Once Upon A Blog

A. According to this author where does the word blog come from?

The author states that the word "blog", which is highly used today, had its principles from "weblog or web log", such term started from a Web page called "Robot Wisdom" in which; artificial intelligence, James Joyce, and Judaism as racism were discussed. In 1999, Peter Merholtz separated the word into “We blog”, from which the word blog emerged.

B. Why might the writer object to a book about blogs? What is the difference between a blog and a book?

Acording to the author "Books are tight. Blogs are reckless. Books are slow. Blogs are fast. Books ask you to stay between their covers. Blogs invite you to stray. Books fret over copyright and libel. Blogs grab whatever they want with impunity—news, gossip, pictures, videos." From an unbiased point of view, one might assume that books and blogs are meant to be different. There is no specific preference from my behalf, but a blog is everything that a book is not. Their characteristics are different and vary in the most extensive ways, a book is not a blog and a blog is not a book, they are never meant to be combined. EVER.

C. How have blogs changes recently?

Blogs have evolved to include modern issues and more aggressive points of view. Blogs usually look to give a voice to someone that hopes to be heard, the search for this voice has been the primordial use of blogs since the early periods of creation, nevertheless the use of such voice has evolved and adapted into modern themes of controversy, new ideas and projects or just basic comments on daily life.

D. Why might you read a blog rather than a book, or a magazine, or a newspaper?

Blogs are usually concise, interactive with the reader, attractive, and suggest preference toward something the reader might want to have an opinion on. For example, one might want to have input on a book that cached your eye, blogs can give you the input you are searching for. As well as finding someone with similar ideas as yours that might contribute to your knowledge or point of view towards a situation or object.

D. Is there reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?

Blogs are definitely not objective, they comment and are meant to have an inclination towards one or more parties of a subject. They create conversation and without a certain preference toward a topic, the magic of blogs would be not exist. Blogs tend to have an amateur interpret a piece of information from a grater source or even a collision of such, an amateur is here to give input of some sort (such as I do). Therefore you can be certain that great amount of the information being received will be a basic interpretation and will not be developed by a specialized individual. Nevertheless blogs are entertaining and have personal stories that might help you in your life, and even though they are not very reliable, they are fun and give a spark to the internet.

E. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?

To start I would pick something attractive, and off course, related to the subjects being discussed. I actually have some sort of an amateur blog on which I am asked to post this assignment, I named it iblogg. Basically because I felt it was an attractive name and it gave it a personal touch.

F. Find three blogs that mention our summer reading.

These blogs offer more like a discussion board on the subject:

1. http://www.iyou.me/group/green/forum/topics/ishmael-by-daniel-quinn-free

2. http://martiananthropologist.blogspot.com/2005/08/ishmael-ishmael-discussion-my-ishmael.html

3. http://peakoil.blogspot.com/2005/10/book-review-ishmael-by-daniel-quinn.html