond of blogs because I didnt know they existed,(may seem ignorant) but I didn't. So, like we learned last year in PDR our mind only notices what it wants to see, I cant assure you that almost everyone in this classroom had encountered a blog and neevr knew the significance that, that piece of writing held. I then began to notice blogs ALL of the internet, everything was blogs, blogs this, blogs that, I had enough. I then understood the importance of why there were so many, "there are, by one count, more than 100 million blogs in the world, with about 15 million of them active." (Sarah Boxer) I couldnt believe this statistic, and began to ponder why it was so popular to write blogs, "Reading blogs, it's pretty clear, is not like reading a newspaper article or a book. Blog readers jump around. They follow links. They move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page." (Sarah Boxer) This was very intriguing because I then understood why blogs were so famous and why they were used to so much.

Blogs, in my opinion are the only time that you wont be criticized or graded on your punctuation or structure(wink wink Mr. Tangen). Another very interesting thing that I read in the article was that bloggers may tend to drift off their topic and begin to click on links. They may begin discussing the Elements that make up an Atomic Cell and by the time they realized their on Wikipedia reading about Napoleans conquest of Europe. All these factors make up what is essentially a blog, a writing corner (if you will) that allows you to be true to who you are, let nothing hold you back.