Visual Blogs
As far as visual orientation goes, the concept of having blogs with more pictures than words is spreading like wildfire across the internet. People are very visually oriented. They are more likely to gleam their information from pictures and snippets of text rather than reading large paragraphs. Visual blogs play on this idea. News reporters are posting more and more pictures to go along with text, forming image sequences that tell a story all on their own. Artists are posting their works in progress to get progressive feedback from their fans. The average blogger posts pictures of his/herself to try and relate to their readers. However, the problem with visual blogs is that they can only be taken at face value. A picture is worth a thousand words. What a snapshot means to one person can be completely invalid to another.
Literary Blogs
Blogs are not just diaries to vent your insignificant problems onto the worldwide web. They are also not just programs like myspace and facebook that are merely a glorified instant messenger service. The term ‘blog’ encompasses a large assortment of topics such as warblogs, educational blogs, news blogs, medical blogs, and so much more. These blogs are not insipid and shallow; they are beyond useful and are a great resource for the average internet user. Although a good deal of the time slathered with personal opinion, blogs are extremely influential. They are literature, not trash. People have the common misconception that they are a waste of space when the are, in fact, a huge part of the way we communicate since we are all, for the most part, heavily technologically involved. However, the thing about most blogs is that they are a source of information from an illegitimate source. They are not employed by an agency, paper, magazine, or company to write on certain subjects. They are an individual work. This causes some controversy as to the validity of the blogosphere.
