Examples of blogs/ Student blog review

Blogs come in many forms, not just the written (or typed word) on a computer.

Moblogs come from a cell phone, we no longer need to be at a computer to comment on any blog cite we wish

Photoblogs: cites where people can post their photos and comment on their work/ example http://stuegan.shutterchance.com/about.php The RIP

Videoblogs are becoming very common, a good example is UTube where you can find commentary on just about every issue going. Since Sarah Palin was a target for many blogs, a Utube video blog can take the message further than a few comments in script http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irklZ-iZjhI

Audio Blogs are music files and there are numerous cites like http://www.fluxblog.org
Fluxblog : the very first MP3 Blog. You will find full discussion of songs, promotion for artists and, in this case promotion to by the music from the artists, which I found to be good.

Compare 2 Company Blogs:

I decided to look at two news blogs, CBC, Canada & CNN a US network
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/editorsblog/2007/10/welcome_to_the_editors_blog.html

http://edition.cnn.com/exchange/blogs/index.html

My 1st observation was CBC had a fairly long introduction & seemed to spell out “rules”

“We want to be part of this new media world — but we want to be true to the values of public broadcasting and CBC News. It’s exciting to be able to share so much more with you. But to be perfectly honest, we all do tend to be a bunch of control freaks. We believe there are standards and practices we just can’t compromise”

here’s what I found as an introduction to CNN blogs and it identified numerous blog sites for different news programs on CNN

“CNN BLOGS: YOUR SAY
Join the conversation with CNN anchors, correspondents and producers all over the globe “
2nd observation: CBC seemed to have rules, CNN just welcomed you in.

3rd Observation: as I read several of the blogs, the CBC writers tended to be more polite, respectful, certainly direct, but constructive for the most part. CNN blogs did appear different in that they were more vents, showed more emotion & often were soap box rants. They say Canadians are more polite, a brief review of the blogs seemed to support that in many ways.

4th observation: both were easy to use, both seemed to highlight key national and international news, CBC probably spoke about more Americn news that CNN reported on Canadian News.

I see value in news blogs. They keep the converation flowing and force the media to examine all perspectives of a story. I remember in one of my intro Comm course we learned about media news coverage and whether the news was really unbiased. CBC is a public company but CNN isn’t and they could be influenced to cover certain stories if they have an impact on their funders. Blogs will provide a forum to challenge biased views & can keep journalists honest.

Allessandro’s Blog!

Alessandro’s blog is well organized. He provides much information on the issues discussed in class, and thoroughly explained his experiences while using the social networks we were introduced to. He provided good commentary, and it was very interesting to look at his blog as well as other students in the class, to see what they did to personalize their blogs, as well as looking at the insight they provided on the issues dicussed in lecture, and the tasks we were given weekly. He was very honest and genuine in his discussions.