Why I Blog

“Why I blog,” by Andrew Sullivan was very interesting to read. First of all many people either knows about blogging or don’t. I had never really follow any blogging until recently this fall per our writing communication class. I agree with Andrew Sullivan “Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” There are many different types of bloggers, all with different agendas and motivation. In order to get the most from blogging it is important to understand why you are blogging. Without a clear understanding of why you need a blog it’s impossible to develop goals and guidelines to meet your blogging objective. It can also help to understand why other bloggers may be blogging. Here are a few blogs that I’ve come across what bloggers have blogged about: Political or Religious Blogs, Family or Social connections, Personal Journals, and Business and brand building. People write blogs as a way to express themselves and their knowledge or expertise. They are also used to educate people and as a leisure activity. Blogging has emerged as one of the unique and most promising career on the Internet. Other people write on blogs to offer good tips, advice and knowledge. People read blogs as a source of information or because they find the writer interesting. Per Sullivan, “The blog remained a superficial medium, of course. By superficial, I mean simply that blogging rewards brevity and immediacy. No one wants to read a 9,000 word treatise online. On the Web, one sentence links are as legitimate as thousand word diatribes- in fact, they are valued more.”