6/24/12 All about blogging

I have never really heard of blogging or read a a blog before. So this experience should be interesting. I am pretty good with a computer so getting this done was not too difficult. I did watch the movie Juile and Julia and I am pretty are that had to do with blogging. What i gathered from blogging bliss is that it is a personal diary that we are keeping our notes and personal opinions on the particular book that we are reading. I am excited to try something new. It was easy enough to make and I will start next time with my thoughts on the book as I read.
I read this blog that this lady did about all the books that she has and her ordeal with trying to either find more space for them or try to get rid of some. She seemed pretty reluctant to get rid of many books. As an avid book reader myself I found this blog most interesting.I consistently find it hard to find places for all my books. I wish that I could just fill my apartment up with book shelves but there is only so much room.
I feel that if the students were to get into blogs they might find what they are reading more interesting because they are able to give there true opinion on the content and say things the way they really feel. I had a class where we had to give a weekly report on an article that we read. I had so much trouble with this because I tried to make it like a report. After my Professor saw that I was having trouble with it she suggested to me that I write it like a letter to her as my best friend. Once I got into this role as describing the articles in a letter to a best friend I blossomed and was able to understand the content better and really understand how I felt about it.
When I first thought about blogs I thought they would be short little paragraphs about once a day types of things. A lot of the blogs that I found were not done on a daily basis but very sporadically. I also noticed that the blogs were very long and contained pictures in them as well. I found this to be a neat idea. As an artist and a lover of pictures I would definitely incorporate pictures in my personal blog if I had one.
I found that the tone that most of the blogs that I read were like talking to friends. They were not trying to educate but just trying to to say what was on their mind about a certain subject. I think that this is what makes blogs special. It is getting information out there but in a very personal matter. A way that is interesting and that regular people can relate to. This makes me very excited!