Blog Race

The first paragraph of this excerpt really got me thinking. When Sarah Boxer mentioned that she had received the idea of making an anthology of blogs I was thinking “why didn’t this occur to anyone before” but through the reading I made myself aware that it wasn’t possible. As much as we’d like to have a bunch of blogs in one book, it just wouldn’t be the same experience. The fun and you may call it even purpose of going through blogs is to choose your own path because as Sarah said “Bloggers breeze through places, people, texts, and blogs that you might or might not know without providing any helpful identification”. I like to think of the blog network as a giant tree and an important part of being a blogger is to find your way through the branches of the tree checking anything that you want out, including profile information from the author, other post that he/she might have made apart from where the link took you to. So my opinion is that Sarah received the idea of writing an anthology of blogs in a book not because it would be interesting to read blogs in a book but because it simply is a great idea to carry all the experience blogging has to offer in something as handy as a book.

Unexpectedly blogging has become a very important media tool to divulge information about whatever the blogger wants to write about. To my impression from what Sarah Boxer has said, bloggers are willing to post anything if it guarantees them that they will have a high number of people reading their posts. Like it says in the last paragraph of the excerpt “One of the surest ways to hoist your blog to the top of the charts is to bring down a big-time politician or journalist.” Being it false or true bloggers will always write something that makes their blog a permanent transit of readers and fellow bloggers. “In 2004 many right-wing blogs helped the Swift Boat Veterans sink John Kerry's bid for the presidency” this proves that blogs have been a fast emerging way of communication that has the capacity to bring down a strong presidential career. Another way of keeping reading traffic in your blog is not only by yourself, but if you post really interesting things other bloggers will post links on their blog that lead to your blog and that a way to measure how popular your blog is. If your blog is really popular you’ll become a “blogebrity”.