Okay, I have a „blog“. So what?
This summer semester the university offers a course about “The Impact of Internet on American Society”. One of the course requirements was to create one’s own blog. That’s what I did. -But only because of this requirement!
I never have thought of doing so before. When this all started with blogs and so on a friend of mine was really fond of those blogs (and still is I think). She always read the diaries of other people and eventually created her own cyberspace. So far I absolutely don’t share her ardour. What is so interesting about reading the diaries of others? My own life is exciting enough. Their privacy shall remain theirs. So at first I basically don’t understand why people feel the need to read a blog and second why they write blogs. I mean why do those people think somebody would feel interested in their boring life?
But I don’t know much about blogs yet. At the moment I would call them only the “voluntary” spam of the internet. The only difference is that blogs are not sent coincidentally to whoever the receiver may be. People even go voluntarily on them.
I am very sceptical about those blogs at the moment. We will see if this changes during the course of the … course.
But as a “sign of good will” I even took the lecture about “blogs” and their impact on society which is already in 2 weeks.
My progresses on that issue will be posted here then.
But since this everybody-creates-his-own-blog-project is an experiment I am also keen to know if it will work out. I have thought of one “danger”: For those who in preparation for their lectures at the beginning of the courses have acquired a thorough knowledge of their topic it will be difficult to maintain a visible progress in their blog-postings about the same topic afterwards.
Well, anyway, I will try to keep my blog up to date and to get to know more about the advantages and disadvantages of what I still regard as “strange” :)