Into the Blogosphere Notes

Summary:

• This article started out with the author Graham Lampa stating the information that he gathered from a survey. From the survey he was able to show that about almost 1.1 million blogs were posted once and were popular, but the rest were not in a way. Basically kind of like saying the “One-Hit-Wonder”, but replace the word “hit” with the word “blog”. Lampa later showed that this article is about what “Blogosphere” is. Blogosphere to summarize it up is basically a small community where people all over the world can connect with each other and communicate in ways you cannot in real life. To Lampa a blog is just like a diary, but for the public to see. Blogging is also known as journalism for the amateurs for the small portion of bloggers. Bloggers are free to post as they choose to, but because the world is built with limited on resources and unlimited wants (economic reference), not everyone can blog. For example, some may not be able to blog because they do not have a computer or internet. Lack of internet across the world is the reason why many blogs are not doing as well globally as it should’ve been.

Commentary:

• I thought this was interesting, because from Graham Lampa’s point of view, he said it is like a small diary for the public. That was my first thought when I made a blog too. The blog is just like social media, but targeted more towards reading than actually examining a picture with a small caption to it. It is something I expect to not be big in this generation though because social media is for some reason bigger than blogging. Probably because this generation doesn’t like to read as much and like to look at visuals more. Another reason that Lampa brought up which was a good point was when he said it is not popular because not everybody can access it. For me I thought this was true, despite me having internet, not everywhere I go provides internet or where I can access a computer to start up a blog. This makes it difficult to make my blog big when nobody is there to read it. I like it this way though, when I have a blog up, but nobody reads it, but when they do, it is probably from a long time ago, like an ancient archive just dug up from centuries ago. Basically like “ghost town”, but instead “ghost blog”. I thought one thing was funny was when Lampa did a research on the survey and many people post once on their blog. I thought of doing that too, but I am demanded to post more than once.

Main Idea + Key Terms:

• Blogosphere: Communication and connection with others the world of blogs.
• Blogging Iceberg: When someone think of blogging is another source for discussions of media and linking, when it only represents 10% of the blogs in use.
• Filters: The contents that goes on your blog designated by the blogger’s opinions and interests.
• Publication: The preparation and issuing of a book, journal, piece of music, or other work for public sale.
• Community: A group of a specific interest or hobbies or having something in common in a way.
• M1: Blogging is a way to build new social skills for bloggers.
• M2: Blogging is an underrated activity or hobby to do.