Vanity Vs. Info

Info Blogs

http://travelaroundthe-world.blogspot.com/

This Blog was informing the reader about where to go in the world to find the best roller coasters. It was actually quite interesting. It gave you pictures of all the greatest roller coasters all around the world. It also gave you a video of someone riding the actual roller coaster for some of them. The person dedicated the site to what he believes are all the roller coasters someone needs to go to when traveling the world. He also gave his idea of the best hotels in those areas too. It was a pretty interesting and informational site on roller coasters.

http://forgivenesshelp.blogspot.com/

This blog I found very interesting because I can't imagine someone actually wanting to take the time to create a blog teaching people how to forgive but the person who wrote this blog obviously has a heart for forgiveness and wants to spread that. The blog is basically a guide line to teach someone how to forgive people. It gives you a list of things people could have done to you that you haven't been able to forgive. Then it gives you advice to choose the path of forgiveness rather then revenge. So once you have figured out that forgiveness is better it gives you a step by step list of how to forgive someone.

Vanity Blog

http://willysr.blogspot.com/

This blog was basically just a journal kept by a boy named Willy in Indonesia. He basically just wrote about whatever was on his mind or his opinions and views on things. He also informed the reader about his life and daily activities that went on. For example, He told a story about when he got stuck in a drivers license check while driving home one day. I guess that’s what they have in Indonesia; here we have drunk driver tests. In one blog entry he even talks about pumping into his old junior high teacher. This blog was basically a boy's opinion and his experiences that he feels the need to share with others.

For comparing and contrasting a Vanity blog with an Info blog I am going to use the site http://willysr.blogspot.com/ and http://travelaroundthe-world.blogspot.com/ . I'm comparing the site about the boy who lives in Indonesia and the site about roller coasters around the world. The similarities that these two blogs share are that they are both opinionated. The Vanity site is all about one boy's opinions and views on issues and what he deals with everyday. The Info site is someone giving their opinion about what they believe to be the best roller coasters in the world. The differences in these two sites is one is actually informational and you could obtain somewhat useful information where the other one is stories from a boy and his views on pointless things in my opinion. At least the site about the roller coasters I wanted to continue reading and was actually interested in the information in the blog. The boy Willy's blog to me was pointless. I don’t know Willy and his daily activities and his views mean nothing to me.

The Vanity blog there is no way this could have an impact on print journalism. This blog was pointless to read unless maybe you knew the person but otherwise it was someone voicing there opinion. The informational blog did have some great information but it was still someone's opinion and someone giving advice on where to go on vacation. Real journalism consists of real factual information that you can rely on.

I would say a good blog would be one just like the one on roller coasters (http://travelaroundthe-world.blogspot.com). This blog actually had a good point and decent information that many people would actual find helpful and would enjoy reading. The Vanity blog was more of a personal journal kept by someone about their life and no one really cares to read about what's going on in some random person's life. I personally don’t care.

The research that I did for this blog strongly supports my thesis. Blogging has not significantly impacted print journalism and it is never going to make a huge impact.