What is a blog?

A. The difference between a blog and a book is that a blog is located in the internet while a book is made up of pages and can be carried anywhere. A blog can be about any topic you want and can be written in any way you think of, while a book is more limited to a certain format and its topic is very important since depending on this, it will be sold. Blogs are free and anyone, anywhere can post and share his/her opinions, thoughts or feelings. Also, links, music, photos, videos, etc. can be added to them in order to enrich their content. In contrast, books have to be paid for and the comments the readers have about them, can't be shared with others (directly in the book). Books include the writers ideas and thoughts only because there is no way for a reader to write his comments in a book for everyone to see.

B. Blogs have changed recently because before they used to be made up of more links than posts, and nowadays, people share their experiences and ideas more. Discussions about the topics of interest are more oftenly done and people feel more comfortable to recurr on this type of writing.

C. I might read a blog because it could provide me with information that I didn't know of before and it could give me the possibility of asking questions directly to the person that wrote it. I think it is a more personal way of learning about others, than simply reading an entry that has no option of discussion. Also, by reading a blog I can learn about others' experiences and feelings and at the same time, be able to share with them my own perspective.

D. There is reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog because it is written from the perspective of one person that can be a professional at what he/she is writing or not and there is no way of knowing if the person is being biased in any way. However, that is the point of a blog; to learn about another's perspective and learn as much as you can from it.

E. Three blogs that mention our summer reading are:
1984: http://hammouz.blogspot.com/2008/02/bloggers-book-club-discussion-1984.html

Fahrenheit 451: http://csothbeg144.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/if-only-bradbury-had-a-wordpress/

Dante's Inferno: http://examplepapers.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/dantes-inferno/