Essay Answers

1. According to the author, there are many differences between books and blogs. These include that books are fast while blogs are slow, books are to stay within the covers while blogs are to stray, and many more. However, the most obvious difference between a blog and book is the following. A blog is online, one can share information with others, discuss your points of view, follow links, post stuff about yourself, you follow links, etc., while a book is just the story. You can't share information with others (save the information the author is sharing with you) and you can't write whatever you write in a book. It has to make some sort of sense, while in a blog it doesn't necessarily have to. Writing in a blog is much more informal than that of a book.

2. The early blogs used to be a sort of filter for the web. They would include links that would lead to a certain webpage to discuss articles, politics, whatever. Recent blogs are about personal information and more importantly about "being found". People try to post things that will gain attention to themselves and have more people every day visiting their own blogs, ultimately becoming a "blogebrity", the term used by the author.

3. You might read a blog for many different reasons. You might want to learn or talk (express your opinions) about a certain topic, whether it be gossip, sports, economy or politics. Whatever topic you're interested in, you can find it. Aside from wanting to read about certain topics, people might look at blogs to find friends or look at their friends' profiles.

4. There is reason to doubt the objectiveness of a blog due to the fact that what people write on blogs are opinions (some might even post fake information). Opinions are subjective and therefore one does not know that what the blog is showing is fair, or written with good arguments. Therefore, one must doubt the objectiveness of a blog.

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