“Why Blog?” Notes

Summary:

• The beginning of this little article talk about how most students specifically college students were mot motivated to write. They were having little to no interest in writing. Most teens preferred to be on their device, so blogging keeps them motivated more than actually writing on paper. This way this keeps the teens more engaged and interested. People have different views on blogging. Some may find it easy to blog while others find it more complex. It all differ and people do not really truly know what blogging is about. When blogging first came to be a thing on the internet, not a lot of people blogged. Only the minimal few blogged, but they talked about problems like politics, news, current events, etc. Rarely about interest or personal life like it is today. Today people blog about a wide range of topics like funny cat videos to something like a good song they recommend others listening to. It’s almost like a form of social media recording your life for memories or for others who are interested in. Blogging left you thinking what you want your blog to be about and how others are going to perceive it. You constantly want to generate ideas to put out to everyone to see to keep yourself motivated while keeping the readers interested. Not everyone is perfect, so people do reflect and critic on your blogs in order to improve your posts in the future. That is the perfect was way to also generate ideas and connect with others through your interest.

Main Idea and Key Term:

• Blogging is not something that everyone can do, in fact it is something hard to do for some people because they don’t know much about how to blog.
• Setting up a blog is complicated for some people who doesn’t know the proper way to set up.
• Blogsphere: relates to all the opinions, articles, etc. that are published by people on blogs or media.
• Brainstorming: coming up with ideas or way to solve or create something.
• RSS (Real Simple Syndication): uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information.

Commentary:

• Alex went on further into more detail about the whole layout of the blog. As he explained it he talked about good decisions to what your blogs are would look like. You can change things like templates and background to keep your blog modern and updated. That way if you don’t like your layout you can change it. Alex Reid did a pretty good job explain the importance of the layout that I never really thought about. For me, I thought creating a layout the way that fits your taste is the best way to get yourself comfortable with your blog. Changing things around doesn’t seem too hard because you can always change things back. Alex also mentioned something about hot to define a blog can be difficult when thinking about what to write, I notice when I’m not thinking too hard while typing, I can make blogging more easy. As long as the topic relates to you and your interest, ideas can generate really quickly. Know who your target audiences are, kind of like business, you set up a business, generate what products you want, why are you create this product, and who your target consumers are. So like blogging, set up your blog, generate what kind of blog you’re writing about, why are you making a blog about this topic, and who is your reader, your target audience. Although you may have target audiences, not everyone will agree with you. Some will argue against your topics, but do not be afraid to have that as a way to alternate or idea generator.