Blogging

I really never paid attention to what blogging is and who "blogs" until coming to Dr. Luongo's course. I remember hearing all about Rosie O'Donald's blogs about one of her co-workers on the View and I was immediately turned off to blogging. I quickly thought this was another mechanism to exploit someone. Years ago if one was angry at someone, they may argue or tell their friends about the problem. If the people were celebrities and worthy of national attention, it make get a 10 second spot on the news, but if not no one knew of someone else's problems. Now the whole world knows that there was a "situation" and the blogging is biased. The person or situation being blogged about has to respond to make it right from their perspective if they care to re- inform the "world". Prior to this course that was my idea of "blogging".

With the advent of technology, a whole new world is open to us and this world is expanding every day. Yes, technology --- like computers, the Internet, new medical technology, etc has brought us so much good. Technology gives us a platform to "speak" - one we have never had to this magnitude before.

Blogging allows us to share our ideas with those who are interested in what we have to say. We can collaborate with professionals in our field who live in other places of the world that we have never met. We can constantly exchange information and learn from each other.