My journey with blogs

I choose to blog when I first discovered about blogs a year back. A little late but my inspiration was my tutor who had his own blogs about his little travel adventures across Asia. It was mind-blowing. Especially for a girl like me who cannot live but with writing.

I have been writing diaries since young and blogging changed all that. The difference was nobody could read my diary and I did not want anyone to read as well but when it comes to blogging I wanted an audience.

I wanted people to read my opinions, and the whole structure of writing changed. I discovered that blogging goes beyond just personal encounters. I would use blog as a publishing platform to channel ideas to the public, to a group of selected audience. Taking up this project would broaden my view and allow me to think more critically in terms of media and communication and other life issues that affect me and my community.

I took an interest to video blogging and pod casting, a medium I am planning to venture into to project my ideas to the world. I searched for various news channels online and explored how they made use of the blogging evolution in their site.It was an eye-opener that is going to affect the way I view and gather news in the future.

The concepts of Given and New by Kress is evident in this medium, where the given news is presented in a new way, Blogs. Each news site has journalist hosting their own blogs and there are even a section dedicated to blogs. The design strategies discussed by Shriver and Parker can be mapped onto web blogging techniques. E.g. The use of space, scanability in terms of title categorization of blog entries, reference in terms of links and so on.

I am really glad that I took up this course work and that one of the projects is on web blogging. The depth of things to learn are so much. What I have done through this assignment is to ride on the surface but it is definitely not stopping here.

Read on.