PostOnFire - BlogIs Starting A News Blog a Good Idea?
February 8, 2008 – 11:40 pm
News blogs are growing in popularity each day. There are many factors that contribute to this development. The popularity of such blogs, along with the high rate of readership and reader loyalty of such blogs are just some of the reasons why people start a news blog. However, there are some issues to be considered seriously before you decide to start a news blog of your own.
First of all, starting a news blog is a great responsibility. A news blog is a blog that depicts the latest happenings in the particular niche that they are blogging. In order to sustain readership and loyalty, those stories have to be very accurate and timely. If those two crucial elements are not met, it spells disaster for your news blogs!
Basically there are two types of news blogs:
(One deals with time sensitive real-time information & the other you can call it a passive news blog)
1- Real-Time News Blogs
Real-time news blog involves materials that need to be published as soon as it occurs. This is called a real-time news blog. If you want to start a real time news blog, make sure you have access to timely data and be ready to publish them on your new blog as soon as they are available. If you have good contacts with reporters or people from all over the world, this is a good option for you. Real time news blogs are very popular and can get you rapid growth in the numbers of readership.
The issue is however to be able to get your hands on those relevant materials on time for publishing before anyone else does!
2- Passive News Blogs
This is a more passive form of news blogs; they are more relaxed in nature when compared to real-time news blog. Passive news blog resembles a review by the blogger of the current happenings. They are writing their own thoughts and perspective of their own interpretation of the current events. Therefore it is much more distorted view of the real event than accurate facts. If you don’t have the resources to start real-time blog but still desires the allure news blog have, starting a passive news blog is a good idea.
News blog is just one type of blogs, there are many other type of blogs I will mention later, like personal blogs, sales blogs, corporate blogs, customer support blog, product blog and so on… So just before you start your new blog project, learn what type of blogs you wanna maintain & it’s benefits.
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6 Responses to “Is Starting A News Blog a Good Idea?”
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Jason Rakowski
By Jason Rakowski on Feb 8, 2008
Rather than passive, I’d call your second category ‘insight’ or ‘interpretation’ blogs. As a lone blogger, you can never beat a news network, so either you run a news blog on a deeply vertical niche on which you have a premium network, or you give up to be on the pulse, but offer editorials.
By Hans on Feb 11, 2008
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By Ron on Feb 12, 2008
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By enblingbiz on Feb 14, 2008
Yes, I tried out news blogging for a while, but I had trouble making information I didn’t understand (I tried science and technology) interesting when I hardly understood it myself. I’d work off a BBC website or something anyway.
By Julia on Feb 14, 2008
It would be difficult to beat a news network, but a news blog could be interesting to someone who wanted more than just the “soundbite” news story.
As for me, I prefer news that is out of the ordinary, as found here:
http://isntlifestrange.blogono.com/
By Franklin on Feb 19, 2008