A: What is the difference between a blog and a book?
B: How have blogs changes recently?
C: Why might you read a blog?
D: Is there a reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
E: If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?
A: Their are many differences between a blog and a book. First of all, a blog is an electronic "forum" type of media, it is abstract, while a book is a concrete object that you can touch, and that is made on paper. Also, you usually have to pay to get a book, while blogs you can acces free of charge; however, the biggest difference between a blog and a book is its content. In a book in order to guide your reader through the narrative in the book, everything has to be explained either in an explicit way, or in an obvious implicit way so the reader nows what you are talking about. In the contrary, a blog is a forum type of space provided by the blog creator to discuss with people around the world about a commun subject. Due to this fact, their exists a unique terminology, or unique facts, that are not explained since the author considers that every person participating in the discussion knows this; however, most blogs have links to the unlimited sources of information that exist on the internet to explain the certain terminologies. When this happens, you enter into the "art" of blogging which in a book is not possible to do.
B: Before, during the 1980's the first forms of blogging appeared as on-line newspapers, newsgroups, on-line diaries, etc. however, the blogging we know in the present day started to influence the world in the year 1998 where the "Blood notes" became common where instead of posting much commentary, links were left for the people to follow. Then, in the year 1999 the blogging took a huge step when "build-your-own-web-log tools" came into the internet; although, in the year 1999 the tools for building a simple blog came out, it wasn't until the early XXI century that blogging really became famous where millions of people created their own blogs. Before, when blogging was knewly created, a blog was a useful source of information that rellied on outbound links that point on other web-sites to find information, blogs were a space for opinion and discussion. Now, the links that most matter in a blog are, in contrast to the outbound links, the inbound links which are placed by blog creators in other blogs so the web-surfers can find them. Now a days, bloggers instead of posting usefull information, they post attractive information in order to lure web-surfers to see their blogs. A constant competition is now going on between blog creators, and the one who is the famous wins.
C: In a blog you may read two types of information. The first one may be video clips, and other types of information that are useless for learning, they are just made to attract readers. The second and most important information you may encounter in a blog is unique facts and perspectives about controversial subjects which can vary in any subject. This information is most of the times updated every day, giving the reader fresh and new information about the subjects read.
D: Yes, there is a reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog. Well, blogs are usually, if not always, expressing free opinions of every reader on the web making a subjects infromation vary from post to post. And, although some posts have other links to back up their opinion about the subject treating, the information will always be altered depending on the perspective you as a reader is seeing.
E: If a kept my own blog I would probably choose its name depending on the subject it's about, since I can have many blogs. For example, if my blog is about Kung-Fu, I would name it after the style or styles of Kung-Fu I wish to disscuss about with other people in the world.
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