Week 6!

The power of the Weblog or should I say potential! Well after this morning’s lecture and this weeks reading I have been exposed to the wonders of the possibility of the power of the blog! So what I previously thought to be a boring simple hobby for computer enthusiasts I now realise like most things we study at Uni is a very broad system which cannot be so easily defined! So unlike other media the internet/web 2.0 has given us the power to choose whether we want a blog to keep in contact with friends or get a little more serious and start commenting on current affairs and put ourselves out there in the public sphere for all to hear(well as was pointed out in this morning lecture who ever happens to care or stumble upon our blogs) or even we have the choice to create these weblogs as a hobby or a professional operation that generates income through the commercialisation of the blog, or you can simply use the blog to ask people to give you money, wow,wow,wow! Who’d have thought that there’s so much potential! So I guess there’s really something for everyone AMAZING! Nothings ever really simple even trying to define the blog, well that took two readings and a lecture and then there’s further concern over the impact that A-list bloggers will have on the participatory nature of weblogs! Well like everything nothing last forever sorry to have such a morbid view on the subject! But technology as we have seen will progress and if all this is happened since 1999 then well whose to say we wont have moved on to something new and better to congregate and participate within and the whole process will be able to branch out and start again!