Journalism Next: Chapter 2

This chapter is entitled Advance Blogging. The chapter talks about the difference between a good blog, like TrueHoop (ESPN’s basketball blog) v.s. a bad blog like The Jackbox blog (a MySpace site supposedly run by that strange ping-pong-ball-headed mascot that has about the same amount of intellect as a Big Mac has nutritional value.)

One thing I found interesting in this chapter was the idea of creating an audience for you blog.

“All writing is more fun when you know who your writing to,” Briggs said.

This is so true because if you know your audience, you’re halfway there.

The biggest thing that can make or break a blog is organization. How you organize your ideas, pictures and links is very important to the success of a blog. No one wants to read a blog that’s all over the place.