So I get this request from a young student who is trying to understand what blogs do for the blogger and the bloggee.
She wants to compare the blog metrics as they relate to the adult versus a kid blog. Good topic to blog on I thought.
Remember even Hollywood has found material to make a movie on this subject - sort of - mixing the recipes of a cook and a blogger in the form of Julie and Julia.
What I found interesting about the whole idea (of blogging that is) is that it allows a wandering mind (young or old) to find a forum to encapsulate its random thoughts and make them available to the world wide web of eyeballs to perhaps review (at no cost to the blogger) and potentially get a different point of view; to learn something new themselves; to discover a new concept or idea that may in turn lead to bigger and better things.
It is an instant publishing miracle of the 21st century that requires the blogger to be his or her own editor in chief. That said the blogosphere has definitely yielded voice to the once shy and withdrawn as well as served to be a channel to collect valuable information for those that make it their business to keep up with the social trends from statisticians to marketing executives to large brands that want a pulse of the public - again at very little cost.
It serves to provide a point or points of view on any manner of subject and does so unobtrusively since reading it is purely an opt in for the reader. Furthermore it allows the reader in question to also pose one of their own (question that is) to the author and continue a dialog or debate to explore the thought channels that once were impossible to comprehend given the geographical and time limits imposed. A blog is thus at once liberating and enlightening if nothing, for its ability to transcend people and places and be as ubiquitous in its presence as air itself.
With that it is time to go read someone eles's thoughts for the day!
Cheers.
She wants to compare the blog metrics as they relate to the adult versus a kid blog. Good topic to blog on I thought.
Remember even Hollywood has found material to make a movie on this subject - sort of - mixing the recipes of a cook and a blogger in the form of Julie and Julia.
What I found interesting about the whole idea (of blogging that is) is that it allows a wandering mind (young or old) to find a forum to encapsulate its random thoughts and make them available to the world wide web of eyeballs to perhaps review (at no cost to the blogger) and potentially get a different point of view; to learn something new themselves; to discover a new concept or idea that may in turn lead to bigger and better things.
It is an instant publishing miracle of the 21st century that requires the blogger to be his or her own editor in chief. That said the blogosphere has definitely yielded voice to the once shy and withdrawn as well as served to be a channel to collect valuable information for those that make it their business to keep up with the social trends from statisticians to marketing executives to large brands that want a pulse of the public - again at very little cost.
It serves to provide a point or points of view on any manner of subject and does so unobtrusively since reading it is purely an opt in for the reader. Furthermore it allows the reader in question to also pose one of their own (question that is) to the author and continue a dialog or debate to explore the thought channels that once were impossible to comprehend given the geographical and time limits imposed. A blog is thus at once liberating and enlightening if nothing, for its ability to transcend people and places and be as ubiquitous in its presence as air itself.
With that it is time to go read someone eles's thoughts for the day!
Cheers.
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