This is my first attempt at blogging. While researching this project I found a number of interesting things. I have been a steady newspaper reader for quite some time, over 30 years. What I find most impressive about blogs is the speed in which information can be found on the Internet. Many of the blog sites report information before it has been published in newspapers or on TV. The ease in which this information is found is incredible, a simple google blog search, and you are able to read almost up to the minute information on just about any topic. This concept of reading news from blogs could quite possibly put magazines and even newspapers out of business. I believe the only media industry that may survive is radio, as I think it may be the only possible media organization that could get the news out as quickly as a blog. But upon searching my favorite radio station, I find that they even have blogs http://www.640toronto.com/ . I am an avid outdoors man and I enjoy hunting and fishing. I did a simple google blog search for hunting and came up with this web site http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/sports/hunting , it is a directory of hunting web blogs. As I said earlier this web site with all the hunting blogs has prompted me to cancel most of my magazines subscriptions , the longer I surf the more likely I am to eventually cancel all of them. Although I am concerned that this type of thinking may have a negative impact on jobs, within the media industry, I feel my money is better in my pocket than in someone else's! The ease in which you can create a blog web page is amazing, the programs are so user friendly , that even my 67 year old mother thought it was interesting, she's going to try her hand at creating an online journal blog this week. http://www.blogger.com/ scores a 10 out of 10, it was very easy to use and just about anyone can become a professional blogger in no time at all.
TWITTER it is becoming quite popular. It was created by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, and began as a research and development project inside San Francisco podcasting company Odeo in March 2006( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter Jan 25 2009 7 pm). From what I understand it is a basic way to keep contact with others in a short precise way, much like Facebook,and MySpace. In twitter you must post your comments in 140 characters or less it is a way for people to let other people know where they are and what they are doing or going to do. These messages are called tweets. Twitter is basically blogging in a smaller format "micro blogging" . I found while looking around the net that blogging for me is better, because it is a more complete information package than twitter. Twitter although short, it gains your attention and leads you to blogs . Twitter in this case acts like a opening sentence or thesis statement on a essay it grabs your attention Blogs will no doubt not suffer or fall to the way side due to twitter. Although twitter will be popular in certain social cultures it could never replace a blog. We as people will always thirst for more information than what can be found in a twitter. Doing my first blog has been an eventful assignment I have found many hunting, fishing and news associated blogs, that I am sure I will be back to visit regularly now. I have been converted I will continue to blog in twitter in future.
