Thing 4 Read to Blog, Blog to read

The genre of blog writing is open, inquisitive, and informing. In general, it generates a lot of thinking, learning, and ideas from reading other people’s view points on our evolving world. Reading a blog is similar to reading someone’s open reflections on an article, or from a journal. It is a mixture of their opinions with other shared viewpoints, from media, videos, podcasts, articles, etc. Some blogs are very informative, and may be compared to readings from scholastic journals, and news articles.

Writing may be looked at in a similar fashion. Writing may be primarily from an authors standpoint, utilizing the “I” throughout his or her blog, presenting their view on a topic. In other blogs, we may see the use of I less, and witness informative sharing with an integration of both an authors view, and reliance on outside sources through links.

It is clear that most blogs are not edited, which gives them a genuine appearance to readers, as long as they are understandable to audiences.

When we read an article, book, or magazine, we are entering a conversation with the author. Commenting on blogs makes this conversation a two-way venue. I think it is a really neat idea, and also a way to deliver information instantly. When one may have these conversations with the author, more ideas are developed and shared.

Blogging is a way for us to contribute our ideas without the worry of editing and publishing. We can express ourselves in our blogs how we choose, allowing other people to enter into our conversations, and share ideas.

When we enter into these conversations, we enable ourselves to learning through the experience of having these discussions with others. There are also those who will agree with an idea, or disagree. But when we share our viewpoints, and ideas on topics, it opens us to searching for more answers to our questions. It allows us to be inquisitive, and encourages further learning. The first blog experience for me took me through links from the blogs, and videos on some things I have not thought about with technology, and what type of access it grants us. In pursuing the exploration of blogging, one finds a very interesting array of ideas.