The irony. A blogger writing a blog on blogging. Can you tell I watched Inception yesterday?
We’ve all seen them. Opinion bloggers, hashing out their “strong opinions” with little consideration to grammar or facts. It’s even worse when they have a following of equally-uninformed devotees.
To me, blogs have come to mean strong opinions based on poor evidence or flat-out disproved theories. These blogs tend to say what people want to hear, polarize followers and send them running to their family and friends to rant about their unsupported opinion with no references to cite except the blog.
Quite a few blogs have also become online diaries. I have no problem with those. Though they might be rife with poor grammar and awkward formatting, they typically don’t have the ravenous following that opinion blogs have.
Blogs could be a force for good. With proper fact-checking and attention to detail, blogs could be a great way to inform the average internet user with a more casual setting than a news outlet like CNN or the BBC.
I would like to hope that in the future, readers will take it upon themselves to fact-check the blogs they read and inform other readers in the comment section of any false statements. I wouldn’t bet on it, though.
Tana S. Ford 
I think you have an interesting point, in how people with blogs do have strong opinions with weak supporting evidence. I also agree that blogs are definitely a more casual delivery of information for readers. If I read an opinion blog that makes me feel informed, I’ll be more likely to follow that blog than someone just putting it all out there.
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First off I would like to say I really liked your blog. You state an opinion and use evidence to back it up. You’re doing exactly what these opinionated bloggers do not, and I’m excited to see what you blog about in the future. Your first line caught my attention. Maybe you can give me some tips on blogging?
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