Diversity in Blogging

I thought this assignment was really fun,  I had no idea that blogs were used to express such a myriad of factors. The biggest issue I had was that some of the websites like Twitter required you to create an account, otherwise all that was publicly available to read was the homepage .I don't like creating accounts for a lot of webpages because most of the time I forget the password or my login information and the whole experience takes longer then it should.  I had two favorite websites that I found; http://www.opendiary.com/ and http://womenonthefence.com/. I had my daughter a year ago and I wish I had known about the womenonthefence website because it has helpful posts relating to new moms which cover topics anywhere from how to set a sleep schedule to how to bring down a fever. I think it is really awesome that websites like this exist because I had a lot of questions and it would be create to just go online and read advice from fellow moms who are either experiencing the same problems or have already experienced them. The opendiary webpage was really humorous because people are just so open and honest about issues going on in their life. I think blogging is good for schools in the fact that students are able to find particular blogs that appeal to them and the more they do that the more they read, and these days it is a struggle to get students interested in reading. On the other hand, a lot of blogs disregard spelling and punctuation so the more a student reads those words and sees that punctuation the more likely they are to use the same and that just creates more problems in their writing.  Although opendiary and twitter are enjoyable websites, I would not necessarily consider them quality blogs. I think a quality blog has substance to the actual text and conveys a message, but a lot of blogs on opendiary just serve as a forum for people to communicate the struggles in their life, in other words they just serve as complaining modules. The tone of voice a blog uses is dependent on the type of blog being read, so for fashion blogs the jargon used is related to the fashion industry. Corporate blog websites like http://www.compendium.com/ are used to relay a business message or  history, basically to get the word on a company out to the general public. Corporate blogs are more professional then personal blogs, which makes a lot of sense. I noticed that most of the blogs I read are not particularly long, and I think that is because a lot of people do not read like they used to, but rather they skim to find the main points. Blogs are condensed so that people can quickly find the answers or main topic  they are looking for without having to read a lot of material. My favorite blog so far was http://womenonthefence.com/2012/05/22/the-race-to-have-it-all/. I found Erica to be a really thoughtful writer and the topic intriguing.