After reading Rebecca Blood's Weblog: A History and Perspective, I am left with a little more admiration for bloggers. I have always assumed that blogging was a lonely kids way of reaching out to the world, but now i know much more. I now realize that blogging gives people of every age group and allows people to share their opinions, talk about news etc. in a free way. Blood talks about how much blogging had evolved from 1999 when it was first started to only one year later when she posted this blog. I can only imagine how much more blogging has evolved in the last ten years and i would be very interested to read Blood's thoughts on it now.
It was very interesting to read about how blogging emerged in the web and was controlled by companies. The reader then finds how, rather quickly, personalized blogs came out. It is also interesting to read about how different people use blogs in many different ways. Some people use it as a journal to document on their lives while others talk about social activism and other news worthy stories.
I liked what Blood said about how blogging is almost a free-formed style of writing. There are no restrictions on what you say and people from all over the world are still able to read your opinions and comment on them.
Another part of Bloods blog I enjoyed was when she talks about how she found her interests by blogging. This begged the question in my mind if that will happen to me from taking this class. Is it possible that I don't know my interests very well since I've never blogged? I hope to discover if what happened to Blood happens to me when I begin to blog.
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