So what´s the hype with blogs? I never really understood the big deal or the point about blogs until I got to college. I always thought that they were pointless and uninformative. Little did I know, I was very wrong and they can be an incredible source for information or entertainment, or a little bit of both.
Blogs and personal websites have quite a few differences. I always thought that they were one in the same. Blogs enable people to leave comments and they are self-managed. A blog is a type of personal website with more interactivity, participation, and provides updated headlines and news articles from other sites.
This blog is my second blog. My first blog was for one of my classes at the University of Wisconsin called Intro to Television. My group was assigned the television network Showtime and i frequently wrote about shows like Shameless and the tactics that Showtime has used recently to make it a very competitive subscription network. I am so happy to be working on another blog and that I get to write about my abroad experience.
Blogs are an incredible source and something that I personally need to talk advantage of, as well as everyone else. They are entertaining, enjoyable, and opinions (whether truthful or not) about our society and how we function. There are probably blogs about almost every topic anyone could ever think of, and if a topic does not exist, it is so simple to create one. Significant events such as the tsunamis in Asia, Hurricane Katrina, are moments that have been displayed in blogs. It is sometimes the blogs that get the big story just captured even before major news stations.
I am now a big fan of blogs and understand their significance to myself and the rest of society. Some may see them as a waste of time like I used to, but they should be given a chance because they can be so insightful and provide you with so much more than you ever could have asked for.
Carly´s European Adventures 