Reaction to blogging

I have enjoyed writing blogs much more than I anticipated. The articles we have read so far have been on interesting relevant topics, so writing a short 250 word response to a single article has been easy to do, much more so than writing essays every week. I have also enjoyed getting to read and look at other peoples’ point of view on the same article, something that often is not possible to do when writing longer essays. I have never had a writing course that treated writing as conversational as we do through this class in blogging, and I think it is beneficial to be able to freely read everyone’s writing so spark ideas for your own. The most challenging part, mostly because I just forget, has been commenting on other peoples’ blog posts. It is not difficult to write and ask questions in the comments, I just never remember. My attitude toward reading and writing on the web has remained fairly unchanged. I see reading and writing on the web as an important thing for us to be doing, and something we cannot ignore. Everyday we are becoming more technology dependent so we must know how to take in and gather information on the web and also be able to write in a form that is presentable and readable on the web. Without knowing this, we will fall behind on the new reading and writings standards as they change with the web.