HW 17B: Daily Kos v. Wonkette

After reading "Blogging the Presidency: An interview with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga" and "Sex, Lies, and Political Scrapes: An interview with Ana Marie Cox", I felt as if I was reading about two completely different kinds of blogs. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's blog, Daily Kos, focuses clearly on providing information and insights to fully change the way citizens along with politicians view the political world. Daily Kos is filled with Zuniga's ventings of the injustices he sees in the political world. His blog is widely known, widely influenced, and and certainly a success. Daily Kos takes in over 500,000 visits a day, receiving much recognition for its serious honesty and achievement as a blog. Ana Marie Cox's blog is portrayed a bit differently than Daily Kos. From the title of the interview with Ana Marie I could almost immediately tell which blog is more impacting to the political world. Wonkette is a blog filled with gossip from the D.C. area which may change some people's views about an election, yet gossip is defined as the idle talk of rumors, so the effect that people can be influenced through Ana Marie's blogs is almost sad to hear about through the political world. It is certainly interesting and humorous to read, yet through her blogs and the interview it is evident that Ana Marie does not take her writing about politics that seriously. It seems as though Ana Marie views blogging more as a hobby while Markos views blogging as his job and passion. Therefore the Daily Kos would much likely influence me more than Wonkette would near a coming election. I would not base my views off of gossip and nonsense and would prefer to hear a more reasonable side of view where a point is proposed and argued.