Blog History-Part 2 New platforms for tales and telling

I think this is a great funny video of the history of blogging....



According to (Alexander,pg 47) blogging is the dinosaur or granddaddy of the social media authoring platforms. The first days of the form and its similarities to diaries provided an early comparison to the "classic narrative tool". The personal sense associated with diaries also enabled "blogger? to emerge as a category. On a personal level (Alexander pg 48) The author talks about teaching with blogs in the Spring of 2011 during a british literature class.  as the semester progressed  he found each blog entry as the students self-representation more so than any other digital teaching tools as discussion board. Even thought the assignments was an experiment it felt easy and very natural.



If there was ever a place I feel like I could post anything is definitely my blogs. I mean on my facebook page for example you have to be careful to truly express yourself because you can offend somebody or if you vent about work you can get fired. So definitely blogging is the closest thing we have to diaries now a days.