I think that searching the actual topics on blogging (the ones which we touched on in class) has helped me to see that these topics are bigger than I imagined.
For the privacy topic,my google search turned out many links about how to blog safely or different aspects of privacy settings. It was very broad and spread out on many topics like the ones we talked about in class. My search about visual design turned out a lot of information about (as expected) coding and different ways to make a blog look the way you might want it to.
I used the “Academic Search Complete” data base for the subject of “privacy in blogging” (thinking that might have been too specific of a topic) and found 32 results just for privacy. So then i was thinking, well privacy is also a critical issue that is a bit more controversial, so i decided to search for something on visual design in blogs. For this i only found one specific article that actually spoke about web design. I think it’s safe to say that the privacy issue is more of a common or written about topic because of it’s interesting nature where as the web design is the less controversial of the two and therefore can be deemed less interesting.
The one about privacy I found to be interesting is one called “Blogging in the Academy”. It was intriguing because it talks about blogs being a “hot topic in academia”. This kind of touches on some things we talk about in class, and also talks about safety and security.
Either way I find the Social Action blogosphere article more interesting, as does (in my opinion) the general public.
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