Thursday, September 6, 2007

blogging is particularly interesting?

Many people assume that blogs are particularly interesting because they marry so much personality and attitude with this complex mix of software technologies At the same time that I believe this to be true, I also believe that blogs can be over-telling and too much like a diary. To me, blogs are hard to understand because in some cases, the way a person writes how they are feeling may not be read the way they want it to sound. For instance, if a person is trying to be sarcastic, it can be hard to read if it is not obvious sarcasm. I have always believed in freedom of speech and saying what is on your mind, therefore my feelings toward posting blogs is very unclear. Blogging can be a good way to voice a person’s emotions, opinions and feelings on a certain subject because some people are better at writing down how they feel, rather than expressing that emotion in person. I agree that blogging is a great way to keep in touch and communicate with people all across the world, however when do you know when you’ve written too much or offended a person in your blog because you are opening yourself up for the whole world to understand your feelings.

2 comments:

Tracy Mendham said...

Is this HW 2?

Tracy Mendham said...

This meets some of the requirements of the assignment, and I like the way you discuss the ambivalence of your feelings about blogs.
It's very important, though, when you use someone else's words or ideas, to credit the source--to fail to do so is considered plagiarism. Dan Burstein says that "blogs are particularly interesting because they marry so much personality and attitude with this complex mix of software technologies," but from the way you've presented it, a reader would think you were claiming the words and idea were your own. In introduce quotes and paraphrases with a signal phrase, enclose borrowed words in quotation marks, and provide an in-text citation at the end.