HW 14: Applying Transitions to "Take An Obsession, Then Feed It!"

Accordingly, when I chose to read, “Take an Obsession, Then Feed It” I was quite surprised by the words spoken by the man being interviewed. Therefore, Nick Denton, a thirty-six-year-old British expatriate and former Financial Times reporter, discusses in his interview the use of hiring unknown writers for his blog. After all, he knows that they are much “hungrier” to write in the blogs then he is. Moreover, he speaks of the importance of blogging and how he feels it is important, even to businesses. Actually, he states that, “over the next five years weblogs will aggregate much bigger audiences and have a larger impact on society and politics and culture and business as a result.” (Burstein and Kline 154) As a result what I found to be the most interesting was when he said that that a lot of bloggers don’t have any special expertise in any subject, or any special access to newsmakers, not that they close to the “street” of any situation or conflict.” Also, I agree with him because I feel that a lot of bloggers don’t really know a lot about the topics that they blog about because they are their own personal opinions or ideas and there’s no need for expertise or facts necessarily. Hence, the main point of his interview was when he states that he doesn’t think that these types of people will earn reader’s trust as being more authoritative than the New York Times.