HW:19 What is the real deal with blogs?

Response to paragraph on pg. 85 in Klein and Burstein's Blog!

On page 85 I found a paragraph that I felt contradicted everything this book has stated in previous chapters. In other words I felt that this paragraph was saying that not many people are blogging. Having just argued in previous chapters that blogging was so popular and the new "it" thing to be doing. This paragraph is contradicting that and saying that blogs have no meaning. "The typical blog written by a teenage girl who uses it twice a month to update her friends and classmates on happenings in her life" (pg.85) What? Incidentally the previous reading that I just did for this class was about how important and popular political blogging was, and how much money bloggers are making. My point is if blogging wasn't so popular, why would be bloggers be raking in so much money? This paragraph is almost in a way misleading. It contradicts previous statements that this book has made. However, I do find this paragraph to be an important one. It does show that there are different opinions on blogs, which this book has not made clear in past readings. It is important to recognize every ones views on what they think to be important subjects.Blogs are changing the world one step at a time. By becoming more wide ranged they are allowing more voices to be heard. Essentially what I'm saying is that it is important to know where each person stands on the subject of blogging.