After going thru a few, last week, Lindsey and I agreed to focus on Visual Blogs and The Labyrinth Unbound: Weblogs as Literature. They are just the most interesting I think, out of what’s on the site. I usually hate dealing with technology and the internet, so I am not a fan of blogging, but this assignment is a huge help so that if ever need be, I understand blogging well enough to write and keep a blog.
Visual Blogs are interesting, words are included, but are not the focus. The idea is to get your point across in pictures. They could be photos you took and added a caption to, comics, and anything you could think of including pictures. These are successful, as we live in a face-paced time, and people need only glance over something to understand it. Or at least we may only have time to glance over something.
Blogging is usually not thought of as literature. I didn’t before really looking at them this much. Usually they are journals of daily happenings of regular people, with really not much to say. Yet if we look at the fact that teachers, students, and people going thru some sort of life changing event use blogs as well, it changes the importance of blogs. You could really post a book or a book in the writing process, as a blog. Blogs can be a source of literature. They have a purpose when documenting important information, just not when they are a daily journal.
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just realized in this, i did summarize the two we are reading. that is my summary of them.