- Rated blogs: "Content here has been rated 5-stars! If you want a credible analysis of the situation in Israel, come here!"
- Free-for-all: "All views here are my own... take them seriously at your own peril. Sometimes, I will talk about my showering experience this morning."
Over time, rated blogs could become self-sustainable ventures and blogging may even become a profession that would be paid for by advertising. For this to happen, Google Ad Sense would need to find the next big thing after text ads, for text ads really dont seem to work much!
The third way, is for blogs to be used as a medium of conversation, rather than communication. The comments feature in blogs seem to have this potential, but I somehow find it to be rather cumbersome. A live chat with your readers would be more like it!
The day I see the first TV ad for a blog, will be the day I believe that blogs have truly arrived! And I do hope that that day comes soon.
[To a large extent, the views presented above are India-centric. Outside India, blogs are certainly much more "mainstream". ]
2 comments:
The very essence of blogging is the indepedent and personal nature of expression.As a blog reader I would never subscribe to the ratings of any agency since the decision on ratings would be personal.
My thoughts on this theme are here
Some excerpts:
Although I am a blogger on business and management issues, I think the day is still very, very far away that big Indian business will start blogging. May be more professional services firms, specially the small and medium ones that do not have the money power to mass advertise their expertise and whose clients have access to the net would start blogging to showcase their expertise.
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