Blogs are a great way to get your voice out there and to inform people about different things and also to get to know people that you’ve never met before. Blogs can be professional, personal, or corporate, so that they can be enjoyed by different people that like different things. I read two blogs, NME (https://www.nme.com/) and Fast Company (https://www.fastcompany.com/). I believe that the two blogs are different but at the same time are fairly similar. One blog (NME) reports on Music, TV, and Celebrities while the other (Fast Company) reports on the recent news, technology, and work life.
Let me begin by explaining different
blogs and what each of them do. There’s a variety of different blogs, but for
right now, I’ll just explain 3 types of blogs. Professional, personal and corporate.
The first example of blog types I’ll be
discussing is professional blogs, which are blogs that are seen as professional
and informational to the readers. Professional blogs are usually seen not to entertain
the reader but to get the reader to learn about things going on in the real world.
Some examples of professional blogs are, Fast Company, New York Times, Wired, and
many others.
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| Professional blogs also may include professional workplaces |
The second example of blog types I’ll be discussing is personal blogs, which are blogs that are there to talk about yourself and your life and to keep others informed of what you’re doing in your day-to-day life. Personal blogs can be about posting what you eat in your day or to even post about what you do every day. People with person blogs usually talk about their own experiences/stories they have or just talk about their day to keep their family and friends updated on their life. Personal blogs can also be used to just talk about your opinion on things such as movies/tv shows or even music.
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Personal blogs are most of time to let others know about your day-in-a-life or your family updates |
The third and final example of blog types I’ll be discussing is corporate/music blogs, which are blogs that are made to talk about music and different artists or tv shows/movies. An example of this is NME, Rolling Stone, Hot New Hip Hop, Pitchfork, Louder, Loudwire, Far Out Magazine, and many more. They are simply there to inform/entrain the readers, the readers are entertained reading about the new music coming out, while it’s also informing the reader about new artist and about new tv shows coming out. All these blogs have differences and similarities to each other.
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| The Beatles performing, photo taken by Rolling Stone |
All the blog types are great
because of the diversity and the different options for readers to be able to read
about, that can range from personal stories to the news. Two blog sites that I
think highlight about how I believe blog sites are great for different readers is
NME and Fast Company.
I’ll start
by first talking about NME, the blog site NME reports about the music
industry and celebrities and the next moves in their careers. What I like about
this blog is that their accurate and fast with their information and what they
post, they also seem to make sure that peoples voices are heard so they get people
to make statements about the situation/problem that’s happening. Although, something
that I don’t like about this blog is that they don’t really talk about underground
artists or more unknown artists. I just personally like when music magazine
talk about underground/not well-known artists and talk about their music and
basically interview them. I like how Bomb Magazine (https://bombmagazine.org/) does that very
well, they professionally interview underground artists about not only their
music but the artists as well.
I’ll end with talking about Fast
Company, the blog site Fast Company reports about the news, technology, and
work life. What I like about this blog is that they seem to be up-to-date on the
issues going on with people. Also, they seem to interview people the article is
talking about, its not only the opinion of the writer, but it also starts to be
about the opinion of others. For example, they did a post about what’s going on
in the world and they talked to the CEO of the company that the article is
about. They like to know the truth and like to quote reliable people that work at
said places.
I believe that blogs are great for
people to learn new things and to inform others. I also think that they are a
way to entrain people. Also know that there are always good/bad things about a
blog but that doesn’t mean you should discourage them.
