Research into blogging

Now I've been using blogging for a while now, I've been considering the strengths and weaknesses of blogging. One of the main strengths of it I think is that I can make it personal to me, as it allows you to include a photo of yourself and choose a layout that suits you. It's also another strength that blogs are interactive. This is helpful because it means you can include video links, images off the internet, scanned images and podcasts in your blog as well. These can explain the work you're doing better. Another strength is that you can follow other people and perhaps get tips from how they are writing in their blogs. I also like how you get more freedom from doing blogs in that you can write as little or as much as you want.
However, there are weaknesses in it as well when concerning including your own paper based work in the blogs. You have to scan it in which can be time consuming which sometimes defeats the point of blogs being quicker to do compared to hand writing it.