Blogs are rated by their contents. Today, my friends and I had a discussion on what makes a blog good. What came up frequently was the contents that are relatable, current affairs and the amount of external links and media contained in each post. Most importantly is whether the contents were related to the readers or current for them to keep coming back for more. Take for example one of the top ten gaming blogs, ‘That Video Game Blog‘ . Due to my love for games, we shall take this blog as an example! I love reading about the latest trend and news for game or technology releases.
That Video Game Blog
The interesting thing about this blog is that they are very organised. They organised their posts with categories and tags. For example, new products are labelled under ‘Feature News’ and reviews and talks about the news under ‘Reviews’ and ‘Editorial’. My favourite section is the Lifestyle section. Not only do they talk about the games featured, they talk about Japan and their famous snacks (as seen in the pictures).
REVIEW/Taste of Japan
Each post will definitely have an image to give visuals on their posts for the readers to see and videos for further elaboration and entertainment. In short, contents play a big role in what makes the best blog. The media and external links, boost the readers’ knowledge on the specific topic to help them understand better and just for kicks sometimes. These factors help with the ratings and that makes a popular blog.
Food For Thought:
It is a form of trust between the bloggers and the readers. When readers read blogs, they trust the bloggers enough to tell them reliable news. Arguably, there are plenty of hoax and rumours or unconfirmed scandals on the Internet these days. People need to choose whether to believe or not. What happened to all that trust now? One of the recent news of the crash on MH370 was a viral news. The bad side of it is that everyone had their opinions on it but with the collective thinking and facts that have been gathered, which may or may not be accurate, speculated more rumours and false information on the said incident. LiveLeak.com has confirmed that the MH370 hoax was exposed by the video being staged. However, can we even trust this information as well? 
Incidents as big as these events, when the whole world is following on it, tend to get many opinions. These collective facts blurs out the real truth until it is published from the people themselves who were investigating the case. However, people still do not trust all of whatever filtered announcements due to the possibility of a cover up story or something as that.
A question ran through my mind while reading this passage. What happens if the world puts their trust on blogs as their resource for news? People have their freedom to talk and voice out their own opinions but when there are too many opinions, who do we trust then? We cannot always rely on what the media tells us.