Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Finding Out More About Blogs

A. In 1997 Jorn Barger, the creator of a web site about James Joyce, artificial intelligence, and Judaism as racism called Robot Wisdom, invented the word "Weblog." In 1999 Peter Merholz, the creator of a Weblog called Peterme, divided the word into "We blog", forming a word that can be either noun or verb. The noun is a Blog and the verb is To blog.

B. The author thought it was a horrible idea to write a book about blogs because of the vast difference there is between them. For a start, blogs are messy, they talk about anything, show alot of opinions, don't go into detail and just assume you know what they are about. Books are much more organized, they follow an outline, have a clear story and a scense of purpose. Writing a book about blogs would be like piling up one idea after another, withoout elaborating or describing them in an orderly and book-like way.

C. Today you can find blogs about any subject, written by anyone, anywhere you can get acces to Internet (which is basically everywhere). Before there would only be a reserved amount of blogs on certain topics, because of the vast improvements in technology and Internet access or because of more conservative views and forms of expresions as before.

D. Some people enjoy better reading a blog instead of an article, a newspaper, or a book because in blogs you get the literature you expected plus the writers opinions, their likes or dislikes, and their ideas in a way that is free to write and fun to read.

D. Blogs are a very modern and quick bridge to information. However, as we know that there are millions of blogs abaout everything, it is certain that some of them will be reliable and some won't. One problem is that most of all the blogs in the world will be biased in some way, it is basically what we're looking for when we read a blog. Other problems are that we can never bensure of what we read and we can never take imformation from a blog seriously unless we check it before.

E. I think if I started my own blog, not related to school, I would call it 'According to Moi'.

F. Tao Te Ching, my version - http://jorielle-tao.blogspot.com/

A Midsummer Night's Dream - http://bardinthebarracks.wordpress.com/

Grad Student Madness - http://gradstudentmadness.blogspot.com/

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