2.1 Blogging

Web 2.0 think about how I am engaging and is it something I would like to write about.

I will focus my essay on blogs as it is something I want to understand and get a fuller picture of.

There are a few other elements to blogging that should also be noted:

RSS Feeds - Most blogs offer an RSS feed so that content can be aggregated and read without requiring the reader to visit every blog in which they are interested.

I bought an app on 10/04/2012 love it, it's simple to use and has all the blogs I have subscribed to and all their latest entries and earlier ones too.

Comments - Often (though not always) there is a facility on a blog for visitors to add comments. This tends to contribute to the 'conversational' nature of many blogs.

Blogrolls - A blogroll is a list on a blog that links to other blogs that are frequented by the author. It serves to position the blog within a network, rather than as a lone voice.

Permalinks - (Permanent links) are a way of linking to a specific blog post after it has passed from the front page of a blog. Usually, each individual entry on a blog has a permalink.

Very interesting!
Activity;
Discussion -
The early days of blogging were extremely optimistic about the potential of blogs to give everyone who wanted one a voice and a venue to publish.  Now that blogging is over a decade old, to what extent have these early predictions come true?  Rebecca blood's prediction on blogging.


Posted 10/04/2012  

We have adapted and advanced with blogging with great ease, technology is making it even easier to do so with apps that allow you to download images from your favourite blogs or fb pages and collate your own ideologies and intersts to create your own slant on all the amazing ans talented people out there.
Relationships between blogs and media.
Twitter is constantly being referred to in morning news platforms and on radio, evening news uses footage from independent blogs as well. Bloggers are given front row seating to fashion shows alongside some of the ost influential fashion magazines, I think they have reached a level playing field in media as most newspapers have a blogger as well, NYTimes eg.
Blogging on the mainstream press is allowing input fro, the masses, feedback, insight, the 3 pigs is a great eg. Of how the influence of many is stringer than the few. Again writing this on iPad.
Citizen journalist - whatever the hype if the news or the lack of progress on a subject, a logger and the people who read and link to their blog will take it places fruther than a news report as it has this longer, persistent presence.



Rettberg talks about blogs facilitating ‘distributed conversations’ and even ‘distributed communities’; what do you understand these terms to mean? 
posted on the 10/05/2012


Distributed conversation  through blogging we get to have our conversations across a time lag with many people being able to contribute  not based on whether they were in the room with the people at that point in time.  It has relays through may channels to get a wider scope of interaction and reflection.  The opportunity I think for a more I depth discussion.    This covers both as this means I could continue this discussion with people who are out of my normal network, people who with different perspectives can be gained without influence to knowing me personally.
Sorry I'm ding this on an iPad and it isn't letting me go back and correct my misspells.  Argh.
A.  This generally leads to silence if I don't feel to contribute.
B. I have more of a connection with some people as life is busy and to meet for coffee isn't a logistic I can master but to keep updated with their glide and then when I do catch up I am totally up to date with what has been going on, or usually discuss something. More in depth that I didn't think was appropriate on line.
C. I will research facebooks ownership license more as this puts away the whole deal about the timeline editing that everyone was doing before it went live?  Also I love how she put into words how much we are willing to let go of for the beef it's are far greater, I think as we go n will we became more transparent and will this concern of what will come back to us fro our posting will it really be of consequence fir we knew the deal when we wrote it. 



Activity:
Blog and RSS feeds - I bought Feedler and have subscribed to Fashion and design Blogs and then internet and technology news updates and I have been reading as much as I can in each of those each week.  In total I have subscribed to 10 blogs..

Blogs and Facebook: participating in these kinds of auto tracking social networks means giving up a large portion of our privacy, something that we seems to be more and more complacent o doing.  Perhaps it is because the return is so great: a stronger sense of belonging to a community, of belonging to a group of people who not only see who we are but who cares about us as well.
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge

Through the annual study Technorati has formed this composition of the makeup who uses the blogosphere are 61% Hobbyist, considered the backbone of blogs, 13% Professional part-timers and 5% Professional FT, who use blogging to supplement their income focus on personal musings and technology, 8% Corporates - these use corporate and usual talk about the company they work for, 13% Entrepreneurs - use blogging as their sole income and usual talk about the business they are in or technology. Technorati (2011,1).

Readings:
Rettberg, J., (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Polity Press; Cambridge. [Available via Curtin Library's eReserve.]

Rebecca’s Pocket:
https://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_group=courses&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Fcontent%2Ffile%3Fcmd%3Dview%26content_id%3D_2100499_1%26course_id%3D_35129_1%26framesetWrapped%3Dtrue