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 In addition to reading Joi Ito’s interview called, “Japanese Blogger Champions Internet Democracy” I learned a lot more about blogs and how bloggers think about them. For instance, Joi Ito was asked basically why he blogs, and what his blog serves for people he responded saying, “My blog serves a couple of different functions. I write about anything of interest” (Ito, 144). Despite the fact that he is a very successful man and has done great things in the blog world, he still likes to blog for fun and talk about whatever he wants, this definitely interested me and shocked me as well. To put it bluntly, Ito doesn’t care about his success on some of his blogs, he would just rather blog about whatever, and have people respond and talk in “a community”. Also he thinks that the internet is going to be opened up to many other options because of this, which I agree with, but he also believes that people, are going to think of more ways to criticize the internet and blogs. For example, Ito claims. “On the one hand, there will be people who say that we must keep it open, but I can easily imagine that there will be arguments soon, if there aren’t already, that the Internet assists terrorism and assists pirates and is just a bad thing” (Ito, 147). Nonetheless, people can think what they want but I agree 100% with Joi Ito that blogging is a great thing and that the internet is also a great thing and basically that blogging for fun is something everyone should learn to do and get the hang of. Furthermore, after reading this interview I got a better understanding about the blogging world.