Economy

The economy has affected everyone, and I have seen it first hand. I work at a small family owned restaraunt, and like most restaraunts we are affected. Business has definately decreased over the last year. Last summer my boss had to raise the prices a little bit to keep up with the high gas prices of the delivery trucks that deliver to us. We still have our good days like most weekends and around the beginning of the month, but business has not been nearly as good as it was when I started working there a couple years ago. We are 24 hours, but the overnights have been so bad during the week that there has been talk of closing down overnight, at least Monday-Wednesday. The waitresses are definately feeling it as they are getting less money from tips, and one of them has even picked up a second job. I am not too worried myself because I am not planning on working there for more than another year or two, but for most of the people I work with they are going to be depending on this job for a long time, so everyone is really hoping that things turn around soon and business picks back up.

Blogging

So what is the big deal about blogging? I have never really gotten into blogging and have always thought that it was just another internet fad like facebook or twitter. Now that I know more about blogging I see how wrong I was. Simply put, I believe that blogs equal freedom. Back in the days before 24 hour news and the internet, if you wanted news you had to buy print media like magazines or newspapers. The information in print media is easily controlled by others, so you only got to read what someone in charge felt was important. I don't really know if the US government used to control the media, but governments in other countries certainly did. Now that anyone can log onto the internet and blog about whatever they want, that control is gone. People can access loads of ideas from anywhere in the world that has the internet. This is my first ever blog so I don't really know much about how all this works, but something that I think will be challenging is finding stuff to write about that other people care about. Finding out about your audience and then writing stuff about what they think is interesting has got to be challenging.