Here goes my second endeavor in the BloggingBlogs exercise. I found this blog, Vegetarian Organic Life by going to the "blogs of note" link on Blogger, since I was not having any luck finding anything through Google's blogsearch.
The blog is part of a bigger website completely focused on a way of life. The blog is the website developer's way of informing and/or ranting. Unlike most blogs, this one does not feature a sidebar of any kind. Instead, the purpose of the blog is basically in the URL; there is no blogroll or even an archive of previous blogs. You have to scroll down to find blog posts. The template is very basic, black-on-white text with images for each post.
This is definitely a filter. There are links in almost every post, and the writer mostly comments on the links, rather than on her life. The writer's opinion is very strong in a lot of her commentary, and even when she doesn't explicitly state how she feels about something she's posting, the opinion is still there. The topics she posts links to range from causes of obesity to the products chefs endorse to "greenwashing".
One could classify this as a pundit blog because the writer is seemingly an expert in her subject matter. It looks like she takes time to search for resources that are strong and credible, while fitting her opinions or giving her fuel for her rants against the exploitation of junk food and unhealthy lifestyles.
I think this blog is written both for an audience and for the writer. While the writer is finding and commenting on links, she is looking for her topics for herself, not so much for her audience (though the audience is important as well). One clue I had to this for-the-writer mindset is the lack of a blogroll that I mentioned earlier. Also, while there are one or two comments, sometimes three, on many of the postings, there does not seem to be a huge audience that she is writing for. Then again, there isn't a place to see how many views the blog has had, at least not that I could find, so it's hard to say how much readership it actually gets. Either way, I'm thinking that isn't the main focus for this, even with the filter setup. It's like a journal made of links.
The main goal of this blog seems to be to help build reputation, since it is part of a website and its focus is so strong. Self-expression shows in some of the commentary, as well as information sharing via links. So I guess you could say it's a mix of all three elements, with emphasis on reputation and info.
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