When I was asked to start a Blog for my ‘Writing in the Media’ course, I didn’t know what I should write about? What can little old me possibly bring to the already overcrowded world of blogging?
According to BlogPulse, an automated trend discovery system for blogs, there are over 100 million active bloggers online; in just the last 24 hours 25,545 blogs have been created.
After trawling through the diverse world of blogs; I concluded that what makes a blog unique is the person behind it. Bloggers range from students to OAPs, from people living in the big smoke to country bumpkins; the list is end-less.
How do I match up to the ‘average blogger’? According to the Blogosphere 2009 report: two thirds of bloggers are male, 40% have graduate degrees and over half are married. As I’m a single, female, student – my potential to be relatively unique remains intact.
Bill Gates once coined the phrase “Content is King” so bearing this in mind: what do people blog about? After surfing the Internet, I discovered, unsurprisingly, that the content is as diverse as the writers. Some blogs are based around specific topics, whilst others are written as a personal journal; either way, blogs share experience, opinions and advice.
Blogs maintain different levels of popularity, this made me question if there is an ‘art’ to blogging? Darren Rowse (http://www.problogger.net/)fashioned a website to help even the most boring personality or the most techno-phobic, build a blog. He even a published a book “31 Days to build a better blog”
Blogging is the most accessible publishing forum in the world. I could reel off more facts about blogging, but I have more opinions to read, more information to discover and a lot more blogging to do.
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