Week 1 Response: Alex Reid, 'Why Blog? Searching for Writing on the Web'

This article was full of information on how to write an effective Research Paper. It gave many guidelines on how to improve your paper and how to connect to your audience. He presents us with so many ideas and uses of blogs. The main advantage of a blog according to me is that we can use it for sharing our own personal experiences and views with the whole wide world, just like I am doing right now. The fact that we can use any style, to be precise our own style makes blog writing much more fun and interesting. The author talks about how the first blog site was created back in 1997, and it was called initially called “WEBLOG” which was later on shortened to just “BLOG”. We all know how important these blogging sites have become today. There would be hardly anyone who wouldn’t be using blogging websites in today’s world. The author mentions many blogging sites that have gained much attention in the past few years, which was a good way to attract people to use blogs. It not only gives us information about the world but also a way to connect to millions of people and share our thoughts as well as read theirs.