Who Let the Blogs Out?

Blogs dominate the Internet landscape today, and there is an ever present and growing importance to the blogging community. The reason for this, in my mind, is the fact that blogs are so personal. They offer people to place more importance on their opinions and views. Blogs serve as a personal narrative that is not filtered or edited to fit a corporations wishes. That sense of personal spin and control is what has made the blogging revolution take place, not to mention another persons ability to immediately post there own thoughts/comments on the bloggers page.
Blogs helped in this class in that it made for doing the work a lot more accessible, in the sense that Mr. Miller’s blog was constantly available to view. If you got home and forgot the assignment it would be easy to see what the assignment was. This almost “futuristic” way of using the Internet and doing homework mad e the work load a great deal more manageable. The one negative of this tool is that it requires the Internet, which serves as much more of a distraction than it does a tool. It is nearly impossible to log onto the web and not wonder off onto other sites.
While posting here on my blog I most enjoyed being able to write the blog about, well, blogs. I felt through this I was able to assess the importance of the tool, or as I state, weapon, that we as a people have been granted access to. I think I managed to draw contrasts of both the positives and the negatives of the blogging world, and left it for readers to decide what they felt. I am most proud however of the line used in it conclusion by one of my heroes Bill Clinton as he discusses the simple magnificence of the internet. It was a quote that was in so many ways the embodiment of a blog. It was plugging a book, while showing a biasness towards a public offiacl and at the same point was being used to make my case. Genius.
Blogs were an extremely smart tool to use for this class. I would have liked however to have had e-mails sent out by Mr. Miller or the blogspot people informing us when new information was posted on his blog, or when someone else posted on their blog or our own.
On a slightly off topic but in my mind interesting note I wanted to inform you that this will not by any means be my last blog. I have been hired by the organization 18 in ’08 to have my own blog about the ’08 presidential election. This should be fun. Thank god for this class though, otherwise I would be completely new to this whole process.