Forum - Week 2 - Blogging

Were talking about blogging, some terms derived from blogging world as well as some blogging etiquette.

Well, Stephen started up the class with asking us to introduce ourselves to the class. And then the discussion started with the topic of blogging. Stephen read out some of his findings based on his readings about blog. "To blog or not to blog," that is the question.

To be honest, I was pretty confused as to why are we talking about blogging in Music Technology forum, but I guess blogging is one of the many results of the development of technology. The reason we discussed about blogging could also due to the fact that we do use blog in Music Technology as a way to submit our portfolio. We also discussed whether it is a good way to pass up our portfolio through blogs.

Some other topics we covered were the value of an information and the etiquette of blogging. In some media, an information become more valuable as more media stores the information whereas in some others an information become less valuable as more media stores that information. Blogging has some etiquettes that bloggers have to note too, and that includes the good old referencing.

Aside from all the seriousness, we had some fun with the invention of new blogging terms (neoblogism?). Like the fact that we live in the blogisphere (the world of blogging) and are in a blogademia. The tendency toward the blogging of everything is called blogalisation. Materials picked up by bloggers for their blogs are called blog fodder and feeding too much blog fodder can cause bloggarrhea. Meanwhile, a person who keeps checking their blogs on how much hits they have had is called a blog hawk. A person who maintains a relationship by the means of blogging is called blogamy and I guess more than one relationship would be called polyblogamy. Unfortunately there are some really famous bloggers called blogerati who in turn outshines many bloggers which results in bloglivions (unpopular blogs).