Blogs

A.According to this author where does the word blog come from?
According to the author of this article the world blog was created some years ago. At first, in 1997 John Berger designed a web site in which he wrote all his thoughts and this site was called “Weblog”. After this occurred, in 1999 Peter Merholz, decided to separate the word and came up with two words-“We blog” This is how the word blog was created.

B.Why might the writer object to a book about blogs? What is the difference between a blog and a book?
¬The author of this article was planning to write a book or anthology of blogs. His plan was not accomplished since he realized that books and blogs are very different. Books are very tight and constricted while in blogs writing gives more freedom of expression and it does not have rules. In blogs you write whatever you like or what you feel. Blogs are very fast to read while books are slow, longer and require more of your time. Most of the time books inform you of situations, but blogs are mostly to write your thoughts and reviews and to deviate from the right limits. In effect to all this reasons and dissimilarities, the writer states that writing a book about blogs would not work.
“Making a book out of bloggy material, if it could be done at all, would kill it, wouldn't it?”-states the writer.

C.How have blogs changed recently?
Throughout time, blogs had changed a lot. Before blogs were not so accessible but now they are. In present days blogs have become much more popular and cover more information since technology and ideas have advanced. Now there are blogs about almost everything-e.g. gossip, sports, books, and other topics.


D. Why might you read a blog rather than a book, or a magazine, or a newspaper?
Blogs are very different from books, magazines, and newspapers for many reasons. People may prefer to read a blog rather than this other sources for many reasons. First of all, blogs make readers understand information in an easier way since they are clearer and sometimes may be more concise. In difference with books, magazines, and newspapers, blogs contain links that take you to other pages and more information by just clicking on a button. Also, blogs are written in an entertaining form that sometimes lacks of punctuation and uses emoticons and abbreviations- E.g. idk (I don´t know),  (happy faces), and others…

E. Is there a reason to doubt the objectivity of a blog? Why? Why not?
There may be a possibility to doubt the objectivity of a blog depending on the person that writes the articles since the person may have a biased opinion. Since a blog is a space in which everyone can submit their thoughts, the information may sometimes be too preferential to a certain group or idea. In the world there is a huge amount of blogs since blogs are open to anyone who is willing to create one. This leads to the possibility that many of the information you find in blogs may not be reliable.


F. If you kept your own blog, what would you title it?
I already created my own blog and I decided to name it “Capture a Memory…Don´t Forget” I decided to name my blog like this since in this blog I will write many reviews and thoughts that will capture a/many memories and thoughts about the books I read and what I like about them. This is like a reading log which will record a lot of ideas that will help me, as well as others, to remember about various literature pieces and to not forget.


G. Find three blogs that mention our summer reading.
For summer reading the pre-AP 9th grade class was assigned the reading of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Three interesting blogs that I found for this book were:
http://www.beyond-ishmael.com/members/beyondishmael
http://www.ishmael.com/welcome.cfm
http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2009/04/ishmael-by-daniel-quinn.html