How Could A Blog Help You
- Find a good place to eat in Tempe (could be anywhere, depending on where you live)
- Learn about how to invest in the stock market
- http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/16/how-much-does-the-stock-market-actually-return/
- This is actually a great website for a lot of financial advice--not just the stock market.
- Learn more about social media tools
- Learn more about new video games
- Find / Read movie reviews
- Find out where your favorite band/musician (say, Elton John and Billy Joel) was playing
All of those were found through a simple Google Search with "Blogs" as the search parameter (you just click "blogs" on the side after you input your search).
Blogs to Check Out (to see some variety)
- Boy Genius Report:
- Reviews technology ranging from social media to mobile phones to gaming (and some random stuff like celebrities).
- Gadling:
- An interesting travel blog that discusses topics ranging from airlines to use to budgeting tips to locations to visit. It is a pretty comprehensive site in terms of travel.
- Failblog:
- As far as I can tell, this website just finds people 'failing' at different things (or just making fools of themselves) and then people vote on them.
- Rotten Tomatoes:
- A useful site with movie reviews, user ratings, trailers, etc. I didn't realize that it merged with Flixster some time ago. I guess imdb.com is the only other big competitor these days.
- Grantland:
- It seems like this website occasionally covers other things but generally focuses on sports news, highlights, etc.
- Gawker:
- I'll be perfectly honest, I think that gawker is an enormous waste of time and, for that reason, I am not even going to link to it. Basically, it is a website completely devoted to gossip, sleazy news, etc.
And a Few FAQs:
- What is the difference between a blog and a micro-blog?
- With some variation, a blog is an online journal produced by a single individual on a specific theme--like "The Hobbit", Crafts, Social Commentary or sometimes as broad as someone's life (like the blog you are reading!). The posts are generally somewhere between 300-500 words, in my experience and often include pictures and sometimes even video clips. The blogs listed above could be considered "blogs" and not "micro-blogs".
- A micro-blog, on the other hand, is a condensed version of a blog--as the name would suggest--with much shorter posts (sometimes no more than a link or a one-liner). Wikipedia describes it as more of a "broadcast medium" for things like status updates and sales promotions (in the case of businesses). Twitter is a good example of a micro-blog.
- Is Wordpress a blog or a micro-blog?
- Wordpress is both a platform for blogging and a hosting service (like Blogger) that allows you to create your own blog. Although I have seen a few mentions of micro-blog plug-ins for Wordpress, it is primarily a normal blog.
- What is an "Enterprise Micro-blog"?
- It is a service offered to organizations that allows them to share information quickly through RSS Feeds, threaded replies, and photo and file sharing. This kind of service helps to enhance collaboration throughout the organization. One of the most highly respected Enterprise micro-blogging services out there is Yammer.
I'd love to hear what you have to say about blogs. What do you use them for? Have you found any really good ones that help you to find what you're looking for?
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