Think It My Way

     Every second of every day someone is on his computer blogging his life away.  Millions of various types of blogs are floating around in the cyber world.  Students are hustling at the last minute to submit their homework that is due.  Others are leisurely scanning through blogs in their spare time or just updating their blog with their daily entry.  Each blog has a different personality.  Each blog is meant to achieve something different.  While searching through the blog world, three interesting blogs that are written by students at my high school caught my eye.

    iThink, the catchy title of a blog written by upcoming senior JM Poff, was the first blog that received my attention.  iThink resembles the name of the highly popular iPod, which is adored by everyone.  In case some readers are not familiar with the iPod, Poff has thoroughly explained his title choice within the first section of his blog.  When a blog has a catchy title, readers become curious of what information the blog may contain, therefore they dig deeper into the blog just as I did.  Upon entering the blog, I was greeted with a very exhilarating layout.  The blog is not bland.  Instead, the blog has unique graphics, which grasped my attention.  iThink was very well thought out and planned.  Poff designed the blog so that when readers open the blog, they are not overwhelmed with so many items on one page.  Readers can easily search through several categories and choose the piece that they would like to read.  In many of Poff’s blog entries, he voices his opinion an all current events and hot topics in the news.  Some topics that Poff speaks about are the presidential candidates, problems in school, and abortion.  Poff eagerly interacts with his readers through comments on his post.  He almost always replies to comments that readers have left on his blog.  Poff’s blog iThink definitely inspired me and I look forward to reading more!

     Got Words?, another blog with a curiosity-catching title, is a blog written by another upcoming senior Audrey.  When entering Audrey’s blog, a person will enter a very subtle, organized blog, which is different than Poff’s.  Every post is organized into groups on the right side of the blog.  Organizing blogs in this way helps the readers navigate through a blog much easier.  Not only does Audrey make her pieces informative, but also she makes her posts entertaining to read.  When Audrey writes, she writes about current events, yet she puts a twist on them and includes stories that relate to her in some way.  Adding these pieces of her life makes reading her posts a lot more interesting.  Another aspect of Audrey’s blog that really makes her blog different from everyone’s is that on almost every post she has a picture or graphic that relates to the topic that she has written about.  Audrey has definitely “got words.” She is a very thorough writer and she always fully informs readers on her thoughts about a  subject.  Seeing how Audrey puts her thoughts out into the world has really encouraged me to try some of these ideas on my own blog.

     Wonderful, mind-boggling titles for blogs are very common for young people these days.  Another upcoming senior, Elizabeth, has created the blog Read..Think..Live.  My mind wandered in several different directions when I read her title.  Does she talk about the books she has read, the thoughts she thinks, or the life she lives? Elizabeth actually covers every one of those topics in some way.  Elizabeth has added a different feature to her blog by adding links to video clips and graphics to further explain her posts and let outside readers really feel like they are a part of what she is talking about.  While reading Elizabeth’s blog, one particular aspect caught my eye.  Seatbelt Safety, one piece of Elizabeth’s writings, really intrigued me.  She told about her own personal experiences with seatbelts.  Since I have read a real-life scenario about wearing seatbelts, I have been more persuaded towards the use and benefit of a seatbelt.  Seatbelts save lives and Elizabeth is luckily here to tell us her story.  Although Read..Think..Live is not one of the most creative blogs that I have seen, I found myself searching farther into Elizabeth’s blog to read more of her posts.

     In the world today, there are many different kinds and types of blogs written by a wide variety of people.  Three blogs that have been created by Poff, Audrey, and Elizabeth have inspired and encouraged me to do so much more with my blog!  I enjoyed reading their blogs and I hope they will continue to write and let the world hear their thoughts.

Callahan, Elizabeth. ”Seatbelt Safety.” Read..Think..Live.  20 June 2008. http://readthinklive.learnerblogs.org/2008/02/24/seatbelt-safety/#comment-26.