Yeah, it’s kind of boring seeing only text without anything interesting at the end, or at least some feedback or reference to know what inspired him to write that entry. But there is one important point that I considered as confusing.
Using a reference is as easy as copy and paste the link source to your text and it automatically see it from your page. Like for example, Youtube, the greatest host for video sharing, has become a good source of collective information. You can share in every page a video from Youtube to show to your readers. In fact, there are blogs designed to share videos found on Internet that they considered cool for them, and they are like a “promoter” of that video he’s sharing.
[A Youtube Embeded Page, (yay a first reference :P )]
Referential blogs are for those who visit Internet one day and then they saw interesting thing to share or to let know to a certain kind of public, the ones who visit the blog. They share other’s people blog entries, some images, some videos or some links to other pages. Of course you have to give credit to those who made it (if it doesn't get a clear credit) . Also, when blogs and social networking and video hosting weren't there, personal pages existed in hosting servers, and they do the same thing of sharing reference to other pages that the same person is following them, so the promotion is mutual among the bloggers and users.
Also, if you know HTML (yay for HTML), the customization of the blog entry would be more interesting with tables and graphics and images and info you don’t want to show it too quickly (like SPOILERS of some sort).
This is a Spoiler (An unoffensive one...):
I think the problem comes when you put images, I don’t think you could get an image of something just for the blog entry’s good formatting, such as videogame images or movie or related images, and say your entry is entirely yours. It’s difficult for that part to credit, as you cannot refer very well that. But it’s strange when I see others’ blogs they use it regardless of the reference. And therefore, when you search on Google Images, the same photo appears many times. It’s weird. Because images are a common search as web search, files like videos and other things are less common and easier to share (and also you don’t save that video on your side of the blog, and of course images don’t get into the other’s blog, unless it is PhotoBucket, but still…).
That’s why until now I have only written entry blogs without referring to someone else’s images or links (only one that I created and got on the web’s server…), and when I put images of something, I think I should ask first, or better I create mine. Maybe common images won’t hurt a lot… Only I want to get into the legal stuff… (Yeah, me and my silly thoughts…).
But well, beside the good look of the entry, there are: educational blog entries were you can share your knowledge of a certain area or study, or your experiences on something like program software or an Operational System or simply some useful thing they sure other may find difficult to discover. Also there’re blogs when you put entries mentioning the experience of practicing something like a language or experience on something doing on daily life. And also there’re musical blogs, art blogs, political blogs and personal blogs…
Mine has a bit of an experimental and idea sharing, with another bit of personal, referring to the things I like the most and to the things I accustomed to hear every day in School. I know every page hosting that exists have their singular settings, like Blogger is for writing and DeviantArt is for art pages and Flickr is for photo pages and all Social Networking pages are for personal and closed friends sharing, Youtube for video hosting, and forums for community collective information sharing.
“-But be concerned about all pages you have signed in, and take consideration of all of them.”
“-You’ll find that your info might be forgotten and someone may wonder why he doesn’t update regularly…”
“-Get into the idea that’s still in another’s place far away (a.k.a. the page’s server, and of course it’s not in your room).”
[By the way, I’m interested on writing experiences on some Computer stuff I have learned and Programming issues, also the Nerdy Issues, and the Free Writing, so get tuned for more stuff n_n]
