Category: Personal

Back to blogging?

I have been a bad blogger lately. Somehow it’s too easy to put a link in my “to blog” folder and too difficult to actually write a post. With more than a dozen stories to blog on “someday,” and so few posts in recent months, it is time for a new personal blogging model. Add in that the fact that my dissertation is finally moving forward, and it’s certainly time for me to write more!

So here’s a re-commitment to blogging–even if it’s just posting a link and a brief, ill-formed thought <grin>.

The New Web: You have to participate

This story (Students offer Net advice to colleges) as well as the video “aside” below get right at the reason why I blog: to experience the new web, you have to be a part of it. More than that, to be considered an expert in Mass Communication (technology), I would argue that one has to be blogging, uploading videos, and be a part of online communities. Naturally, there has to be moments to step back and reflect (hence this post category), but as the web becomes more experiential an expert has to participate in this social creation of the Net.

CNet summarized the students’ sentiment well:

Despite the fears that kids are leaving permanent digital footprints when they post personal information online, college students think it would be even weirder if someone didn’t exist on the Web.