Thursday, January 29, 2009

Thing #4

Blog language varies from informal & chatty to professional & academic. I found my attention or focus would drift missing the point of the conversation as I plowed through the many entries. Reading blogs requires a new set of skills-a set I do not have at this time but will need to develop. The main point of the blog conversations seems to shift and a few digress (makes me think of the epic form with its many voices and many digressions and many catalogs). As I create this blog, I am writing my way into meaning. What do I know or how much do I not know? A "blog literacy" is developing with a set of skills and strategies.

2 comments:

  1. I find it's easier to keep focused when it's more casual. The blogs that have pictures or use different fonts help too.

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  2. Knowing how to skim and scan your way through lots of information to find what is really pertinent to you becomes a hugely important skill in the 21st century.

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