Blog Post #5 - Blogging Future

Blogs are incredibly diverse. While some use blogs as an outlet for their creative ideas, others use blogs as an expansion of journalism and information. If I were to have my own blog, I would use it as an extension of journalism. Specifically, I would use a blog as a tool of technology journalism.

There are many technology journalism websites on the internet, and I feel that they all have their own purposes. The purpose of my blog, if I were to create one, would be to tell the stories about the people behind the brands, and less about the brands as the subject. For example, when discussing a video game I would focus less on the game and more on the people that created the game, and why the product is important to them.

This idea isn't necessarily new, because there have been websites that have done this. However, this is something that is truly interesting to me. A lot of websites, for example MacRumors, take the easy way out and focus on the brands. Occasionally they will focus on a story about a specific person, but the stories about products take precedence. While it is important to shine light on the brand or product, it is far more interesting to tell the audience how we got to this point.

There is one blog/news site that tries to focus its approach on the people rather than the products. This website is called Polygon. While Polygon creates reviews, spotlights on products, etc. the website has a team of professional journalists ready to tell the story of the people. They don't rush on a story just because they want to be the first to run with it. They write stories because they want to, and they find them interesting.

If I can't create my own blog using this philosophy, I wouldn't mind writing for a website like Polygon sometime in the future.