HW2- Blogs go Corporate

In Dan Burnstein’s “From Cave Painting to Wonkette: A short History of Blogging” he mentions that blogging will become corporate. As one of his 12 ideas he states “The interaction of business and blogging will be many-sided and multidimensional. Business is obviously being changed in a number of superficial ways as a result of these trends (Burnstein xxiii).” I completely agree with Burstein’s ideas on this topic. Blogging is become such a big part of our world and it is now starting to break into the Business world. One blog I saw talked about restaurants in my hometown, comparing them to each other and saying which ones were not recommended. Believe it or not this had a huge effect on where people in my town started eating. Living in a relatively small town word spread quickly. Soon everyone new which restaurants were good and which didn’t make the cut in the town. One bloggers opinion had such a large impact that a restaurant started losing business because of this.
On the other hand corporations and businesses are also gaining from blogs. They can advertise there businesses and try to sell them to the best of there ability. Businessmen and women are soon finding out that blogging can be just as useful as advertising in magazines, on the radio or on TV! I believe that sooner then we think blogging will be a vital part in the survival of businesses.