What do you think about blog and their influence?

Answer 1

let me tell you about power of blog. now readers tend to trust what is written in blogs rather than newspaper, that's what i heard. but i think people might have misunderstood it. it doesnt mean we believe every single thing that has been blogged. it's just that, dont you think reading blogs is more intersting than going through the newspapers? see, newspapers vs magazines. why you prefer magazines? simply because the languge, word order and way or writing is more entertaining and less heavy like newspapers (not time though, consider reader's digest).

so, blogs are written by commons, i mean, those which dont go through any editorial process before being published. so, the languages, the words used, slang and way of writing is more entertaining, light and they may feel as if your friends telling you something. but it might be misleading. i'm talking about the accuracy. in singapore, couple of weeks ago, the paper reads the government might make the bloggers registered. that's just a plan. they worry about the misleading news and issues that bloggers try to feed over the internet since the readers will just simply buy the stories.

Answer 2

I blog, heavily, more now than ever because I'm caught in the PPP web. Rarely though, does anyone really comment on, or even view what I'm truly blogging about. Most of my traffic is for the ads that I write. Blogging is like anything else; you buy a magazine or newspaper, you say you're going to read it end to end but at the end of the day you read a few choice articles and put it down. There are very few magazines you'll actually read end to end, GQ if you have enough time, or Esquire. Woman's magazines don't interest me much, though I will take a look for choice articles. Anymore the best magazine is Psychology Today, though I used to read Wired end to end.

At the end of the day people read about 5% of my content, some see some tags they like and search for other articles, most just read the ads, either because they're shorter in length or more concise than the actual articles. So no I don't think blogs have much of an influence, if any at all. Those blogs that do, either have like 30 contributors, or they stick with hot topics, like politics or entertainment. Then again people are good for reading articles I've written a few years ago, so maybe it takes time for people to catch onto it.

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