From what I know that is weblog is a place for people to express their feeling,suggestion,comments and ideas towards different kind of topic and yet is a place that can send the message to a broad of audiences in the world. And yet, some of the people had earn some money or allowance by posting some post in their weblog. Actually not everyone can earn the money, from what I know from others, for example Nuffnang is a advertising community and this is one of the way the blogger earn money. How they can be earn? It is like the blogger post some advertisement by Nuffnang in their blogs and then let the readers to click on it, once they click on the advertisement there will some bonus to them, in other way is if your weblog is very famous and a lot of readers visit it, Nuffnang will give you allowance because they think that their advertisement had reach a broad of audiences.
Anyway, from the article of Weblogs and the Mass Amateurization of Publishing by Shirky, C. I agree with some of the point. Firstly, let's compare the old media, like newspaper and new media, like weblog nowadays. Old media just can send the message by one by one as not everyone can read the newspaper at the same times, in other hand new media like weblog can reach a big amount of audiences at the same times and also can let readers at the same time. Newspaper is hard to let people share their thoughts and ideas with others at the same times and not like weblog canget a lot of ideas and comment by different people at the same and yet weblog can reach the audiences int he world but newspaper only can reach the audiences in some certain specify area. Anyway, maybe it can show one side of the advantages of new media but I still prefer old media just like newspaper as the details of every news will be more details and exact than the new media like weblog. As newspaper write everything is follow the truth information to write but information from the weblog had been changed and edited by several of people as everyone will give different kind of information for a certain topic, it had totally destroy the meaning of the news and also the information and yet it will always give the wrong information to the readers while reading it. This is the reason I like to read newspaper more than weblog. Yeah right! Readers will think that weblog is free of charge as not like we have to buy the newspaper and read it, due to the generation nowadays everyone find everything by surfing internet so that everyone think that reading a weblog is much more convenient than reading a newspaper. Weblog is a freedom to everyone to dropped by their opinion and idea, so it is a place for people share their thoughts. Thus, Newspaper have to follow the law to write an article but weblog is like a place for people write whatever they want to write.
At last, we can't really compare the old media and new media as there were always got their own advantages and disadvantages. Anyway, it all depends on peoples think of the old media and new media as everyone had their own perception. Weblog is not a good or a bad thing as everyone had a different perception towards it. Just like me, yes! Weblog is much more convenient than the readings a book or newspaper but the information must very careful as the information might be wrong sometimes. Meanwhile, old media would never die and yet the new media will keep improving.
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