Coincidentally, I regularly follow many peoples' vanity blogs. For this module, I chose my favorite vanity blog - Travis McCoy's. Travis McCoy is the lead personality of Gym Class Heroes, one of my favorite groups. His blog covers many different aspects of his life, ranging from posts about release events for their new album, posts about his significant other (Katy Perry), posts about his now successful cousin (Tyga), & posts concerning his recently rehabilitated state after recovering from his addiction to pharmaceuticals. I've been following his blog for a long time, & I find each & every post interesting in some way or another. He lives quite an interesting life, if I do say so myself.
My choice for an informational blog is also a blog I used to frequent. For years, I've been a T-Mobile customer living off of sidekicks, & this blog was a lot of help. The sidekick blog always kept me updated with the newest release of the phone, or new tips & tricks for manipulating the phone I already had. This blog also left me a lot of networking space to exchange information with other Sidekick users. All in all, I think informational blogs are pretty helpful for whatever topic they concern.
I definitely think blogging supports this type of journalism. I think people would be a bit more inclined to read someone's blog daily as opposed to picking up an autobiography. There's a certain connection achieved when you can read up on someone's life that you admire on a daily basis. That doesn't occur with print media - it'd be too much of a project to embark on on a daily basis. Both kinds of blogs, vanity & informational appeal to a certain specific audience. A good vanity blog is very subjective though. It's all about the reader & their interpretation. If the reader is reading a vanity blog written by someone they find interesting, most likely, they'll find it to be a "good vanity blog." I think a good informational blog is a bit more general. A good informational blog just tends to be relative to the topic. As long as the blog can deliver accurate information on the given subject, it's "good" enough.
I believe this module somewhat supports my thesis. I believe blogging is good for very specific things - this being one of them. Authors of vanity blogs get a lot of exposure & publicity while informational blogs provide often very useful information. With this evidence, I think blogging definitely affects journalism. Sometimes, blogging is a very important aspect of journalism.
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