Summary: In this article the author begins by introducing a survey called “The Blogging Iceberg” which is conducted by the Perseus Development Company (2003), which found that two thirds of public weblogs created via centralized hosting services have not been updated in two months and are considered “abandoned”.  The author continues by stating that 1.09 million of these have been deemed “one-day wonders”.

In the case of the blogosphere, the sense of community is coaxed into existence within the minds of its members in a style that stems from the instant publishing medium itself to create a discursive, transnational, online imagined community. (Graham Lampa)

The form of journalism found in the blogosphere has the potential to pull power away from the dominate one-way communication of formal and  professional print and broadcast journalism to a decentralized realm of individual publishers who not only consume texts that are circulated, reproduced, and consumed by others.

Commentary:  In a number of widely-publicized instances, such as the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the comments made by Senator Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday celebration, bloggers have covered stories in ways that the mainstream media could not or would not.( (Rainie, Fox, & Madden, 2002)

Blogs were able to provide first-hand, unedited accounts of ordinary people in New York and Washington that may have been lost amid all the broadcasting and chaos of the mainstream media. Usually you wouldn’t think that blogs would be a source of information used by many people but it seems to be such an effective way to collect information quickly. Expanding on this quote a little more I have to say I would have never thought of a blog being the place to go when searching for information. It totally makes sense that during very tragic events in society everything seems to be so crazy that searching for information can become very difficult but blogging is such a great and effective way to retain the information without going through non-sense broadcasting stories.

Making Connections: In the beginning of this article the author mentions how so many blogs are abandoned and “one-day wonders”, I was not surprised by that at all because a lot of people start things and just give up on it so fast because they don’t incur as many followers or likes they believe they should get. I can connect to this in the sense that I have begun to do an assortment of different things and just gave up and lost interest. This article shows both sides of this idea; many people do continue to use their blog and make amazing content and share current happenings in the world as well not all that blog do that. To conclude my thought I learned many useful things about blogging and this article pushed me to love blogging a little more.