INFO 102 - First Post
Blogging Services
I wrote a little blurb about each service and eventually decided on LiveJournal.
Blogger
What's nice about Blogger is that it's easy to set up if you already have a Google account. It's fairly customizable in terms of templates and widgets. I've used Blogger for several years to maintain a personal blog.
LiveJournal
The inherent advantages of using LiveJournal are community-based features. I can post emoticons and easily see what my friends write. I used to be on LiveJournal at the beginning of the millennium and I thought it would be nice to start using it again.
WordPress
Definitely the best service out there. WordPress has one of the best plugin communities and is very, very powerful with customizable PHP layouts and more. I use WordPress to power my personal website and I've enjoyed everything about it. Also, WordPress is LaTeX-enabled.
I'm using LiveJournal because I want to see what has changed since the old days. It's clearly the inferior option to the three provided and is starting to look like MySpace. However, I will endure it for the sake of science and research.
The Impact of Blogs
Blogging has taken quite a toll on the integrity of journalism. It has allowed the everyday individual to communicate to a large audience via the Internet. Instead of representing a newspaper or magazine company, each individual represents him or herself and therefore has his or her own standards for writing. These standards may violate unspoken codes of respect, dignity, integrity, and use of cited sources. This has largely degraded journalism standards.
All of this has been lessened as large media has gained a larger online presence in the past few years. There is still a problem of making sure media sites cite their sources, but I feel like the online community is raising its standards as inaccurate articles clash with traditional media who do their research.
I wrote a little blurb about each service and eventually decided on LiveJournal.
Blogger
What's nice about Blogger is that it's easy to set up if you already have a Google account. It's fairly customizable in terms of templates and widgets. I've used Blogger for several years to maintain a personal blog.
LiveJournal
The inherent advantages of using LiveJournal are community-based features. I can post emoticons and easily see what my friends write. I used to be on LiveJournal at the beginning of the millennium and I thought it would be nice to start using it again.
WordPress
Definitely the best service out there. WordPress has one of the best plugin communities and is very, very powerful with customizable PHP layouts and more. I use WordPress to power my personal website and I've enjoyed everything about it. Also, WordPress is LaTeX-enabled.
I'm using LiveJournal because I want to see what has changed since the old days. It's clearly the inferior option to the three provided and is starting to look like MySpace. However, I will endure it for the sake of science and research.
The Impact of Blogs
Blogging has taken quite a toll on the integrity of journalism. It has allowed the everyday individual to communicate to a large audience via the Internet. Instead of representing a newspaper or magazine company, each individual represents him or herself and therefore has his or her own standards for writing. These standards may violate unspoken codes of respect, dignity, integrity, and use of cited sources. This has largely degraded journalism standards.
All of this has been lessened as large media has gained a larger online presence in the past few years. There is still a problem of making sure media sites cite their sources, but I feel like the online community is raising its standards as inaccurate articles clash with traditional media who do their research.