Oh No They Didn't!

A great example of a well-written and designed blog is Oh No They Didn't. Created only a few years ago, ONTD has blown up into a widely known celebrity gossip blog with over 100 million viewers. This blog is run by an administrative team and its members. Any member of the community is allowed to post an entry, and the admin approves it. Repeated articles rarely show up and the information sources are always listed to ensure credibility. As long as you are a member of the community, you are free to post and comment. Not to mention, it is highly addictive. ;-)

This blog is different from other types of news writing for quite a few reasons. As mentioned in class, people can comment on these articles and edited as needed. There is a very distinct sense of humor that is present in the blogs as well as the comments which makes them fun to read. While this is the only blog I read regularly, I'm sure there are others out there that are just as entertaining!

To be honest, I do not know many students that read blogs. The closest thing to a blog that I know is enormously popular among students is Facebook. There are just so many blogs out there and it is hard to pinpoint one that appeals to you (I learned about Oh No They Didn't through a friend). I think that blogs would be a successful tool for journalists and public relations professionals to use if they are advertised in a very public place, such as a magazine or ad on a popular website. If no one has heard about it, the chances of multiple finding and reading it are very slim.