HW 2 - Personal Reading Response
After reading Dan Burstein’s “From Cave Painting to Wonkette,” I am able to develop a better understanding of blogging, where it came from and the main topics that are covered from politics, business, media and culture. Its amazing to think that blogging dates back to people paintings and sculptures that where displayed throughout the caves. They were depicted as continuiouse stories without any letters or numbers. To see throughout the years how people have developed differnt methods of blogs from pictures to writting in a notebook, and now using online is very interesting. What appeared to be the most interesting to me is one of the twelve key ideas that Burstein stated, ” Blogs are particularly interesting because they merry so much personality and attitude with this complex mix of software technologies.” It amazes me how many different topics are discussed throughout blogging and the amount of time that people put into some of these thoughts and ideas. I feel that using blogging can express a lot of personality and attitude that you would always be able to get across through speaking your thoughts aloud. This can also help create debates, new ideas, movement, and argumentation of which can be either positive or negative to businesses, citizens, government, media and culture. Not only within a class room or small group of people but locally, nationally, and globally. I myself havnt experianced alot with blogging aside from email, instant messaging and networking websites, but I am looking forward to creating my own blog.
