I'm going to try this: blogging my final paper. It seems fitting, give that the class is about blogging, so why not try to give a paper on the topic all the benefits and drawbacks of the medium that is being studied?
The challenge is writing in enough depth to provide adequate analysis for a grad class, without just sticking a ten page paper up on my blog, which, let's be honest, no one will read. So I'm going to post a series of writing, which hopefully will be short enough to draw some comments (please!), but taken together, will provide some interesting analysis. So, let's go to the next post...
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I hope everyone does this and then Colin may link to all of them from the main class blog.
Actually, I throw the ball back to you...you have many blogs. Why do you blog? Do you have a different reason for each one? Why do you follow our class discussions? What is your rhetoric? I'd be interested in any thoughts you have.
It's a disease! LOL
Initially I just wanted a place online to store some of my essays, so if the computer crashes or the disk get slost, the stuff is not lost forever. Then, people started reading, linking, commenting (even trolling) and it became interesting. I made online friends (and later met some in person). I got validation from other people who I trust.
Now it is more about connecting, making friends, promoting smaller bloggers and building community. As you can see, I only rarely post long essays these days. Instead, I post a lot of links, linkfests, carnivals, online quizzes and memes. Interestingly, since I changed my style my popularity skyrocketed, yet it is the old long serious essays that get the most hits.
My other blog, Circadiana, is meant primarily as a teaching tool, and hopefully one day, as a hub of the chronobiological community. I neglected it recently, but intend to put a lot of energy into it after I defend my PhD.
Other blogs are all group endeavors where I post only occasionally.
Why am I wathing your class? I don't know - I am a voyeour, I guess. This was a unique opportunity to actually see expressed the first thoughts and feeling of people freshly introduced to the medium. Newbies rarely reflect on what they are thinking about blogs and oldies are jaded or biased or both.
It was very interesting to me to see how many people here strongly disliked the political discourse on blogs, hated Kos and Wolcott, loved Coffee and Andrew Sullivan, and had mixed feelings about Vlogs. That is definitely NOT how old bloggers see them. It is refreshing and thought-provoking. Makes me think what I am doing with my blogs and why. How are they perceived. How am I perceived.
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