We blog, We-Media

Web page has become a main form of internet communication. As an internet medium, it contains some functions of printing media as well as some characteristics of visual media. Blogs can be treated as personal web pages; however, the way they have been used is far more different from what we called those traditional web pages. The traditional web pages are more like the formal publish reading; they probably require some of the technicians to design and update them. Sometimes, the content of them have to be thought carefully, hence, the costs and the techniques are considerably high. In comparison, blogs are easier to use and organize by individuals. Their contents can be news, diary, photo, poem, academic essay, music, video, story and so on. They are open to everyone, and people feel free to use them.

The most important meaning that the internet has brought to people's life is its medium characteristic, because it can do something that traditional media cannot do. Such as E-mail solved the time problem of regular mail, the instant web-phone made the cost less than the telephone communication, the web-cam increased the interactivity, and the importance of blog is that it allows the individual to take over and participate to the mass media. Although the purpose of each blogger can be different, the way that the blogs have been used is not something privately, it trends to close to the mass, people write things on them and want their things to be read as a piece of public reading. Also, we all know that there is a good feeling when we share something with others.