Blogging

I read an article called "Understanding Blogs" and it was very helpful for anyone who had no idea what a blog was before they read the article and it even gave facts that people who may know a lot about blogs would not know. I knew a bit about blogs before this article since I used to blog every once in a while, but I was never a serious blogger. The article stated facts such as when blogs were popularized, around when they were created, and what they were considered to be when they were first created.

The article went on to talk about how blogs can benefit businesses, advantages of blogs, and how and where to create blogs (they meantioned blogger.com as a good website to create a blog actually).

I think that this was a very good informational article about blogs but I believe it should have talked more about how people use it just for every day personal use, not just businesses. I also believe that when they said that the future of blogging is business blogging, that isn't completely true.

What I think is the future of blogging, and it has been done before, is blogging for charities. There is a weekend every year that people will choose a charity and blog to earn money for that charity as long as they blog every hour or so and they keep everything active. I believe that they should have this more than just one weekend a year and that everyone should be involved. Everyone can choose a charity, create their blog or use an existing one, and for every post they make on that blog, they would earn money for their charity. Possibly, if it got popular, people could earn money for the charities based on how many comments they get or how many views their blog gets. People can already earn money for themselves just by having a blog open, why not earn money for charities just by writing about nothing in particular in a blog? I think that would be the future for blogging, something everyone should consider.