What is a blog? Questions

A. What is the difference between a blog and a book?
B. How have blogs changes recently?
C. Why might you read a blog?
D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?

A. The differences between a book and a blog are many. The blog is exclusively an online source while a book can be printed or in some cases published online. The main reason for the blog to be used only on the web is the usage of hyperlinks. With this tool, bloggers spread ideas and opinions throughtut the web or show people reading their own blogs places to find new information on the subject of the blog. With this comes the great difference in the atmosphere of a book and a blog. In a book, you have to give the reader much more information in the text as you want them to understand and follow the whole narrative. In contrast, a blog is a space for people to talk with others who are interested in similar subjects, this often mean that unique terms or specific events are never explained because they are considered "common knowledge". All of this makes blog and books very different.

B. Blogs have their beginnings in the 1980's, but at that time they were used as a tool for web users to record what they did in their works. later it developed into "Bloods" where people with internet access would post interesting sites they found and sometimes do small comments on them. In 1999 free tools for bloggin were published in the internet and in no time blogs were all across the internet. They soon became tools to talk about different ideas and subject like politics, sports, news, and even movies. Presently blogs often offer an "alternate" media, where news are discussed and published by different people with unique views, different from the "mass" media.

C. Reading a blog can provide me with fresh and unique views of different subjects. It also allows me to discuss subjects with people with similar interests, giving me even more insight on my interests.

D. A blog almost by definition is opinion-based. The author writes whatever he wants without worries of being harrassed or hurt. If the reader doen't like the opinion, well he can simply stop reading. The author only cares to share his opinions with people interested in what he says. In addition, the author often arguments his opinions with links to other blogs and certain facts, which he can easily choose form the millions of sources in the internet.

E. My blog would have to be titled depending on the subject im focusing on. Since I can have various blogs, I can easily do subject-based blogs with custom titles.