The
three Blogs I have decided to follow are: Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com ), Wall
Street Journal ( www.online.wsj.com )
and The Economist ( www.economist.com).
Let’s
take a closer look at each one of them and discuss their usability and
usefulness.
Business
Insider:
I have
personally signed up for alerts from this blogging website as I feel it
contains/reports very relevant information about business and finance in
language I can understand. Call me a bit superficial, but Business Insider doesn't deal with hard economic facts and ideas, but rather gives financial and
economic news a social spin…a little bit like gossip! It does however create an
online environment that allows for shared opinions, from which we can all learn
– sort of like a moderator of business/financial opinions. It does also allow
for someone to follow things other than business or finance; you may also find
a Tech Blog, Politics, Strategy, Life and Entertainment. I receive several
daily updates from this source and I like it.
Wall
Street Journal:
This is
a blog I visit about 2-3 times per week. This is a little bit more advanced
than business insider, as it allows for news from all over the world via its “editions”.
I find there is a lot more information readily available here which is
categorized via: Business, Tech, Markets, Market Data, Your Money, Opinion, Life and Culture, Real Estate and Management. This site is a bit more interactive
but it is harder to navigate because of the abundance of information. You need
a long chunk of time to sort through blogs and announcements unless you know
exactly what you are looking for.
The Economist:
I
visited this blog about 1 or twice per week, and I have to say out of all of
them, I was least interested in this one. Although some of the information
contained was very insightful, most blogs that were business and Finance
related did not interest me. It is possible for that to be the case because I
don’t normally keep up with such blogs and I don’t have as much knowledge about
current businesses and financial markets as I want. Therefore, for most of the
articles I have had to do some background information legwork to understand the
full context of the content. This blog also contains different categories, similar to the ones described above and you can choose the topic of your read accordingly.
Advantages/Disadvantages
of blogging
Some of
the advantages I can think of from both a customer and a business perspective
and are the following:
·
Quick
Real time information – read about it as it happens
·
Space
– not held back by “number of pages.”
·
Easy
to read – zoom-in available as it is read via electronic device.
·
Large
market reach – younger generations especially
·
Allows
for interaction of readers – able to quickly respond to feedback.
·
Categories
easily identifiable
·
Ability
to search for a story without having to look through all categories.
Disadvantages
of blogging are:
·
Not
being able to reach the older generation
·
Restricted
to reading off an electronic device.
·
Too
much information, too quickly, hard to follow.
·
Relies
on electricity, the digital world can come to a full shut down when one does
not have electricity.
The
future of blogging
To be
quite honest, I haven’t really gotten used to blogging to begin with. When I
first learned about blogging, I thought of it as a tool for self-made
celebrities – a little like you-tube. It does seem that most have taken a
liking to blogging and actually enjoy reading such news over blogs rather than
a good old newspaper; but I can only speak from my own perspective and maybe
even generalize a bit when it comes to my own age-group. I truly think that we
will experience different platforms for sharing information and because of the
abundance of information, I see there will be a large disconnect between
people. If you think back, most would rely on the radio or the newspaper that
would get dropped to their house every morning. Because this was the only few
sources of information, most people would end up discussing similar topics. In
this day and age, availability of information is so abundant that it is hard to
relate to someone else unless you talk about the weather! J…Yes, this topic will always be widely discussed. In
the next 5-10 years I expect blogging to continue to be widely used, but I do
think that we are continuously waiting for “the next best thing”, which may change
the way we blog.
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