Thursday, February 7, 2008

What is a blog questions

Questions
A. What is the difference between a blog and a book?
B. How have blogs changes recently?
C. Why might you read a blog?
D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?

Answers
A. There are many differences that we can fing among books and blogs. Besides the fact that blogs are found only online while books are printed, both of this sources possess unique characteristics that differientate them from each other. For instance books contain complete narratives wich flow and usually are written from a single author, they also use correct grammar and vocaulary as well as focusing on a single subject. On the other hand blogs are made up of entries and comments that are posted online. They can either talk about politics, science, society, gossip, sex or news for naming a few, but what is so peculiar about blogs is that people have the opportunity of learning from different perspectives since users have the possibility of discussing, commenting and stating their personal opinion, in other word blogs are interactive. Apart from being able to write about a wide range of subject, blogs allow post to be disorganized, badly punctuated, use emoticons and abbreviations. Additionally blogs may contain graphics, sidebars, pictures or videos. Thus we can conclude that there are various differences between books and blogs.
B. Way back in the early 1980s newspapers, diaries and magazines began to be published on line, thus giving a begining to what we now call a blog. It wasnt until 1998 that it began gaining popularity when being used as a place to record links, were instead of placing commentary, "Blood notes" were used to give a fraction of information on the site. It was in 1999 when the system developed, more tools and settings for its use, therefore it caused an increase in its recognition and popularity. As the number of blog users increased, it began to be used as an interactive site in which discussions were held about various topics, in which videos, photos and grphics could be added. It was later on that the name Weblog was addapted to We Blog and finally addapting its current name: blog. Blogs have gained so much accepatance that it is estimated that there are more than 100 million blogs world wide. Therfore we can clearly see that the use of blogs have evolved drastically over time, both refering to the way it is used, its purposes and how it is called.
C. I personally would use a blog in order to learn about various topics and about a variaty of opinions on different subjects. I would also like to interact in discussions as well as begin my personal entries that focused on my entries and observe how people would react to them
D. Blogs are entries in which people have the opportunity to discuss and share there opinion with out having to back it up. They can place any information they desire to and can omit anything they want. Therfore most of the information or opinions placed on blogs arent necesarily true. As a result you should always judge the objectivity of a blog.
E. If I kept my own blog I would title it according to the subject I would focus on. For instance if the blog would talk about a specific movie, I would name it after it, like on this blog whichs subject is assignments for Pre-AP English, it is called Pre-AP English.

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