Peter Luc

Response to: "What is a blog?" - By Tim Jarrett

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

A blog can just be about anything you want it to be, from your daily lives to what you feel about something. Anyone can create a blog and start blogging right away or even read what people have blogged about, "Whether 12-year-old confused adolescents, 24-year-old software programmers in cubicle farms, 30-year-old Iraqi translators in Baghdad reporting from inside a war or sixty-year-old grandmothers with a passion for presidential politics-who might never have written anything before to be read around the world." - Tim Jarrett. This shows that you can blog about anything you want and you don't have to worry about what others think. Jarrett thinks that blogging is a limited empowerment that presupposes a level of access and literacy that are by themselves pretty empowering.

To me, a website is different from a blog because websites don't usually archive the things that they put on their site, but on a blog like blogger, they archive all the entries that you have ever posted from the first post to the last so that people can go back and read what you have blogged about in the past, not just recent posts. A lot of people use blogs to tell others what is going on in the world like what they see with their own experiences. This can replace the sites that people usually go to to check the daily news.

Blogging has to do with relationships when you make it a personal blog. A personal blog to me can be like 2 people blogging about what they do in a day and the 2 people can share their day with each other. It's kind of like when you pass notes during class to different people, but instead this is web based so you won't get caught. :)