Blogging: Part 1

Insert your preferred choice of terminology here: blogsphere, blogosphere, blognation. Everyone has their own term for it. I find the term 'blogosphere' too close to 'Vogsphere' and its subsequent allusion to terrible poetry.

Though really, you can find the worst poetry on blogs too. via urantiansojourn

So there's all this talk about newspapers and how they're quickly being overhwlemed by their online counterparts. Often times, the community can break the news faster than most 'reliable' news sources can.

Blogs have developed from diaries to almost anything under the sun. It's replaced the homepages of the 90's (remember Geocities? Angelfire? Dreamhost!?). Where once you needed a fairly in depth idea of how to work either a WYSIWYG webpage maker or hand coding, today's world offers much easier outlets of expression.

Rather than diaries, although those still exist, they have become powerful sources of information, entertainmental awareness or even political movement. I don't want to be so serious and point to Middle Eastern protestors and their Arab Spring, or Chinese bloggers braving their state censorship. Instead, I'll show you Never Seconds.

Is. This. Food? via Never Seconds

This blog managed to change the direction of school lunches for children far more than Jamie Oliver. It's gotten more people involved in what their kids are eating. Today, its hit counter is just shy of eight million views.

All because a nine year old decided her school lunch was less than spectacular. Blogging is now easy access to anyone and it's an open, exciting world out there.