Saturday, October 27, 2007

Info Blog v. Vanity Blog

Vanity Blog: Sneakermind.Blogspot.Com
Info Blog:www.myspace.com/tcooo

Sneakermind.blogspot.com is a vanity blog that belongs to one of my friends. I think it's a perfect example of what a vanity blog should be. Includes interesting updates and pictures so as not to leaving you hanging without a visual of what he's actually doing. It's also a way to display his photography skills. It keeps the reader entertained on the intellectual front as well as the visual.

Myspace.com/TCOOO is a blog that is run by 4 Rastafarian Reggae musicians. Their daily blog always has opinions on current issues in politics, society, media, the entertainment business, as well as some specialty areas. Their writing is always informative, never incorrect, and never too biased. They even have a few comical blogs for pure joking purposes. Their blogs have a few hundred loyal readers who constantly comment, argue, agree, and come back everyday to read their stuff. This is the perfect example of an info blog.

I think blogging supports this type of journalism better than print media because there are people who like to connect with people and see what's going on in their lives, people like to see what other interests other human beings have or just to connect with someone who may relate to them. On the internet people tend to talk to each other alot, but you don't always get to directly have someone post their daily happenings or post pictures to let you into their lives.

Also many people want information and are tired of going to cnn or reading a regular informative magazine because of the bias, the advertising, the same stories, without real opinions. People want to go to info blogs to of course gain information and also to converse with other human beings whether it be a positive discussion or a heated online argument people just like to connect and learn.

on a scale of 1-5 I give this a 5.

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