Net11 SP2 2009

"LOG ENTRY:In your learning log, record your thoughts. Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs? This blog entry is an opportunity to tell us what you really think of blogging!"(Allen, M n.d)

Blogging for good, Not evil - There are a great many positive uses for Blogs. Educational, informational, entertaining and personal. Ofcourse, those that you choose to follow will have content that you enjoy, weather that be family related, craft, statistics, technology, sporting or news. I enjoy the time I spend on blogs, and I spend a lot :-) I love craft blogs, quilting/sewing. One of my favorite blogs is a compilation of blogs, all along the same theme, new things listed daily and categorised. It's called One Pretty Thing

The evil side of blogging is starting to emerge, anyone can start a blog and use any name they like. This could be the platform they use to defame, cyber bully or libel someone. Courtney Love (Chigagotribune.com 2009) was recently sued by a clothing designer after she claimed in her blog and on Twitter, that the designer was a theif, liar & drug dealer. "This year, a court awarded $129,794 to an Ohio woman after a blogger said her property was haunted, reports Media Law". http://www.newsu.org/ are offering a free course especially for Bloggers, Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Online Publishers

____________________________________________________________________ Allen, M n.d "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere: e-writing?", Retrieved on July21, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-yourmoney-0705blogs,0,5069752.story

http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=nwsu_medialaw08