Week 1
This first blog post finds me wondering what I learned in class all week. I remember talking about tumblr, the resurgence in the popularity of podcasts, how to write for blogs, and how bloggers are sometimes super bad ass and expose public figures for the bastards they really are. As I'm writing this, my roommate asks me, "What even is blogging? I hate that word, 'blog.'" To which I say, "Right, what even is blogging?" back at him. I looked it up, and, yet, it's still pretty loose in my mind, because what about Reddit and Wikileaks? When I started thinking about the discussion we had about those bloggers who exposed Dan Rather I immediately thought of the driven, info-maniacs behind Wikileaks and similar actors on the internet. This would seem to be unlike blogging, yet, I'm sure there are certain posters who do so on a regular basis to a sharing site of some sort. Is this a blog? Maybe not, but still interesting as far as internet vi...