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Week 7 Readings Blog, March 14, 2009

Article #1 –“Blogging: What is it?”
Blogging can be done by anyone if they are connected to the internet. People and journalists gain a whole bunch of general, political, technological, and scientific knowledge from blogs. People can take advantage of medical reviews, movie reviews, and restaurant reviews from different peoples’ blogs and you can use it 24 hours. Blogging is a source of information for the public and journalists. As mentioned in the article some people are sharing their happy moments of a holiday and the next day people are grieving on tsunami victims. People enjoy reading other people’s expressions and they can help each other in their sorrows and grief through blogs.
The key point is the bloggers can express their feelings on practically anything in blogs, including their political, cultural, or worldly views. It is almost like a diary. If you feel like writing on a particular subject, you can write. The only difference is the public is reading these blogs.
The second key point is blogs make an impact on how people use the web. People try to put their true feelings to share with others and to receive responses as well. Participative culture is developed through collective intelligence and knowledge. The knowledge shared on line public can participate in blogging to express their views. As mentioned in the article (how blogs could merge with traditional journalism resulting in participative journalism) peoples’ blogs can become the best resource of information for the public and journalists.
Being connected to people and interact with the community people get to know each other and keep the bloggers up to date with the technology is the true motivation of blogging. Blogging is a source of information for public and journalists community news resource
It’s very hard for me to understand the ethical responsibility of blogging. It seems to me bloggers just write their inner feelings about the topics in which they are interested, although people do understand that blogs are public knowledge and they have to be careful about the language and understand not to hurt anyone’s feelings and try to write non-biased blogs.
Blogs are an example of digital convergence through internet users creating a web-based diary or blog.

Question #1: Is the blog information from all different backgrounds confusing the public?
Question #2: Are people spending more time on the internet because of blogging?



Article #2 - “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Blog”

The writer is telling us how she started to blog and progressively it turned into all kinds of community issues and politically helped in election season. The writer is telling us that anyone could be a civic blogger if they wished to. It is the most inexpensive way to help people out and share with the community. She experimented with new topics. For example, her lunch meetings, and it was amazing how people got hooked to blogs and a whole bunch of people joined for lunch, with gives them the chance to socialize and talk more about community or general issues and politics, et cetera.
The first key point is how blogs brought the community together. It evoked community feeling. It turned out to be a safe way to deal with the civic issues of the community. For instance, they were giving an example of the trash to be picked up once a week instead of twice a week and how it brought the community and people together.
The second key point is how it helped in elections in how she educated the people in giving them information about the candidates through interviewing the candidates. It helped people to choose the candidates for voting and because of that more people came to vote.
People should be mindful of offensive content that might hurt or upset someone’s feelings in the blogs, or maybe they should consider using common sense when they write blogs so they do not hurt anyone’s feelings but rather respect the feelings of others.
Blogging is like sharing your feelings with others without any fear, with the hope that others will be encouraged to share their feelings at the same time. People have to start trusting each other by reading the true feelings or the neutral expressions in blogs.

Question #1: What laws should bloggers be concerned about?

Question #2: Is public liable for lawsuits if they put any unsuitable comments in blogs?