Blogs are still new and upcoming things, but they seem to be a positive, interest-sharing idea. Blogging is more like a virtual club by my point of view. People who like a topic, google the topic, and may be led to a blog where many people with the same interests congregate virtually. Meeting people who share a common interest is almost never a bad thing. It provides idea sharing across a state, country, or even across oceans.
Even though blogs are great, some blogs are done better than others. The Sartorialist, for example, is a blog focusing on fashion and the variants of such, yet it feels almost as if photos are being spat out on a web page to me. Fashion itself is widely varying and coexists everywhere, and yet this blog makes it hard from the front page for someone to feel connected and like they are a part of the fashion scope of the world. On the other hand, it is well organized if the front page does not throw any interest one had out the window. Other blogs focus on connecting more to the reader and creating an atmosphere that is both comfortable and offering interesting snippets of information. In the science blog, Watts Up With That? the very title is comfortable as it expresses a humorous play on words. Upon further exploration of the blog, it shows many different topics all with the same level of comfort. The article How Climate Change is Fubar offers researched and supported information about climate change and a title that peeks anyone's interest. Some blogs, such as The Norse Mythology Blog, do a decent job of catering to their audience but fail to attract new people. If you were to follow this one or a blog like it, you would have to know a good chunk of information going to be able to participate. Even if you do know your Noric Mythology, moving about the blog can be difficult. I am not sure if good information balances this out or not as that is for the veteran audience to decide.
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