Written without Review.

Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Media, Rant, blog, blogging, opinion

Despite loving blogs, blogging and the blogosphere there are two things that often hold me back posting , if they didn’t there would be many more posts on this site.

Firstly, Self-Review. I think small blogs; such as this one, work better when people write there opinions in a bit of a rant form and instantly post the result. However, I will often find myself reviewing my posts over and over again and as a result watering them down. Now, I know this is not necessarily bad practice, but it often leads to me not posting things that may be of interest. The reason I trash these posts leads onto point two (in essence there both interrelated)

Secondly, Knowledge. I often scrap posts due to many of them not being readily linkable to anything to support them; as is the nature of ranting. This again is not necessarily a bad thing because sometimes blogs; particularly small blogs, work due to their scattergun approach. The majority of online communication encourages us to be spontaneous and to think and interact without thought… and while this does lead to some interesting content it should not dominate the intellectual exchange of ideas between individuals online. If it does the legitimacy of new media as a source of information could be undermined. There should be a happy balance between the two. Which I try and aim for.

So, as I’ve said before I’m going to add a disclaimer somewhere on this blog that states that some of the content on this blog is my opinion only… or something along those lines. And hopefully as a a result I will start posting some more interesting “off the cuff” posts, that is not to say they will dominate.

But what does seem to dominate on here is youtube videos, and that isn’t gonna change with this post. Here are a couple of comedy clips regarding the opinions of the public both in old and new media.

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Read more | Comments (0) | February 26th, 2010

Return of the blog!

Posted by unluckydip | Filed under blogging

This morning/afternoon I’ve finally got round to making a few changes to my blog, and this will probably continue for the next couple of days as I finally get back into keeping my blog updated.

On that note, I’ve found a nice piece of blogging software to use on my mac called Blogo, I’m just testing it at the moment, and as with most well made mac applications it appears to be slick, simple and yet still a highly powerful tool. There’s nothing wrong with using the web client, but it can feel a bit clunky at times and Blogo will hopefully solve that, I’ll report back in a few weeks and give it a bit of a review.

In the meantime I’d better continue with my university reading; and yet again I’ll leave you with a some web generated visual media, this time it’s video that is in-fact vaguely linked to the topic I’m reading about.


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Read more | Comments (0) | February 1st, 2010