Summary of Blogging

When I first started this project I wasn't quite sure how I would respond to it. Over time I started finding this was less of a "project" and more a learning experience. Before the project I have never even looked at a blog. I really didn't understand the blogoshere. I now know there are many types of blogs that people can write. A person could use a blog to promote their business or write a vanity blog to catalog events in their own lives. Armatures and professionals alike can enjoy writing blogs.

I believe this project really helped me understand journalism. Everybody has to start somewhere. Reading and writing blogs can help to perfect ones journalism skills. Before this project I wasn't sure if journalism was a job that I might want to pursue. Doing this project has given me the confidence to post one of my pieces in an open forum and have other people read my work. I learned a lot about bloggers. I learned they come from all walks of life and are not just journalists. Anybody can blog and that is what I find most fascinating about bloggers.

I feel this assignment is extremely worth while. Instead of just analyzing pieces of media, we had the opportunity to analyze a piece of media and then create or own media. Posting our blogs on a public forum made the project hit closer to home. It was interesting to see my classmates views on the same topics and see what interesting blogs they came into contact with. With the wide reaching world wide web it is almost impossible for us to respond on the same blogs. We all have our own interests. I feel there is a blog out there for everybody to enjoy. Without an editor to hold back a blogger the possibilities for blogs are endless.

At the conclusion of this project I stand by my thesis. I rate my statement as a 5. I strongly believe that blooging will have some sort of impact on journalism. Blogs are an interesting form of media. Anybody with a computer can write a blog. Over time I feel that blogs may effect magazine and newspaper sales because free lance may begin to start ezines and blogs on the web. It will be interesting to see what happens in the future.