M Blog

The blog I chose to talk about is called “RConversation” .  It is basically is a political blog and talks about issues in our world today.  A lot of the columns are about China and Asia related issues.  I think this blog looks kind of boring, although it is very interesting. It is mostly text down the middle, and on the side there are smaller pictures of articles. Also at the end there are some YouTube videos.  The colors are very bland just your regular black, white and red for the most part. It wasn’t really fancy, it just made it’s point and said what it has to say and that’s about it. Rebecca MacKinnon blogs on this page a lot along with other bloggers such as, Michael Geist and Paul Kane. The style of writing is very easy to understand, mostly blogging and open talk, but some of them are more “newspaper” style and like an actually newspaper article. The majority of blogs on the page are political blogs about different issues going on in our world. I kind of believe that the blog itself agrees with what MacKinnon said it would be like in the book. She basically said she quit her job as a news reporter to blog and that she wanted to report her own news on the issues in Asia and places she was familiar with, yet they wouldn’t let her. So instead, like she wanted to she started a blog where she could do exactly that. I think this is true, because many of the blogs on the site are in fact about issues in different places in Asia, etc.  Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion that MacKinnon didn’t explain her blog in the book, “Making Global Voice Heard”, exactly the way it is laid out on the internet.