Thing 4
Blog reading is like having a snack. I promise this analogy is going somewhere. Novels are the big meals, the heavy hitters. When I read one, I’m sated and satisfied for quite a while. But blogs are small bites, and I can read a dozen posts without feeling too heavy. Blog writing can be similar to a novel, full of details and a running narrative. Or it can be a small glimpse of a life, short and to the point.
I think that commenting on a blog can help the writer, but for someone treating the blog as a journal, can ultimately not matter. Sure, it may make you feel validated to know that someone out there in webspace is reading your thoughts, but what does it matter in the long run? The words are your own, and I feel that a blog is meant to maintain your own personal sanity. As for blogging literacy, that really depends upon the person. I love grammar and spelling, and can’t imagine not wanting to carry that through to anything that I write. But text speak does permeate the internet, and there are many people that use that in their blogs. Literacy is in the eye of the beholder.
Of the several blog posts I read, including why I don’t assign homework and turning on a faucet, I enjoyed teaching brevity and ssr 2.0 the most. These blogs did give me another perspective, especially ssr 2.0. They show that the world is becoming brief, snatches of time that people can read during breaks. Part of me (the ADD part of me), loves this. But the other part of me wonders what happened to attention span, when tv was a science fictional idea and books were entertainment. Blogging, while revolutionary and helpful, may hurt us in ways we can’t know yet.
