Simply D.L.

Blogs: The New Frontier of Literature?

So here I am, blogging.

The paradoxical beauty of the Internet is this: on the good side, there are a lot of websites to explore, and on the bad side, there are a lot of websites to explore. And this could also be said of blogs: there are some good ones out there and of course, there are bound to be some not so good ones to read.

It is great for everybody who has access to the Internet to open up a blogging account and start pounding their keyboards, but is it something worth posting on the Internet for web surfers and blog addicts to stumble upon?

And then we get into this argument of what is good literature. What is a good book to one person can be an awful terrible book to another. A year ago, I read Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War and I enjoyed it. So out of curiosity, I visited amazon.com to see some reviews on this book. And those low-rating (especially the one star) reviews can be quite vicious.

So blogs are similar. There will be some blogs that people will dislike but others will like. Although people tend to look down on blogging, there are benefits such as a wide variety of interests and of course, reading is free (and to the blogger’s relief, publishing is free as well).

It is a matter of taking the time to find the good blogs to read and good posts to write.

D.L.