Alrighty, so last week i missed out on the lecture thanks to my frustrating cough and the resulting lack of sleep causeing me to sleep in!
I managed to make it to the seminar and the thing that realy sparks my interest is not the political blog *yawn* (if i want to be entertained by american politics ill watch FOX news) but instead the idea of corporate blogs as Byron said on his blog i too wouldnt mind being asked to write a blog for money. Infact it seems enevitable that i will be as my career of choice is to go into PR (think "thank you for smoking" but a little less controversial") Anyways as i was saying because this area interests me i thought i would google some PR blogs and what a gold mine of information! there are even blogs dedicated to listing the blogs of PR companies worldwide. I know this may not be exciting to some but for someone trying to break into an industry that is largely about networking and who you know, not what you know its a well needed starting point!
In saying that I should probably be practising blogging in more formal way rather than a stream of consciousness but its late so i wont start tonight.
The second reading as those of you who have read it know looks at credibility perceptions of web blogs amoung blog users and it made me think about what i think about blogs as a news source.
Before this course i would had said they were not credible, actually before this course i had never looked twice at blogs as i associated them only with people spilling out what i deemed to be useless info of their day to day lives.
To some extent i still feel a little sceptical over whether i would fully trust a blog as a credible source of information as they are still highly personalised (e.g me metioning my cough) but on the other hand i have found this blog helpful and while doing recent research on miliblogs (blogs of soldiers in combat) if found they allow you to explore avenues of issues they are for the most part left out of mainstream media.
I wish i could then go on to say that this meant I now had the ability to open my eyes to all aspects of an issue but i have to admit that I only really look at these alternative outlets that are either reccomended by a lecturer or share the same views as i do on that topic. There is little to no chance I would read a blog written by Bush on the success of their presense in Iraq nor one that tries to explain that the whalers really are doing it for important scientific research.
It just isnt really in our nature to sit on the fence on every issue and the beauty of blogs and other online platforms is that if we dont like what we are reading we can simply click out and move on to the next one.
could this be the one downside to blogging; that it lowers our tolerance of other peoples opinions?
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