What is a Blog?

What is it?

          

            A Blog can be a lot of different things. Ranging from political stances, personal opinions and just plain rants, people talk about everything on a blog. At its base, a blog is basically something that people use to talk about what’s going on in this crazy world of ours. Some people blog to inform, while others blog to complain; there’s no real wrong way to do it.

There was a girl in the high school that I went to that would blog every day. She never had anything thought provoking or extremely political to talk about, but she did like to talk about the delicious foods she cooked up and strange one’s she had eaten in her 16 years of living. If you visit http://www.101cookbooks.com/ you can find a much more professional blog about delicious food that’s kept up by a woman named Heidi Swanson. Heidi has accumulated a vast array of different amazing recipes that anyone from any race or religion could find something that makes their mouth water. You can scroll through the immense assortment of recipes or you can actually search for specific ingredients, or recipes for any given season. Heidi has taken all of her best dishes and taken pictures of them because apparently she’s a solid photographer as well as an amazing chef. This allows her viewers to look at the finished product before embarking on the journey that is crafting these delectable concoctions. My mom frequents this website and she’s not a big user of the internet.

Some people blog about tasty food, others blog about music and some even blog about the quirky inner workings of the English language, take Mark Forsyth for example. If you’ve ever heard of his blog “The Inky Fool” you’d know that it’s far from foolish. Mark examines the inner workings of the English language and even delves into explanations of words or phrases you’ve used every day, but never actually known the true meaning behind. Take his explanation of the Twelve Days of Christmas for example. If you follow this link http://blog.inkyfool.com/2010/12/five-gold-rings.html you will find something pretty interesting about a song you’ve most likely sang many times in your life around Christmas time.

Blogs can basically be about whatever you want, one of the blogs that I actually view from time to time is: http://www.wwtdd.com/ it stands for “What Would Tyler Durden Do” and if you’ve ever seen Fight Club, you would know that Tyler Durden is the name of the main character. On this blog, the writer brings to light the ridiculous things that celebrities are up and makes fun of them relentlessly. Here’s an excerpt of him talking about Tax Day just so you can get a glimpse of the writer’s ridiculous style, “At some point we’ll probably have to reckon our incalculable debt. Or not. Every time somebody says we can’t leave that immense burden to our kids and grandkids, I think to myself, why the fuck not? We gave them a world where they don’t have to buy the shitty songs on albums and you can instantly access millions of pornographic films right to your fapping hand. Time to pay it forward, you spoiled shits. America, fuck yeah!” The writer, who I believe remains anonymous, is witty, rude and downright hilarious. His input on a lot of serious subject matter is priceless and sometimes very poignant. Personally, I’m not into celebrity news or gossip, but when this dude talks about Lidnsey Lohan, it’s always ridiculously funny.

Those are just some example of blogs, but basically a blog can be about anything you want it to be. From politics to cookbooks, blogs let people talk to the masses about subjects that they find important-even if they really aren’t.