Blog Topic Research…

So I have been perusing cyber space in order to find a few outlooks on the particular blog topic that I have decided to focus on: how the private and public worlds interact with the world of weblog. I came across one very intriging source: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/viegas.html . This source introduced a particular part of the [...]

Blog Topic Search.

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 [...]

Poking around blogs…

When blogging first started in the late 1990s, it did not catch on right away but by early 2000s it was the next big thing. At first bloggers had to know and understand HTML but soon sites like Blogger.com came along providing templates that allowed people to write what they wanted without worrying about design.
In [...]

S. Craig Watkins, “The Young and the Digital,” interview

I came across this interview with S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital and professor of Radio-Television-Film at University of Texas-Austin.  This interview raises a range of issues we’ve talked about…There’s an interesting part on “safety,” an issue that Laura has raised in class.  There’s also some interesting stuff on the “migration” [...]

findings in the world of visual blogs

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/
things like photojournalism are becoming easier to find through blogs. even an industry giant like the new york times uses blogs visually to tell stories.
in scarier thoughts, there are people stealing others pictures off the internet and using them to their advantage. can you imagine seeing your face next to someone else’s words and thoughts? [...]

The Classroom and the Blog

I feel like with that title I am about to tell a tale about a valient hero and an awful villian. However, not about to take that route.
After reading this article about blogs in the classroom, I realized that blogging is an extremely useful and modern tool for students in the classroom. Blogs are a [...]

Visual Blog and Literary Labyrinth Summaries

Visual Blogs
As far as visual orientation goes, the concept of having blogs with more pictures than words is spreading like wildfire across the internet.  People are very visually oriented.  They are more likely to gleam their information from pictures and snippets of text rather than reading large paragraphs.  Visual blogs play on this idea.  News [...]

Visual Blog Summary

Visual Blogs
“Different mediums evoke different ways of viewing. While we might gaze at a painting, we watch television and we see films. The Internet, however, we tend to glance[1] at; our eyes skim over the screen in a freefall of vision until something interests us enough to pause the plummet momentarily.”
I cannot express how much [...]

blogs in the classroom

after reading the blog about blogging in the classroom, i have come to realize the good and the bad ideas about it. some good i see is that it is simple to use. anyone can easily create a free account and start telling the world their opinions. in the classroom setting it is helpful for [...]

Moving to the Public: Weblogs in the Writing Classroom

     Ok, so I chose to focus on this as my blog from another group, a blog I’m not actually focusing on.  I like the idea of using blogs in the classroom.  It is a more useful purpose for a blog.  Also, others can view the class blog and learn from it.  Class blogs add [...]