Vanity vs Information Blogs

The first blog I found was here that contained information on home improvement and stories of home improvement from several home owners. This site was interesting because it had featured stories from home owners that discussed what they’ve done to their houses to make them more likeable. The first blog article I found was about someone loving “Queens Reborn” mansion craze. Although I am not a home owner myself I could read these blogs to learn a lot about what people do once they own a home. The topic of home improvement is of personal interest to the blog’s creators therefore we call these information blogs.

The second blog, a vanity blog, was found here. This blog is created by Karen Coyle and talks about her life in the digital age. She talks about how she organizes her life in the digital age and what she’d like to see change about the digital age. This blog is an insight into the life of Karen Coyle, her life, and her opinions. Just by reading this blog you get to learn things about Karen and how she things. For example, on Friday, August 24, 2007 she lets us know how she discovered the key difference between information architects and librarians. I find blogs like this interesting as you get to see the world through someone else’s eyes.

The difference between these two blogs is that one blog, the information blog, relays information on a specific topic like home improvement. The vanity blog is basically a blog that gives us information about the author, the author’s opinions and their daily life.

Do I feel that blogging supports this type of journalism? I don’t see how this type of blogging would make it into journalism unless the author was an important movie actor or someone in the “in” at the WhiteHouse or something of the like. Information blogs are too opinion orientated and diverse to be anything factual for journalism in my opinion. Vanity blogs on the other hand could be useful in journalism if the author had something of interest to talk about, especially something that could not be obtained by the media.

I believe this research somewhat supported my original thesis that blogging has an impact on journalism.