Week 4

Just finished the readings for unit 2. The article by Rebecca Blood was very interesting as it gave a desciption on the history of the weblog,better known now as just blogs. The ability for people to have a chnce to write journals and to post their veiws on current events is a great selling point of using blogs. The thought of being able to reflect on world events with the possibility of communicating with a total stranger with similar veiws is very appealing.
I really liked the article on RSS Oprah Way . Her interpretation of RSS meaning "Ready for Some Stories" was an interesting way of renaming the term RSS. One thing that I have come to realize about RSS feeds is that you really can have to much of a good thing and that you should limit yourself to a few good feeds that you can keep up with rather than being overwhelmed with the massive amounts of information that can eventually consume your every waking moment.
For those of you that need to know about the latest tech craze check out the article on Microformats:
"The Big Picture on Microformats".