THESIS

Blogs

HISTORY:

Blogs were first created around 1990's and gained popularity when the millennial hit. Blogger.com was the first to start and then was bought out by Google in 2003. From then on there were blogs everywhere. Blogs are a way for people to express their thoughts and opinions and display it online with no cost or filters.




Thesis: A rise in blogging popularity has impacted the way society views family life, journalism, and advertising and how it has changed the world we live in.

Company Blogs: Kevin

Companies create blogs to:

• Share stories from people who use their products
• Highlight the type of people they are trying to attract to their products
• Demonstrate the type of lifestyle they are trying to cultivate
• Show that their products help make people “cooler"
• Demonstrate their corporate culture to attract buyers

http://neverstopexploring.com/ (The North Face official blog)

Differences between journalism and blogging: Emily

Blogs aren't concrete facts: MO

• written by concerned parents, not based on scientific fact
• Facebook pages made by anti-vaccination parents are mistaken for credible sources
• believing word-of-mouth over actual facts

http://www.healingourchildren.org/

http://www.voicesforvaccines.org/blog/

http://www.voicesforvaccines.org/leaving-the-anti-vaccine-movement/

Business and Advertising: Devin

Why advertise on blogs?

http://www.easygreenmom.com

How blogging makes money :Taylor and Kaitlyn.

• Fashion Blogs
• benefits
• Fitness blogs
• benefits

http://www.circleofmoms.com/top25/health-fitness
http://atlantic-pacific.blogspot.com/



Kaitlyn:

• $5,000 in a week to blog about an iPhone app
• Woman earns twice as much as her husbands $35,000 annual salary by hosting serveral one hour "twitter parties" each week
• All-expense paid vacations
• Is it possible to make a living as a blogger?