Module 5

Vanity Blog: http://willysr.blogspot.com
For the vanity blog I selected My Personal Blog which is written by Willy Sudiarto Raharjo who lives in Jogja, Indonesia. He updates his blog just about every day with his various activities and hobbies. I found it to be very much like an online journal with a breakdown of the major events of each day. I actually found it somewhat unsettling that someone would post what they do every single day but it also gave insight into the life of someone who lived in a different country.

Information Blog: http://www.themovieblog.com
For the Information blog I selected The Movie Blog which has three contributors who are John Campea, Rodney Brazeau, and Dan Crook. They are based in Hamilton, Ontario Canada and have been running the blog since 2003. I found this blog to be much more professional and more aesthetically pleasing which I’m sure is the result of a larger reader base and the ad revenue from it. I read a few of their movie reviews and their commentary on recent movie news and found it to be quite entertaining. It is evident that these are just a couple of guys informing people about movies and sharing their opinions.

After thoroughly reading through both blogs I have discovered they are both two very different forms of blogging. The Movie Blog I felt was much more professional and was more appealing to the eye whereas My Personal Blog was just a simple blog format with a boring yellow background. The vanity blog was also less interesting to read because it contained information that was only about one specific person’s life. The information blog on the other hand was much more entertaining because it contains information that actually appeals to me.

What makes a good information blog is one that contains excellent information about the specific topic it discusses. It should also be somewhat objective while also still containing the bloggers personality and opinion; it is still a blog after all. On the other hand a vanity blog should be almost entirely opinion and be structured more like an online journal in which people share their lives with others.

On a scale of 1-5 I found this research to be about a 4. This research somewhat supports my thesis because it shows the informative power that blogs can have. People can get all of the movie news and reviews they could possible want from The Movie Blog and receive the information in a very entertaining format.

After completing this module I do not wish to change my thesis and I still believe and support that blogging has had an influence on print journalism. Although it is still uncertain whether it has been for better or worse, blogging has changed print journalism and the way news will be delivered to people.