Entry #1 Blogs

 

    Blogs are very important in the world we live in. This is the age of information and blogs are one of the best ways to spread this information. They allow the creator to be creative and expressive while writing about the things that interest them. Personally, I have never been a huge consumer of the platform, but I can still appreciate their uses. While researching for this post I have come across a multitude of different types of blogs. Here are two that I recommend and one that I don’t.

    The first blog that I enjoyed was Business Insider. (Insider (businessinsider.com) I liked the fact that it had a clear purpose of informing about the world of business in a very easy to understand manner. The blog is categorized and broken down into a multitude of different topics such as Finance, Markets, Retail and more. This allows the reader to find exactly what they are looking for and filter out what they aren’t. The only downside of the blog is their occasional use of clickbait style headlines that undermine the integrity of some of their posts.

The second blog that I liked was Tech Crunch. ( TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News) It is prominently a tech blog that excels in providing coverage on all things tech. This blog also breaks its posts into different smaller categories such as startups, AI, Crypto and more. This blog allows tech enthusiasts and investors to stay up to date on the ever-changing tech landscape. One thing that I don’t like is that the blog locks a multitude of features behind a paywall. They have a TechCrunch+ Service that is a monthly subscription service for $15 per month, which personally I find way too high.

    Finally, the blog that I didn’t like was The Huffington Post. (HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost) The blog is littered with ads and popups that very quickly become annoying. While the other blogs did have ads they were not nearly as invasive as the ones on HuffPost. Additionally, the websites categories are too broad to navigate such as News, Shopping, and Video. These make it challenging to narrow the vast amounts of posts they have into anything manageable. Ultimately the Huffington Post is trying to appeal to too large an audience. Instead of picking a topic and really nailing it the Huffington Post is trying to be a jack of all trades and in this case it’s not better than a master of one.

 

 

  

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