Blogging ..and then Web 2.0

Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs?

All of the blogs that I have encountered are for personal blogging. Like this blog about the adventures a mother was having raising her kids. Or someone writing up what they thought about a movie.

I don't know how, but I (as far as I can tell) have not read any/or many blogs on citizen journalism, as regarding 'important' events in the first person... 

I find as I have explored, blogs are a place where a person, can simply write anything they wish, their own personal space on the web.

Of course, if you read a few lines of someone's blog and don't find it interesting, is it too bad for you or too bad for them?

HTML vs Web 2.0; Whats the difference between the two? what are the benefits? which format do you think you would like better and why?

Web 2.0 can be thought of as a live database, with a frontend in the form of a dynamic webpage. A bad front end cannot compare with well laid out HTML page with the same information.

In this case I would say blinklist definitely has the upperhand as the HTML page has no formatting whatsoever (besides the hyperlinks), but I really cannot appreciate the google ads(on blinklist), which are currently, "Anuncios Google|Young Model|فیلم|Tatuajes|Little Girls". Kind of creepy. Of course a plain ol' HTML page can still have advertisements on it a la Tripod.

With a little CSS, the HTML page would be on a more level playing field for viewing, except for the fact that it would still be trouble to update it, unlike Blinklist, which is designed for this, ie a single click to bookmark something vs 3 mins of writing up html code.

Also, for blinklist, other people can contribute to the same tags, which is good, however, a tag may mean a different thing to you than it does to someone else..