Answers Questions First HW

A. What is the diffrence between a blog and a book?

A blog is a site where people can comment on many different subjects of interest, it’s used to link the information you have and want to share to that of many others, who have information on the same topic they want to share. A blog has the advantage to be an only online source where hyperlinks can be placed to take readers to other pages of interest to the author or that have information on the blogs topic. A book in the other hand is a printed writing in which the information has to be complete in order to give the reader the knowledge he is looking for.

B. How have blogs changed recently?
The blogs have changed a lot in the past years, in the beginning the blogs were used to post important information but then they became a way for people to communicate with others and share their thoughts in a specific topic. The word blog comes from the word “web log” which was shortened to the actual “blog” in 1999, when Peter Merholz separated the word into “We Blog”. There are about 15 million active blogs today that cover almost any topic anyone would like to look for.

C. Why migt you read a blog?

I might read a blog to find information about a specific topic I like or to find the opinion of others in pieces of literature or any other type of topic I like. In blogs anyone can post their opinion without having to worry for others point of view.

D. Is there a reason to dubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?

A blog is a free writing in which all pople can say anything they want. Most of the writings in a blog are opinions, which many times are biased depending on the writters preference or point of view. Most blogs arevery profesional and deliver a well writen opinion of the topic to all blog readers.

E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?

I would title my own blog depending to the topic that is to be discussed in the blog, but I would leave the title open to fit the different ideas that can be discussed or can emerg during the discussions that are taken place by the "bloggers".