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| webblogs are increasingly popular day by day..perhaps we rely too much? |
Feeling curious and wanted to know the latest gadget or even would want to find out when is I-phone 5 coming out?.. there goes webblog... or even wanted to plan a special dinner for your loved ones? webblog reviews will take care of you in making sure you wont have a disaster during your dinner because, there are tons of tons of review on food that waiting for you to explore. This can help people to make a decision and find out on the particular restaurant before making final conclusion..
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| one of the most popular company that pays blogger |
Furthermore, with the wide blogs available throughout the web world... it generally gives the society to understand and know more information rather than relying on conventional sources like word of mouth, or even our great olden days where newspaper is our primary source when comes to information. Webblog can be one of the quickest source that provides all the latest and hot news for society. Take it for instance, gadget freaks can able to catch the latest spy shots of (let say I-phone 5) even before releasing to the market.. or even read and find out reviews on the new Iphone like the usability, functions, value for money or even tips on using the phone before actually deciding whether would want to purchase the phone... another popular webblog portal would be our famous Paultan.org that purely based on car reviews and latest news that became popular in years of opereating the blog and founder of Paultan.org is earning good income for just writing reviews and updating his blog with latest news on cars and bikes.
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| Blog for interest or money? |
In fact we can see alot of bloggers started to blog because there are companies that pays blogger whenever they contribute a post. Famous bloggers like Sixth.seal, kennysia.com, smashin.popstar, and so on would have been earning alot due to its high traffic visit to their blogs and they would easily get paid for the price of even a fresh graduate that work 10hours a day. Easy job and money come... Company like Nuffnang, Adverlets, Google ad sense started to pay bloggers by counting cost per click each and this simply works by advertising some latest ads in their webpage and there goes the money starts to accumulate by the blogger. The more frequent unpdate, the more traffic a blogger will get..so...
However, when comes to weblogs, some would say it rather a question mark especially when comes to content credibility because there are too many bloggers out there that writes the same content. For example,.the new Audi A6, some would say its good, some would say its not good...so which one should I trust? and given the price of the car, of course I would not want to simply waste my hard earn money when I choose the wrong choice just because of believing people's review.But look at the bright side, with webblogs, it generally helps us to manage things easier especially with all the smartphones and portable laptops....Imagine you are on the way to Penang and you are unsure where is the famous asam laksa...so just pop out your smartphone and start searching and there goes the food review and information that helps you get there easier.
In the nutshell, with the popularity of web blogs and information given, I see there is no reason that books published by writers would replace the web blogs because no matter how books are the only one that gives more credibility when comes to content sources. Would you trust an unknown web-blogger or book when comes to doing your research? You choose..
Nice post Abang loong, easy to understand =)
ReplyDeleteYup, there is a problem for blog, it's hard to defined which can be trusted. Everyone can have their own opinion, they have different point of view toward certain things as well.
Unlike the tourism website, they are promoting the place, no matter it's good or bad, still they will write something about good for the place. This is very subjective, If I go for travel alone, I will look for people blog as well as certain website, to make a comparison among 2 article and also differentiate with a few bloggers, because what the blogger write might affected by their emotional.
Hi Weng Loong!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the point that there is a possibility that web writers have the potential to take over book writers. Books, how many people are able to access them? Compared to web books, books are definitely in a negative position. However, I am thinking of why not converting physical books into e-books as well? So that individuals from different places can have the chance to read the books, which in turn, increase the readership of the book. This is a phenomenal I see is trending on the Internet. Besides, there are also lots of different applications for mobile devices that allow individuals to access e-books easily, which I think is useful for individuals in terms of their convenience and portability. It is definitely a hassle to carry around thick books during your vacations.
Not only books, other materials such as videos and music can also be obtained through the niche market - long tail. I personally think that this culture is really useful for all individuals who wish to retrieve really old information which they still love and hope to collect. This is definitely made possible by the Internet.
I agree with the fact Su Wern has pointed out which why not convert physical objects into the virtual aspect then posting it online. One it could really bring a stop towards the cutting down of trees for paper, when spoke of books. Lots of trees could be saved. Other than that in test of credibility, it really should depend who the bloggers are, if they are done by Professor from universities, I wouldn't mind using this particular webblogs as a point of reference given the webblog is properly referenced as well and it all depends on the contents of the blog.
ReplyDeleteHey Weng Loong
ReplyDeleteThere are many books that has already been converted into e books in fact the books size are so small you can fill you entire pendive with e books and will be still left with space. However the main problem reading e books is that reading from the monitor screen or smartphone or tablet can be annoying to the eyes. As far as credibility goes books will be more credible then weblogs, but unless as Kok Han said if that weblog is properly referenced than is a different scenario all together.
"I see there is no reason that books published by writers would replace the web blogs because no matter how books are the only one that gives more credibility when comes to content sources. Would you trust an unknown web-blogger or book when comes to doing your research? " is spot on between the war of the attention economy.. It simply isn't a war anyway... because they are on completely different terms!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that books will have to stay because in the end of the day, it is the boring stuff that sounds credible and makes the most sense. It only makes sense that we pay the costs for the work and effort put into the publications of knowledge and wisdom. As for web-blogs, there's good for the interesting, fun stuff. Credibility (and sometimes even ethics) is breached and one ponders on the line of sense and substance. I guess in the end of the day, we take in what is right, and ignore the rest.