Saturday, January 7, 2012

P1: Creating a Blog

This is the first blog that I've ever created and I was surprised at how easy it was. Setting up this blog was simple because I already had a Google account so it only took me a few steps to set it all up. It was somewhat similar to Facebook in that you add your personal information and maybe a picture but I think blogging is a separate element of social networking that is more substantive. There really were no problems to resolve but I think that if I did Blogger has set everything simple enough and easy to use so that I could find a solution.

The Internet has been made more accessible to those without expert knowledge through social networking, blogging, and even YouTube. I think the Internet has made it incredibly easy to publish information, an action otherwise reserved for professionals, and blogging is one example of this. It's almost incredible to think that we take this amount of information for granted when there are people without Internet access that face serious problems around the world.

I think that blogging is a form of writing that is so unlimited. Blogs can be on any subject you choose, in any format and can be viewed by people of your choice. It's a structured environment for publishing your material but also allows options to fit how comfortable you are with people reading it or what subjects suits you the best. I'm not sure if my opinion of blogging has changed since creating my own blog but I am curious to see what I think by the end of the quarter after extensively using my own. 

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