Profile a Blog

So I have a problem. I am creating an academic blog soon and to be honest with you I have no idea how to write an academic blog I mean the only blog that I follow on occasion is the self proclaim Gossip Gangstar Perez Hilton. So since Perez clearly does not count as an example of an academic blog I did some researcher and finally found my role model.

My savior is the healthcare blog . This popular blog deals with a variety of subjects all seeking in exploring the health care system and properly informing the public of the current developments occurring in that field. Its motto is to provide...

“Everything you always wanted to know about the Heath Care system. But were
afraid to ask.”

The creator is Matthew Holt, a researcher, generalist forecaster, and strategist that has been working in the health care industry for over 15 years. Although he is the creator of the blog, he is not the only blogger contributing to it. Just last year, the health care blog became a group blog allowing other authors, mostly professionals, to add blogs on the topic. Therefore it allows the blog to be more active and have 5 to 6 post a day from different people giving in different perspectives. For example, in a recent post titled “Health Care Reform: What do people Really Want?” was written by a professional pollster using his findings to support and write his conclusions. This particular blog contains many of these particular entries that have been written by people with the knowledge and background to further enlighten the readers on the subject. Having these kinds of bloggers has made the healthcare blog one of the most respectable healthcare blogs on the web and has been described as a“must-read” by The Wall Street Journal. With all this buzz, the blog is rapidly growing in readers everyday and it is rapidly becoming...

“the most respected independent voices in the healthcare industry.”

Sounds perfect right! Seems to me that this blog has an immense amount of information being posted by different people that are either professionals in healthcare industry or are experts in certain aspects of the topics. For example some of the professionals contributing to the blogs include doctors, pollsters, Washington policy makers, and the list goes on but it is not only limited to professionals. The Health Care blog is a mix of professional scholarly works that may have been published elsewhere and also regular people that may have something interesting to add to the blog. Like Rod Unger a normal guy from the UK that wrote a post called "Healthcare in the UK" that described how their single-payer system is not as bad as it seems. The blog can both provide me with academic resources and information from a variety of professionals and also a personal perspective from people like Rod. The Health Care blog will then provided me with reliable information but when it comes to my blog I will not focus on so many topics but just a few since I seek to properly dissect them and explain them. I also want to study the health care systems of other nations and compare and contrast them to the current system in the US. So hopefully my problems will be at least eased with a small dose of the healthcare blog.