Hw. 14 My Response to Ito

In fact Ito say that his motivation to find time and energy to write these blogs, having done it for so long and having so many businesses competing for his attention is that the comments he gets are very deep and will help his knowledge, he also says that is very important to him that he gets back a lot of feedback. To put it another way Ito refers to his blog almost as a community which I feel is so good. For instance, people can really feel that this blog is for them. Ultimately I feel that it is so good that he thinks his comments are just as important as his posts. As a result, this really shows that his blog is like a community. In the same way, I think it its great that it doesn’t cost so much to become a publisher like it did before. Despite the fact you used to have to go to school and buy the equipment, but now blogs make it painless to become a publisher. Ultimately in m opinion this is why blogs are so popular, you could be anyone and still have a blog. Along the same lines, I think the creative commons idea is really good. Consequently this makes is so much easier for people to borrow other peoples work. For instance, if you have the creative commons attached your work than you already have permission to use it. As a result, this saves both ends a lot of time. In addition, I think Ito touches on a great point when he talks about how the fun in professional journalism is going away because you are being influence to say the right thing or what your boss is telling you to write about. Naturally, I strongly feel that this is why blogging is so popular. Granted that you’re not being paid, you can talk about whatever you want. As a result this is what makes blogging so fun.

Hw.13 Blogging Helps the Business World

In my opinion I think the impact of blogging for business is way more important than the impact of blogging on communication that is not business. In Burnstein and Klines reading there are many examples of how blogging helps businesses find things out about their workers, and put information about their companies out there for people to see. An example of is one of Google’s employers mark Jen blogged about his first days at the company. He started blogging about information that he should have not been. He got fired two weeks later. This helped Google get rid of a bad employee. Another example is that companies can set up videos and editorials on what they are all about. GM uses blogs as well to get past the main stream media. Steve Rubal who works for CooperKatz & co is one who pushes people into the blogging world. He jumped in one day and it really took off great for his company. “I became a living guinea pig for what I preach” Rubal says. These are many examples of how blogging helps the impact for business.

Hw. 11 . Iaasc Mao's blog at Isaacmao.com/meta.

I picked the Isaacmao.com/meta blog to research on. I picked this one because in the reading MacKinnon said that it was the only blog that was written in English and in Chinese. This made me feel that they were encouraging Americans to read this blog. From what I can see most of the blogs were about computer problems, environment and the Chinese culture. There were also pictures on this blog as well. Mackinnon states on pg 328 of Kline and Burnstein that many people have gone to jail for things they say on websites. This makes it very difficult for Chinese bloggers to just feel free and say what they want. I think that is a major difference in our culture compared to the Chinese culture, considering we have so much freedom in the United States. Mackinnon also states that a lot of journalists in china are starting to look at blogs first to get their stories. A lot of journalist in the United States do this as well.

Hw.9 Interview with Ayelet Waldman

While reading a Weblog Saved my Life Last Night, I agreed and disagreed with many things this interview states. I do indeed agree that it is a great way for women to meet other women. Waldman states that it is a great way for women to be involved in a social community especially for women who are not working. Waldman is surely right about women needing to interact with other women because, as she might not be aware, recent studies have shown women need other women in their life. I agree that you are more likely to avoid men if you go places that men would avoid. In rare cases men could always pretend to be women but I think this is the most promising way to avoid men. If she was such a popular mommy blogger I don’t think that she should have stopped. It sounds like so many people loved her blogs. I do disagree on this. I think she should have continued. I think that she could have defiantly kept blogging even though it seemed as if she was writing a novel. This is the point of blogging, your free to write whatever you want. I agree that Waldman having the suicide incident was a pretty good reason to stop, but just think if she wasn’t blogging who knows what would have happened. This proves that blogs are such great ways to express your feelings.

Hw 5b. Get the main stream meadia out of here!

In David Kline’s I Blog, therefore I am, I acknowledge one of the paragraphs that states that it would be a mistake to get rid of the mainstream media at this point. It states that they have some of the best equipment, skills, access, and the credibility to carry out the information than any other source. Even just, the media cannot even come close to competing with the bloggers diversity and originality. It reports that it is still mainly the media that relays most of the information to our world. I strongly reject what this paragraph is pleading. Just because the main media has all this equipment to relay information, why bother reporting it if it’s false. Why bother watching/reading it? As one of the people being lied to, I strongly suggest that we end this by not giving into watching or listening to them. Once again I urge that we do get rid of the mainstream media as soon as we can.


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Hw.4 Febreze

“Rinse your way to a healthier mouth”
Common sense seems to dictate that Listerine mouth wash will give you good breath and kill bacteria, and germ. I also think that Listerine would promise you a clean white vibrant smile. I went on the site www.listerine.com and Listerine does indeed promise that it can fight plaque and gingivitis. Listerine also promises to give you a cleaner, healthier mouth, and will fight plaque and gingivitis germs for a full 24 hours. Listerine also states that no other mouth wash comes from a formula of 4 essential oils that kill millions of germs on contact. Listerine says that they are the most popular mouth wash. In my experience Listerine has delivered their promise. I have been using Listerine mouth wash for a while now and I haven’t yet had a cavity. My teeth seem to be staying pretty white and so far no one has complained about my bad breath.

Hw. 3 A more participatory democracy

In Toward a more participatory democracy by David Kline he states how the world is being taken over by false media advertisements. He tells us how CNN and other news broadcasters take stories that are barley even stories. They are bias and just plain wrong. Most of the world doesn’t even believe what they hear on the news anymore. This is where blogging comes in. for example before the 2004 presidential election blogging completely wiped out the media. No one believes the news anymore. They lie. If it wasn’t for blogs people would very rarely get the correct information. Kline explains that people are getting down rite frustrated that they can’t just get the truth. CNN even brought in a comedian as if it wasn’t already a big enough joke. Although we are still not sure blogging is the right way to go. Kline says that he doesn’t see many bloggers respecting one another, more or less trying to destroy each other.

Hw. 2 Bloggers will continue to grow.

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The number of bloggers will continue to grow because it is a great way for people to express their feeling. For people blogging is a way that they can post, interact, respond or even argue a certain topic. It is a need for people to let out how they feel or to express a topic you would like to discuss with many people. This key idea connects with an issue of my own. Many people could argue the topic of cheerleading being or not being a sport. I haven’t blogged about this topic yet but this would be great way to start blogging for me. This is a topic that many people agree and disagree about, and me being a cheerleader myself this topic always strikes a nerve with me. I know many cheerleaders are dying to get their hands on this topic and argue it to death. I know I would. This would be a great way to finally have our voices heard.