My Blog About Blogging

The ability to spread written opinions used to be limited to writers with employed by newspaper and magazines. Blogging has opened the world to citizen journalists. Writing articles from various points of view. 

In Kwok Pui Lan  blog post  How Blogging Has Changed My Thinking and Writing; She talks about how blogging is different from other forms of writing. It's a fast medium that forced her to write quickly. She write about many current events, so has to be quick to stay on top of the 24 hours news cycle. To keep her material relevant she often found herself publishing posts at the end of the day right before bed. She also appreciates how wide of an audience a blog can impact. With comment sections, instant feedback can start conversation and open the writer and other viewers to varying opinion's. 

A post on the The Incidental Economist Blog talks about the good and bad of people writing blogs about academic articles. While some fear that taking research out of the context of academic writing is dangerous, since it dumbs down the information. Even thought that is a valid concern, most lay people will not concern themselves with reading scholarly articles. But a blog post that simplifies the information can spread the message effectively. A contributer to this post writes "I think that blogs can give you free space to think across disciplines and publish things that do not have a home in specialist journals. They also allow you to publish a more science-based commentary on current events than even an op-ed page will allow."

There will always be a need for educated and professionally employed journalists. But the way I see it  blogging has given people an outlet to express their particular view of the world. I’ve also gained a lot from writing a few blog posts. The desire to write a topical post forced me to solidify my opinion. After penning my words I knew exactly what I believed and exactly how to articulate my beliefs. In a TEDx talk given here at USU professor Mathew Laplant talks about how blogging has journalism from the perspective of the Journalist. The video is worth a look since it delves deeper into the way blogging has changed the face of journalism.