A blog entry on... blogs

This is, for the record, the 6th blog I start. Somehow I either forget to update with new entries or sometimes I just don’t have anything interesting to say (as one of my favorite professors indirectly told me, being this more likely to be the truth, and God bless him for letting me know so I can make a better use of my brain now). After all, why should I waste words that won’t be of any interest for anyone but me?

I look back into my old blogs and I can’t stop laughing on embarrassment reading those good-old entries on restaurants I visited or those haiku poems and the very sad entries of me dreaming about living in England…*stops*. Ermm… Is this boring you?

I know; it bores you to read about my life, after all, who am I? I wouldn’t say the typical cliché of “I’m just a regular girl trying to make it herself in life” but I haven’t appeared on TV either; I haven’t done or been involved in anything that you might find interesting, I reckon. But hey! Let’s be fair about it and say that I’m interesting on my own way. You disagree? You don’t care? Whatever, it doesn’t surprise me at all, why would you? At the end you have more interesting things to do, you say.

Anyhow, if I stop and think about what is the purpose of a blog, I don’t quite find the answer; if is not for you to feel free of publishing your thoughts and share them to the world and then find out that maybe some other people might been feeling like you (or not) and then create brand new ideas, then why creating a blog?

As I’ve been researching there exist different kinds of blogs: video blogs (vlogs), photoblogs, etc, each one of them with one purpose and way of transmitting some kind of information, feeling or thought. And then, there are different genres for each of these types of blogs. So basically you are completely free to express yourself and even create new forms of art, online.

However, let’s not be pretentious about it, is not that just because you own a blog, everyone will read it, actually, for some people the fact the they are being read by other people has no meaning what so ever. What is important for a blogger, I’m talking about me here, is the fact of being able to put some thoughts together and keep a record on it, like having you own little magazine where you can even design your own layout and make it look however you like. And no, It’s not a Barbie dear diary, no is not an “emo” pseudo-suicidal plan journal, it is way more than that, it’s a whole new world of even self-discovery.

Also, as I’ve been learning lately, blogs are not only a part of an entertaining medium, but they also can work as a secondary research tool on any topic you want to learn about, as many of the entries can be links to other websites containing further or more interesting information about that topic you are researching.

Blogs have had a great impact on politics too, as for each entry other people can also contribute with their opinion and thus create an in-depth analysis on the situation. These topics can go from Euthanasia to the economic meltdown. The means of this kind of blogs will depend on their popularity, so the number of readers it’s meaningful in this case.

In sum, blogs are one of the widest and more accessible medium of online communication nowadays that can be used by anyone with a desire of posting “stuff” and play “the message in the bottle” kind of game.

Concluding, from my grandma’s blog, where she posts her delicious recipes to the world, to celebrity gossip blogs, where you can lively learn about the hottest scandals of your favorite (or not so) star, I just can’t deny the awesomeness and power of the web-log world.