Blogs and how they affect our community

Blogs are web logs that are updated regularly by the author themselves. Each blog contains information of different topics. Blogs are also used as diaries about people's personal lives, views, even social commentaries. It gives the author an opportunity to write unique information to you and your readers. Today, blog's are used for many different purposes. Some companies use blogs to communicate with the customers and other stake holders. Newspapers incorporate blogs to their website to offer their writers a new channel. Some individuals creates blog to share their interest and their expertise on specific topics. (Varlack J. 2009)


Blogging has become something very big in today's society. Blogging is a new form of journalism. Internet has given the chance to anyone to be a journalist today. Blogging does not help anyone to go all out in the mainstream media but it is also a source for people who are searching for reliable news. Bloggers and their blogs can help the community a lot by allowing them to hear what actually happened around us by reading different blogs and different opinions. An example of incident that happened around the world was the September 11 attack. Bloggers helped people to know about the actual story of what happened. More popular blogs have higher credibility for people to trust what they say in their post because of the experience people have while reading their blogs previously. 

.Jeslyn.

Reference

1. Varlack J. 2009, MedNet Technologies, What are Blogs, viewed on 23rd May 2012, http://www.mednet-tech.com/newsletter/blogs/what-are-blogs

2. Branum, J 2001, The Blogging Phenomenon, JMBzine.com, viewed 23rd May 2012, http://www.ajy.net/jmb/blogphenomenon.htm