the woes of a 'blog boomer'

Before I begin biting into this topic I would like to clear up some definitional confusion that may have arisen while reading the article. One main issue brought up with the authors’ argument is the lack of specification when discussing what form of blogging is he referring to within his statistics.

The traditional definition of a blog is a personal journal consisting of either private, or public commentary on a particular subject, or occurrence in time.
One may say that blogging through time has become a form of social media through its allowance for a person or a community to communicate through the web in an instantaneous timeframe.

With this definition I will be explaining to you exactly how these statistics breaks down from a college student’s perspective.

To begin I would like to ask, how many of us own blogs? I own 4. You could own 7, 7, or 9001(or any equivalent OVER 9000). With this being said, who is to say that a comparison between traditional presses vs. blogs is a fair claim to make? The accessibility of a blog makes it easy for EVERYONE to jump online and post about the latest trend, or a particular topic. While in an established organization of ethical press writers must go through a painstaking editorial process to have any piece published for the public to digest. 

The situation is we are a society that demands instantaneous responses, and opinions. We have seen this through the evolution of News Media with having “breaking news” inserted into their regular schedule and sometimes even programs not operated by the news company. If we bring ourselves into a metacommunicative in order to establish a registry of our collective outlook on the demands we make through media, we can see that we are expecting coverage 10 minutes before the news happens.

Therein lies the issue with traditional media.  It is too slow, will it ever become irrelevant to us as a means of sourcing data, hell no. I believe this only because of the extent of professionalism it takes to publish a piece and have it broadcasted all over. If you look at the example made in the article where a blogger brought up their concern about the H1N1 virus you can see the lack of professionalism in his/her post; this brings me to believe that blogs will not in any way phase out traditional forms of news media. My belief is that sites such as Wikipedia will be more welcome in the academic community for referencing and sourcing so long as it remains community based in its editing process.