Weblogs and The Mass Amateurization

   The emergence of internet has brought in many differences. One of the most important emergence is the emergence of blogs. Blogs or weblogs are sort of a forum or a diary that is frequently updated by a single use or also known as a blogger or even a company. Weblogs are used for many different reasons such as advertise gadgets, own opinion or view point, notify about food and the places with good food, recent happenings and many others.

   In this 21st century, the arrival of the internet has brought upon many different ways to create revenue for on self if they know how to do so. This is possible even by blogging. usually bloggers create revenue through advertising. There are a number of companies out there that does research and looks for good blogs. these bloggers will then be contacted and will be asked permission if they could use their blogs to place ads. These ad placing  companies are very much aware that weblogs are one of the hot media used by many to gain access to different types of information thus using it to place ads is considered a good strategy to target many people especially the teens.

   In terms of the content that is present, its is very much debatable. This is due to the reason that weblogs are not only maintained by a trained professionals every time, but there are also weblogs that are handled by ordinary people. Thus the content that we read from this types of blogs are actually unreliable due to the reason there is no proper facts to support them. Besides that, the term "freedom of speech" also plays a very important part in the evolution of blogging. Many ordinary citizen would like to tell what they feel or opinion to many but they are afraid that it will land them in a big problem. Thus another alternative rather than shouting out in the public is blogging whereby there will be many people that would come and read what you wrote (that is if the blog is interesting to read)

  We may compare which would be better. Some say books are better than weblogs and other may say vise versa. Actually it depends. Both media has its own pros and cons. When we look at a book, it is very dependable because it may have gone a series of editing before it is being published. But when we are looking for a fast information especially with a keyword in it, it is quite hard to find through a box of books. on the other hand, the blogs are very, fast easy to access and its free. However, the weblogs somehow lacks of credibility of the information and may not be trusted. thus everything has its ups and down and it depends on the user to make sure to try to get the best of both worlds.