Bogged Down in Blogging

BBC News are launching a weekly Weblog Watch where they will look at the Blogosphere each week and write an analysis of it's various comments and opinions with the view of seeing if the criticism that blogs are pure self indulgence is justified - my opinion - too bloody right it's self justified and I'm proud of the fact.

A blog is defined as a group of links in a date stamped entry - web log.

As with a lot of people I use my blog to vent my frustrations with various news stories of the day or generally as an excuse to publish what is on my mind.

It's all stuff I could probably put in a diary and keep to myself but I'm vain and I like the fact that there is a chance that someone might actually read what I write.

It is pure, personal self indulgence, an excuse to potentially get myself noticed, I crave attention, I'm rediculously opinionated and like to share them with as many people as possible but the beauty of a blog is that it allows people to comment on your opinions.

The blogosphere is one great big giant, internationally water cooler and bloggers are just bored staff standing around it chatting about life, the universe and everything so it's just a lot of people expressing their own opinions on just about anything and everything.

Blogging is a great tool to work alongside news stories to provide people with opinion and analysis.

Look up blogs tied to tags by going to Technorati so you can see opinions on the big stories of the day.

Also check out this Wiki Proxy of the BBC News site that provides links to bloggers talking about news stories as well as links to WikiPedia pages from the body text of a story.

The Guardian Unlimited Weblog Guide is always worth a look, it links to and explains about some of the worlds most important weblogs - unfortunatly this isn't one of them!

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