Professional Bloggers Distinguish Blogs as an Important Medium for News and Information

Blogging is quickly becoming a popular and important source for information. Many newspapers and other media are using blogs to supplement their own stories in order to get the information to the public more quickly. Other than reporting stories, using and creating blogs for personal use is beginning to grow in popularity as well among web-users.

Morgan Josey Glover, a Content Manager and reporter for GoGreenTriad.com explains that blogs are not only important for getting information to the public quickly, but it is also important to point people in the right direction of other sites and professionals with more information.

In comparing newspapers and blogging, Josey explains, "newspapers need a lot of groud-work completed before they can actually start writing a story. Blogging is quick and provides immediate access to information even if it is not a full story." She goes on to add that blogging makes it easy to expand upon a story later when more information is obtained.

Bethany Keeley, a graduate student and professional blogger, started her own blog when she was in college. Her blog, which focuses on the humor of unncessary quotation marks, now has over 2,000 hits a day, and she may be considered a mini celebrity in the web-world. Keeley says that she finds blogs an important means for reactionary commentary on news and other information versus its common use as a means for reporting stories.

Keeley makes up to $500 a month from blogging on her site, where she posts up to four times a day. She laughs about being known as the "quotation girl", and snickers at the fact that "it is a fun party conversation versus talking about politics or religion that people sometimes find hard to relate to."

Both Keeley and Glover agree that blogging is becomming vastly important for companies and people everywhere to promote themselves and distribute information for the public.