Blogs: A Communicative Tool

Blogs are a relatively new tool used to communicate news, ideas, personal experiences, and many other things. They allow information to be provided to the public quickly, thus making them a powerful and influential tool.

Blogging is a great way to reach out to many people quickly. This is great for news; people can be updated on the most recent of events just as they happen. But, television and radio seems to do this well enough. People can see or hear the news on the television or radio and can spread by word of mouth to those who have not yet watched or listened. Besides, to learn about the most recent events through a blog, one must access that blog multiple times a day to learn about the event before they would anyway by television, radio, or word of mouth.

Because anyone can write a blog, they can show extreme bias. News can be inaccurate, or in some cases, untrue.

Amanda Gehres has a blog post where she talks about how an author of a blog uses his blog to share with the world what it is like in Iraq. He talks about the Iraq and its citizens giving information that one can discover only through visiting Iraq. This is a great use for blogs. It allows someone to share what something is like that few have experienced in a way that other media will never cover it.

Another use for blogs is to talk about your life. Tabby wrote a blog about all the things in her life that were creating stress. While she shared what was stressful about her life, she was able to vent by writing about it. People were also able to make comments in support of her.

Blogs allow the less outgoing, such as myself, to become slightly more extroverted. This is due to a sort of sense of anonymity. Readers of my blog may know my name, but they may not know exactly who I am.

A blog can be an incredibly powerful tool. A particular view of something that other media would ignore can be shared. People can share their lives and get the support they need while others can relate to them and realize they're not alone. Blogs also allow some to be more outgoing, which could shape their personality. Writers must know that what they post can be accessed by anyone. Readers must be aware that some blogs could be biased and present misleading information. Blogging has good and bad uses. When used correctly, they can be very beneficial.

Reflection on the Guest Blogging Experiment

Last week, I wrote a blog post for someone else in class and someone wrote a post for my blog. This was the guest blogging Experiment. I don't have many thoughts on it but here goes...

It does feel sort of intrusive because someone is expressing their thoughts or views as you on your blog. But, it was fun trying to guess who wrote what blog. Some people made it obvious while some spent the time to try to speak as the person they were writing for.

Like I said, not many thoughts. I just look at it as another assignment.

The Guest Blogging Experiment

life at OSU has been fun and experimental. She is a freshman at one of the best college in Ohio. She has had some fun times and has had some times that she does not want to ever remember that had happen in her life her at OSU. The times she had that was fun was, like when she would attend the home Basketball games love to cheer on the boys. She also love all the free time that she has. She don’t have to worry about getting told what to do. Meeting allthese new people and making lifelong friends too has also had been fun to her.

The time that she do not want to remember were when she was put on Academic warning. This is because she did not take charge of her life as a college student and she took average of all the free time that she had on her hands did basically did not study at all. Now she see that there is a different from high school and college. High you had people tell you what to do now that you get in college you have to tell yourself that you need to get things together for yourself. She is a freshman at THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NEWARK. This college is so much different from the main campus because it’s much smaller than the main. The classes here are smaller. Meeting different people from all over has been by far the most fun and experimental thing that she has experienced yet. GO BUCKS!!!!!