An information blog is http://cookingwithamy.blogspot.com/ . I enjoy cooking and I found this info blog with recipes, and restaurants to try.
The ‘vanity’ blog I decided to use belongs to a friend of mine. Its his Myspace blog so I could not post it here. There are many personal things in it and knowing the author rather well, many of his posts mean a lot to me. Knowing him for, and what he’s been through in, the past 9 months makes his blog important to me. I take it even more to heart since the blog belongs to my boyfriends older brother. This type of blogging really does not support print journalism. It’s focus is on personal ideas and matters that only affect those who choose to read it. A good info. Blog must be informative and helpful about the topic. A blog about cooking that only talks about the food would not be a good example of an info. Blog. My friend’s blog is a perfect example of a vanity blog because it is about him. He does not complain about what he dislikes, what isn’t going right in his life, and what he wants to change. All of his posts tell stories of recent events in his life and how they’ve changed him. I wish you all knew him and could read his blogs because the thought and meaning that he puts into them is hard to describe here.
This research neither supports of un-supports my thesis. This type of blogging is different than that of a zine or an online newspaper. It is written for people of that specific interest to gain more incite into the topic.
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I think that most My space blogs are vanity blogs. But it is nice to know that other people are using it for more important reasons. I'm glad your friend has transformed the outlook of My Space for a better reason.
Hey Lauren, I liked your blog article here. Like you I found the links that I found do not support journalism at all nor unsupport it. Although I think it is possible for an information blog to be journalism related (such as a music artist blogging about their work or a whitehouse staff blogging about their day to day life). The biggest problem I find with blogs is that they aren't credible like CNN or Fox News - you have to take the author's word for it. Nonetheless, they are interesting and impacting journalism in my opinion. Nice blog article!
I liked how you used your friends myspace blog as the vanity blog. Before this project I never really knew what a blog was and none of my friends on myspace posted blogs, but now I see.
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