Entry # 1: It's Blog, It's Blog, It's big it's heavy it's wood... wait wrong song

Blogs, the new and improved soap box. Blogs have changed quite a bit over years. About 21 years ago the first blogs, or weblogs as they were known, were not co-opted by main stream media but individuals. These weblogs were mostly online diaries allowing aspiring authors to scream into the void that is the internet. Only in 2004 did main stream media and other well known media outlets jump on the bandwagon of blogging. Blogs now are so common most of us don’t even know we are reading them. Who knows if you are reading one now???

Blogs can be a great idea if aimed toward the right audience. The biggest problem is finding the right blog for you because there are tons of blogs. I mean too many to count, literally. Blogger.com doesn’t even have a total number of blogs listed and they are the largest website offering them. Other sites have guesses totaling over the billions. I spent hours digging through the internet to find blogs I actually enjoyed. In my honest opinion most were drivel or crazy right wing rhetoric. A few I genuinely enjoyed and would read again were; Dot Earth, We Hunted the Mammoth and /film. For the bad I will only list one, if I didn’t I would be writing this blog until I graduate.

Dot Earth is a New York Times professional opinion blog by Andrew Revkin on the environment and politics that directly impact the Earth. This blog is well written, informative and the authors’ posts are current. If you are into environmental politics this is a great find. Don’t let the category of “opinion” discourage you from reading this blog, I found the posts to be more fact than opinion.
 


We Hunted the Mammoth is a professional casual blog by David Futrelle on feminist politics. This blog has a perfect combination of information and sarcasm to maintain it’s level of professionalism. It is chocked full of information and keeps the reader entertained with wit regardless of the depressing manor of the content. If you enjoy reading current events on fighting misogyny check out this blog.

 


/film is a professional blog by Ethan Anderton on television and movies. This blog is well written and keeps you up to date on T.V. and movies. The author gives you an insider look on your favorite programs and movies. So if you don’t just watch things but want to know what is happening behind the curtain definitely check out this one. 






Now for the bad. Stormfront is a personal blog website for Nazis. One blog I begrudgingly read by James Harting is on racism and hating non-white people. The amount of people posting on this site is disgusting, most posts I wasn’t even able to follow due to the horrific writing skills. Rather lack of writing skills. This author spews forth the worst kind of rhetoric, the dangerous educated kind. The kind of rhetoric that the uneducated flock behind. He uses fear mongering to gather his sheep and injects ignorance and hatred into their empty minds. I could barely make it to the end of his post. I was so filled with anger that this ignorant man-child has such a large platform for his Nazi propaganda. If you are into Nazis and pro-racism don’t tell me or we will share words in real life because I will find you and most likely words will not be the only thing shared. Google Stormfront. No I am not posting a link, I will not have that filth attached to my page.

My Apologies to end on such a sour note but "Just remember, the sweet is never as sweet without the sour, and I know the sour." - Vanilla Sky