Monday, November 29, 2010

Blogs and Blogging

Aimee Morrison article.

                                The first thing you will notice about Aimee Morrisons article “Blogs and Blogging” is that it is a really big block of writing, broken sporadically by sub headings. You are immediately filled with those negative feelings associated with having to do something unpleasant, and it runs the risk of being labelled boring before you even begin to read; but once I did begin I was pleasantly surprised by the fact i was reading a lot without noticing because it was interesting. It had many useful and trivial facts about blogging that were both surprising and informative.
                                It offered a definition of the word ‘blog’ which is surprisingly hard to define as succinctly as she did, but while these facts were amusing and interesting to read to begin with, it very quickly turned to tedious reading. The article seems to have every piece of information possible about blogs and you are left unsure of the angle the author is taking other than to provide reams of random information about blogging; but the random information is quite informative and well researched. In fact some of her statistics are almost unbelievable, and really prove how popular blogging has become in such a short space of time. Blogging is fast becoming a well known and well used information outlet and many media outlets scholarly institutions are using blogs aswell. Blogs are the perfect example of how textual transmission is developing. Her paragraphs on the genres of blogging are eye opening in that everything she is saying seems quite obvious but you never would have thought of it yourself. It is a bit complicated if you are a first time blogger and are just looking for some general information as there is the possibility of getting lost in the information, but perfect if you looking for a more in depth analysis of blogging.


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