Blog-on

Poynter is a journalim school in America. The site hosts a long list of published papers on blogging. I have trawled through a few of them and opened my mind to blogging.

I have learnt a few general facts including, people continue to access traditional media sites to find news. Blogs are however attracting enormous attention and their popularity and influence is starting to measurable.

A December 2006 post on the Poynter site by Steve Outing, refers to a New York Magazine article that shows "just how mainstream blogging is becoming", and suggests that the hottest blog topic is politics. It's a quick easy read and quite interesting. Click here, if you'd like to check it out.

Blogging on Blogging

I am a student of journalism at UTS, enrolled in the subject 'Online Journalism' (OJ1). The purpose of my blog is to fulfill the requirements of an OJ1 assignment; to create a blog and post entries on topics to be decided by the lecturer. Students are being notified of topics via email over a number of weeks.

The first topic is political blogging.

During my search, I have found countless examples of unintelligible crap and it seems that I've embarked on a tedious exercise. So far all I have done is to gather evidence supporting my prejudiced view that blogging is unreliable opinion floating around in a virtual ethical vacuum. A friend then directed me to the Poynter site.