What is a blog? - Kelsey McLeod

Kelsey McLeod explains in his own words what a blog is. The clip was shot in Rome on March 13th 2006. - "A blog is... well, I would say that a blog is where people can go, a sort of free of any kind of editing at all, post their opinions on, well, depending on the blog, pretty much any subject that they are interested in, and amazingly they are able to get an immediate feedback from the virtual world out there, which is millions of people, and touch base on lots of interesting subjects, whatever is interesting to them.

I would say a blog is kind of a nucleous of ideas that people contribute to freely and take from as well, so it's sort of a networking hub of ideas.

Main advantage of using a blog... I think, you talk to real people.

...I use blogs as technical resource a lot of times. Hi-tech companies and software companies often are helpful but it's too laborious to go through official channels to try to get answers for how come this product doesn't work with this product or how do I tweak this software to get it to do exactly what I want it to do. Or why cant I get my cell phone to sync up with my computer, with my laptop, you know, it's supposed to do it, but it doesn't, so how did you guys get it to be done? ... So you read the blog, I guess you could call me...a "lurker", I'm the person who kind of like sits there and I read all the entries... I don't contribute that much really but I read the conversations and I come to some conclusions like "oh this thing never worked", or maybe I hear rumors that maybe the company is promising a fix so I say "oh I will check that in a month"... so people kind of guide me and help me on my road there.

Other than that, a blog is sometimes useful to get your feelings out, you know, on a subject that might be particularly touchy if your are feeling really outraged about some subject, then maybe you feel strongly enough that you go and go to your blog and you really get it off your chest and hopefully there are like-minded people who will give you some credibility and say yes, you know, you are right, they make us upset too. So it's a way to associate with people who have a like-mind.

Alternative source of information? I think I touched that a little bit when I was saying about how people talk about things and you dont hear directly from the person who has the biggest commercial interest in the product that you are looking for. Again, I'm looking mostly out for product stuff. So I would say that's probably the biggest advantage, just being able to get the unofficial point of view on something."

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