I am currently writing an essay on the act of blogging. There are a million blogs out there, many of them completely self-referential (including mine) and others that really do provide food for thought. Blogging, however, has become increasingly banal.
Remember a time when we used to read blogs and be amazed at how much we learn't about the blogger and all the new things that they experienced. Now, however, with social networking sites, instant messaging and entire biographies mapped out through the virtual world: this act of knowing someone or their view of things has become so commonplace that the act of blogging is increasingly seen as 'ordinary' rather that something that commands our 'awe.'
So where is blogging heading: a downward spiral into oblivion or is still a case and point for citizen journalism?
Remember a time when we used to read blogs and be amazed at how much we learn't about the blogger and all the new things that they experienced. Now, however, with social networking sites, instant messaging and entire biographies mapped out through the virtual world: this act of knowing someone or their view of things has become so commonplace that the act of blogging is increasingly seen as 'ordinary' rather that something that commands our 'awe.'
So where is blogging heading: a downward spiral into oblivion or is still a case and point for citizen journalism?
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Great work.
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