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A blog, there are so many attempts to explain the real definition of it and how it works that they all basically lead to a bunch of descriptions or a writing. Blogs today are the basis of our society in many ways: Their definition resembles the one of an individual’s life; restless, at full speed and nonstop. As Sara Boxer said “Bloggers breeze through places, people, texts, and blogs that you might or might not know”. We are so full of activities and “to-do” things that we simply breeze through everything. Blogs give out a lot of information about absolutely every topic, all kinds of knowledge is found in the blogs and links on them that there is no end. Surfing through the blogs can easily become an addiction. I believe that there is a whole bunch of people stuck to their computers rapidly flying through all kinds of posts, blogs, links that lead them to new information and we, all of us are thirsty to know much more than we now in the present. “They move from blogs to news clips to videos on YouTube, and they do it more easily than you can turn a newspaper page.” What is the point of reading a magazine or a book if we can go much further on the internet? One reason can be that it’s part of history, and culture and bla bla bla, yet it’s not of great importance when we can find out all we want of our interest in just one click.

A book of an anthology of blogs is ironic. The meaning of the Blog is to be found on the internet and be eternal; a book is not eternal and is not free, as a blog is. Blogs are the new literature, the modern art of writing. It takes skill to write a blog that interests crowds. Books are the past, and progress is in the future. “Making a book out of bloggy material, if it could be done at all, would kill it, wouldn't it?” Sara is right; I don’t even think a book of blogs can be done. If it is done, how –out of 100 million blogs that are about doubled every 5 minutes- would the blogs be chosen? Probably by the level of popularity, which leads to a wrong intention of the blogs, “Now that fame and links are one and the same, there are bloggers out there who will do practically anything—start rumors, tell lies, pick fights, create fake personas, and post embarrassing videos—to get noticed and linked to.” And it is still valid, because blogs have no rubric to follow, nor a series of rules not to break. Gossip and rumors are what sell the most. The best example I can think of is Facebook, “A January 2009 Compete.com study has ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.” (Wikipedia) I myself am afraid to be a little dependant of Facebook. It is basically a very complex way of blogging. Every little detail about all the people around you is published by “mini blogs” that we send to each other, and infinity of other applications.

As a matter of fact, the less information you get in a blog the more you get stuck in it and want to find out more. “They often begin their posts mid-thought or mid-rant—in medias craze. They don't care if they leave you in the dust.” Sara describes perfectly one of the main characteristics of blogs, they are not written to please and fulfill the readers, they are simply posted. If a blog is of your interest then you keep connecting to other links. The essence of a blog is that it doesn’t end in one click.