A Blog for your thoughts?

One of my favorite ones was the one titled "I Don't Really Want to Go into Personal Things in This Blog": Risking Connection through Blogging. This one was interesting because he understood that to get in touch with people he had to get a little personal. This actually made a connection with me due to the fact his original goal was not to get connected with people he didn’t know. I liked it because while we use facebook or myspace there is a certain amount of give and take required and the writer and the reader have a deeper understanding of blogs. We as writers and as blog users have to decide what we have to give to our audience, even if it is just a tiny nugget of truth so that we may better understand someone else when we take information from them. I was the same way when I began to use a blog, but after awhile I just had to tell a little bit more about myself and soon I had more and more contacts on the blog. Also this concept is actually applied to real world situations if you really think about it. We got closer to people by opening up and telling them something about ourselves. We might and try to keep to ourselves all the time but honestly you would not make any connections with people at all. What I also liked about this was that the teacher was told by one of his students to loosen up. This in turn shows that even though teachers do not know everything about everyone, they too have to give and take.

Another one of the ‘blogging tales’ I liked was the one called, Blogging from the Bottom: A Cautionary Tale. The reason I liked this…I really don’t know why. I guess I liked it because it showed the good and the bad of blogging. That we have the power to post and yet we have the spear to delete it if it does not fit within our standards or if it questions our authority as the article says ‘dictators’. Another reason I liked it was because I actually never really thought about it that much, the idea that we are leaders of our own blogs. I have never really thought about it that way before, I always thought of it as more of a communal thing. We all put in, the good and the bad and we all take out whatever is sowed.

For some weird reason I don’t know why but I liked the anecdote called The Bane of the President's Existence. I found it funny in the beginning yet I found it more and more interesting as I read it. I liked how he started off his blog with an anecdote about him being the bane of the president. Then I liked how he linked that to his other main ideas which were blogging as an instructional tool to grading a blog to blogging spam. I have actually seen a few blogs that said “This person is the bane of my life because………so they suck!” and sometimes around these lines. I have seen people slam other people on a blog and made sure everyone reads it, whether it is a disagreement between friends, a family member or some random person you met on the street.