My Blog & the Blogosphere

When you look at my blog you’ll see a variety of topics most of them dealing with college life or some aspect of it. And as I think about ideas of what I want to write, it usually ends up being a current topic or current situation that I am going through. Most of these topics, I think are interesting and can appeal to a lot of readers. Some of the subjects are transferring, spring break; trips back home, wanting school to end, current movies, vacations, etc. My posts relate to people who read them because the people who do read my posts are usually college students, people who are in the same situation as me. They are either going through the same situation, have been through it, or might experience it sometime in the near future. And my blogs provide direction and guidance and feeling to these particular situations.
Now when you look at my best post, it would probably have to be the transfer post… about transferring to a different school. There is so much passion and detail and description in the explanation that I feel it is my best post. Not only does it give the reason for wanting to leave, but it also backs it up with full proof and evidence, letting the readers know what is going through my head. The organization and the persuasion are the best parts about it because without persuasion all it would say is I want to transfer because I don’t like it here. That is not going to persuade anyone who reads it that they or I should transfer, not even my 10 year old sister. There is emotion and passion in the writing that rubs off on the reader, helping to persuade their decision. Ultimately, I think that it is a great post with lots of details why and the emotion and passion to persuade anyone to transfer were they in my position.
The last and finally peace of the puzzle is the blogosphere. The blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. It is the perception that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network. I think that it is almost like a virtual community that helps people around the community together by reading other people’s thoughts and words. It is the start of a new era, a connection between the world without pen or paper and without visual contact. It is nice because you can track different subjects through hypertext links that travel from blog to blog, interconnected by their subject matter. It just makes everything easier almost, making it simple and easy to track different subjects rolling through the blogs and track and follow those who are close to you or those that interest you. Ultimately, it is a great invention that will surely stick around and be added on from here on out.