Okay, I'm going to blog about blogging.
I don't think I fully understand the point of blogging. Is it supposed to be like an online journal that others can read? But why? To share ideas? Why blogging? Why not some other form of communication?
I suppose, because I haven't blogged before this class, that I don't get why someone would blog on a regular basis.
Why do you blog?
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I agree with you on this. Its been a while since I created a journal, but I do remember when I was a kid I would always write about things that would upset me.
I found it hard sometimes to blog because unlike a sheet of paper you don't always have the computer right in front of you.
I feel ya! Like you I never blogged until this class, and I'm a writer! LOL. I prefer to write poetry and novels. But blogging to me seems just like another way to gossip. I can't help but think about that Bad Girls Show from Oxygen, where one of the girls started a "bad mouthing" blog about another girl that started alot of drama.
blogging to me is like a public online journal. it's like a notepad that you can just jot down anything you want on. nothing is blocking you, or reporting you for explicit content, or anything like that. i feel like i sometimes get writers block on here though. it's definately a different concept.
Unless the way people use blogging changes, I don't think I'll ever blog again after this class. I just don't see the point. No offense, but, I don't really care about what someone I don't know thinks about John McCain or Sarah Palin (they rock!), or whatever subject they are blogging about. If I want to read something it will be from a respected journalist like Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh! (Sorry, I couldn't resist inserting a little politics).
Yikes, what "rocks" about Sarah Palin??
Anyway, I do agree that some of us read the blogs of people we are interested in to listen to their views. For example, Jeremy is interested in Hannity's opinions, so maybe he would read his blog to get his views on things. I might read blogs from teaching professionals to learn from them and hear about experiences.
However, I can't imagine why anyone would want to read, say my blog, just talking and venting about day-to-day things. I guess you just have to consider the source of the blog, because some are useful, or at least entertaining, but most are probably just people venting.
She rocks the non-sequiturs, that's for sure.
I must have missed the memo on Rush Limbaugh being a respected journalist. I wouldn't disallow one of my students to use him as a source, but I would certainly require two or more additional sources to verify a Limbaugh claim.
In any case, Dana's observation is in step with the research on blogs, which shows that people blog because there is an audience to do so. Bloggers have the exigency to write because somebody is reading their work, whether it's a few friends, the knowledge that anybody on the Web could surf in and read, or a popular blog with an readership of millions.
If I had the will-power to keep up with a blog, I would write my thoughts Catcher-in-the-Rye style for my own self-realization efforts.
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