Oct
25
Blogging about blogging
Filed Under Sunrise on KGMB9
A Scarborough Research study finds 12% of Honolulu adults have blogged or read a blog in the past 30 days, half again more than the national average.
Honolulu and San Diego tied for fifth bloggingest cities, after Austin, Tex. (home of Dell Computer), Portland, Ore., Seattle and San Francisco.
This is my first blog, though I had a column for several years in Pacific Business News that sometimes felt like a blog. My daughter has a blog which is really well-written and makes me very proud of her. I am a fan of Ian Lind’s local blog, which can include exclusive reporting about a local story or remarks about his cats, depending on the day.
I’m struck by the evolution of blog style. Early blogs tended to be full of attitude; now they are full of personality, like reading a first-person novel.
Most Internet writing has struggled for years to find a style. But the style of news writing on Internet websites is easier to explain, since I knew many of the key people hired to write content on AOL, MSNBC and other influential site in the early days. Basically, everyone tried to argue that Internet style should reflect whatever they were used to from their previous jobs in old media. The former broadcasters wanted a brief, breezy style; the former newspaper people wanted to follow print style.
Most Internet styles will eventually be close to current blog style, reflecting (1) the fast, frequent posting that is common to the most widely-read sites, and (2) the infinitely expandable length that is uniquely characteristic of the Web, in contrast to the time and space constraints of radio/TV and print.
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