When we started class I thought that blogging was a way for smart people to throw their technical ideas around on the internet; little did I know that it was for everyone even people like me who use the internet for its basic uses. Over the past few weeks I have developed a new respect for the blogging world as it is an art to me, not a way for geeks to show their technical genius by giving advice that the common man would not know. I can now get online and express my feelings freely (well certain feelings) and instantly to a crowd who will either accept me or criticize me. Either way the fact that I am able to write things and “publish” them is amazing.
The great thing that really made blogging very interesting to me is how easy it is to blog and post whatever I wrote in a matter of seconds. The one issue that I have with blogging is that if I make a mistake or say something wrong, it is public so anyone can rip what I say in pieces and make a public spectacle of me. Furthermore, blogs aren’t as reliable as articles or other pieces that have been edited or revised by multiple people.
Throughout the past five weeks I have not changed my internet habits as much, and my view hasn’t changed much either on reading and writing on the web. I still do not have a different view on pieces on the web because I have not read as many blogs as I should. For me the pieces that I read are on news websites such as CNN.com or abcnews.com and they are edited and go through a system to make sure they are accurate. Nevertheless, I can say that I see the arguments that some people make that writing has changed compared to newspaper writing as writing on the internet is easier. I think that writing for a newspaper is more competitive than online because if you want to be published online you have to do your best because of the limited space; if you write for an online website you are able to put as many articles as you want online.
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I liked how your first focus was about the spread of ideas. I agree very strongly that due to blogging (and the like) we can rapidly spread our ideas, which in turn allows us to learn the views of others. This can help us to learn other sides of an issue we are writing about,especially if someone is playing "devil's advocate."
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said about your changing idea of blogging. I like your quote saying the blog can "instantly publish" your work. That is a good way of thinking of it, especially since in our classroom discussion, we talked about how important it is for authors to write without a real publisher that can censor their work. Good post!
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