Blogs are a fantastic tool, that have really helped open up ownership, in a communal sense, of the internet to regular citizens.
Having circumvented the need for technical knowledge, blogging has enabled literally anyone to become a contributor to the body of knowledge on the internet. This open and free nature has greatly increased the number of people that are contributing to the net on all sorts of topics, from travel to tuberculosis, from aardvarks to apples.
Personally, I have used blogging very effectively while travelling and living overseas. It is a great way to keep in contact with friends back home, and a great way to share photos of stories from halfway around the world.
More recently, with the terror attacks in Mumbai, blogging was used by citizens to report on the state of the terror attacks, the location of terrorists, as well as being used to get images out the rest of the world in a city that was locked down by terrorists and police. This was a very effective use of blogging that enabled the outside world to understand the extent of what people in Mumbai were going through, and to offer words of support.
In this day and age, it seems that almost all media outlets have vested, and often non-disclosed, financial interests that skew the reporting in favour of advertisers, or the owners own corporate interests or political ideologies. Blogging is a very powerful weapon against this dis-information as it enables individuals or organisations to express their beliefs, thoughts, and opinions in a public forum without being edited by others with questionable motives.
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