HW#19 The Web Of Influence

The paragraph that I chose from the chapter “Web of Influence” is on the bottom of page 91. It is the last paragraph on the page and it continues onto the next page. This part of the chapter shows that blogs are much easier to fix and correct over and over. For example, it states that journalism has spun out of control because they are unable to maintain the truth up to date. The blogs on the internet, allow a person to add more onto and correct something if they misinterpret what they heard or read. In other words, the media and journalists today are unable to maintain the constant changing factors that effect everyday news. They are unable to keep an up to date evaluation of the new information coming into the media world. It states in the paragraph that bloggers “Have become so adept at fact-checking the media that they’ve spawned many other high-profile retractions and corrections.” They have the ability and the resources to check and recheck their information. They are able to produce a very up to date and informative post. My conclusion, then, is that blogs are easier to be trusted because they have more resources to back up what they are stating.

Hw#13 Importance of Blogging on Buisness

I think the impact of blogging on business, is more important than the impact of blogging on communication. I think this because I feel that the business blogs affect the outcome of people’s opinions more. They write about a certain company that they think has a bad product and people believe them. More people believe them because they have evidence to back up their views. This greatly effects how companies should monitor business blogs. They should do this because if they don’t monitor and react to people’s blogs, it could become dangerous for the companies well being. Ultimately, what is at stake here is the companies’ popularity. Business blogs are growing at a massive amount. As it states in Blogs will Change your Business, “Technorati says 23,000 blogs are being built every day; the Business Week story ups that to 40,000.” The growing of these blogs means that more companies will be at risk for a decrease in popularity. This risk of exposure is something that companies need to keep taps on.

HW#5b Trusting the Unknown

September, 13 2007
There isn’t really anything I greatly disagree with in the chapter “I Blog therefore I am.” One thing that I found questionable was the fact that they wrote about how the Newspaper and other media are not trusted anymore. I question this because how are people putting so much faith and trust into these blogger. David Kline argues that the “bloggers cite their information right on the page.” My reaction is that they could be lying, showing these false sights and convincing people to believe them. Kline reminds us, “that 62% of people believe that the press is biased in political reporting.” Each individual blogger online is biased to their own views and beliefs in the politics. They are all writing about what they think about a certain politician or what they are doing. I don’t understand what the big difference is between the biased views online and in regular media. Kline also reports that “the regular media has abused its power, and lost its readers respect.” We all don’t know what the blogger are hiding, we don’t know enough about blogging to start trusting them so much.