The world of blogging is something completely new to me and I was unaware of the visible presence online of blogs.
I knew they existed but I was unaware how big it now was on the net and the millions of different blogs that are accessible to make comments on and make your own posts.
I think its clear that now everyone can have their own opinions on topics and this is an avenue where individuals can create a community and discussion with fellow members. It really keeps everyone in the loop if you can join a good blog as the power of people will result in a mass variety of quality blogs.
I found this link pretty cool.
http://mashable.com/2011/04/11/blog-discovery/
This is an article that was released that indicated the top 10 ways of finding a blog. They range from more recent discoveries such as alltop where you can search and do advanced searches on blogs all around the globe. Its amazing the tools that now exist that we can search and find exactly the post that we would like to find.
Another interesting addition was Paper.li, which is a web based newspaper. The difference is here it searches and displays all the interesting news posts made around the world from twitter and facebook and the trending news items. If you have friends on sharing blogs you will find that they will come up on this website, i found this pretty innovative way of keeping up with the news. Not just the mainstream views but the views on many bloggers and users of social media, a way of segmenting the newspaper content being covered around the globe.
As technology continues to improve I believe that the ways blogging will be used will continue to evolve. Many of the technology is out there, and you are starting to see social media filtering into mainstream media through TV the question is what is the best way moving forward ? I believe a presence needs to be continued to improve in a way that doesn’t distract those users who want to see media without views of the world while incorporating that feature to users.
I found this interesting Video on Youtube, about a discussion around blogging
In conclusion, I believe that technology will enable blogging and social media to continue to evolve as peoples views and thoughts will be more widely discussed and generate furthur discussions.
Goodluck everyone over the semester :)
