3.5.) Blog reflection

Before the unit my experience with blogging were hardly existing at all. O.k. I read a few blogs before but did not had a clue how to set one up or an idea what kind of medium a blog can be.
In general I think a blog offers a good a affordable platform to communicate one’s thoughts to a wide community. It is not a very directed medium as the community thereby is anonymous so one does not really no, who he or she will reach with his or her blog.
Thereby blogging has got some advantage were somebody for example wants to speak some exotic topic were people interested are widely spread geographically.
Apart from citizen journalism and personal blogs there is a bewildering wide area and purposes blogs are dealing with. Coming from the German blog watch side you can find blogs to the following main groups:


-Society
-Business
-Live
-Country
-Travel
-Sport

For some of these topics I find a blog a very useful instrument. So for example travel blogs offer a cheap and authentic source of information where to go and to stay, when going abroad. O.k. everything has to be read with some common sense. On the other and I find blogs about sports relatively stupid. If I would like to have some information about my local team I watch it in the TV, if I want to have a good analysis of the game I go to my local pub and discuss it with my mates -> hence no room for blogs at all.

So overall the usage of blogs to me is very much dependent on the topic or theme the blog is related to. For myself I doubt that I become a devoted blogger, not because I dislike blogging but because I am to busy normally.