HW# 13
Responding to Blogs will change your business from Blog! How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture
“How big are blogs? (223)" People used to think that blogs were going to change the world, that your business would only succeed if you had a successful blog. But recently that view has changed, see “There’s a little problem, though. Many of you don’t visit blogs- or haven’t since blogs became a sensation in last year’s Presidential race. (222)” Well really 2004s presidential race, but that’s not the point. The point is if most of us are not taking the time to even look at blogs, “27% of Internet users in America now bother to read them,” then how will they change our businesses? They won’t, will they?? See these numbers suggest that the world of blogging is changing, again.
If we look at some more numbers we can see that business blogs aren’t all that important as we thought they would become, “There are some 9 million blogs out there, with 40,000 new ones popping up each day. Some discuss poetry, others constitutional laws. And, yes, many are just plain silly. ‘Mommy tells me it may rain today. Oh Yucky Dee Doo,’ reads one April posting. Let’s assume that 99.9% are equally off point. So what? That leaves some 40 new ones everyday that could be talking about your business, engaging your employees, or leaking those merger discussions you thought were hush-hush.” But if we look at this quote that they said before they told us this, “We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs.” “But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since Internet itself. And they’re going to shake up just about every business- including yours. (223)” Then how many of those business blogs are the ones being looked at?? My guess is as good as yours, but for some reason I believe that most of them are not, I know that when my friends and I go online we aren’t looking at business blogs we are looking at people we knows blogs. So then how can business blogs be so impacting? I personally only ever looked at one and it was for this class.
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I like the way you're thinking this through and sorting through possibly conflicting statements. I find it a little hard to follow as written, though. Introduce quotes with a signnal phrase and explain the point of them after. For example:
...aren't as important as we thought they'd become. Green and Baker point out to BusinessWeek readers that:
There are some 9 million blogs out there..." (222)
They're telling us that there are a lot of blogs, but they're also telling us that most business people hate them.
Also, for long quotes, indent them with the the blockquote button to make it easy to tell where they begin and end/
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