Upon entering the blogosphere, I had few expectations as far as how successful my endeavor would be. Three weeks in, I have come to the understanding that blogs can be powerful tools for news outlets, yet still stand as a means of allowing anyone with an internet connection to spew useless information onto the web. While initially I found this to be detrimental to society, I have come to the realization that all I have to do is simply ignore the blogs which I find dumb. If I dont search for useless blogs, I won't find them.
Working with this blog has been particularly easy, as long as the PioneerNet decides to turn itself on while I am trying to post. Blogger has made the blogging process incredibly accessible. With only a couple clicks of the mouse and keyboard, I am logged in and ready to post new entries to my blog. Last quarter, I was posting to blackboard discussions, which I now realize as being much more difficult as far as accessibility and user friendliness goes.
Reading and writing on the web is a cultural phenomenon that has just began to emerge in the past 15 to 20 years. My opinions on this phenomenon have changed slightly during this blogging process in which I have embarked on. The are some incredible news sources which exist in the forms of blogs such as the Drudge report and the Huffington Post which I hd previously disregarded as just another blog. But with further examination, I have come to realize that these such posts are monitored and are edited. Knowing that I have missed out on these useful news sources, I do think that in the future I will look to them to stay current on recent events.
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