Blog the World

Blog the World
Max Pascale
Mass communication used to be expensive, infrequent and took a long time. Mass communication used to be only used by high authorities such as governments to spread ideals or communicate war, treaties and politics across the globe. Compared to the very old ways of taking messages from hand to hand to today’s technology is magnanimous. Sending important messages through our cell phones to colleagues and family is something out of a futuristic science fiction. The internet and innovative thinkers have created ways to communicate messages and ideas cheap and efficiently.
The idea of a “blog” is like a club that has an interconnected idea that gets people to critique and relate on important subjects. The blog can be compared to the ancient Greek ways of the forums where the people of a nation would congregate and express opinions in a casual environment, even if the subject matter was political or taboo. The blog is a way for every kind of person to have their opinions heard. “This form of social media lends to an online generation already too busy to keep in touch.”
The blog is a place for people to vent frustration about class. One thing that was absent from the blog was communication between individuals or questions about assignments, which would have been relevant but maybe not appropriate. I expected more pictures and videos in our class blog for the purposes of humor and entertainment, not necessarily for a justified purpose or relevance. However near the end of the class blog there was slack which can be attributed to laziness or concerns with the end of the semester. Also, if we were given fun assignments like posting our Kruger images again there might have been more brainstorming.

The blog at first was a place to put funny quirks about pop-culture or anything that pertained to entertainment. Some people recklessly spew meaningless, angry rants about problems however, which the blogger should be aware of. Not all information in blogs is accurate or even coherent sometimes, which creates another aspect to the blogging world, vigilance. The blog lets the blogger become a social seeker, an adventurer seeking truth and being able to pick out misinformation. This way of knowing what is truth and lies on a blog is a style of reading and staying current with the times that needs to always be kept in context.
Blogs advance writing. Blogs covertly advance ideas about expression and interpretive writings. Blogs advance the ways people think and use vocabulary. Blogs could possibly be the future for academic writing. Although blogs are “laid-back” most of the time this class was a little more rigid on using proper grammar and bringing ideas all together. Blogs with rules and guidelines that follow a linear path can be called “bloghoods”. Blogs have come a long way from origins starting in 1997 started by Jorn Barge Blogs are ways for individuals who are interested in expanding personal knowledge by others commentaries.
The future of academic writing lays in the blogs ability to function as integration between peers. Interaction of personal opinions and writing styles or how each person presents their opinions via grammar, slang, formal vs informal leaves the door open for expanding the readers knowledge. An individual’s worldview may very well be changed overtly or covertly meaning the blog may influence the contributors and readers opinions and personal writings on an influential basis.