Call me Sir Blogalot

4 weeks and 9 blog post later I feel like a new man, changed for the better and ready to challenge all of our worlds challenges. Well not really, but it does feel good to have written my first ever blog. I have to admit, I was skeptical going into this project. I had never really taken blogging seriously and I thought it was sort of dumb. But after writing my blog and reading others I began to find it interesting. I loved being able to write my opinions and then being able to go to a classmates page and read their opinion of the same piece of text.

The most challenging thing for me was writing in a less formal format. I am used to writing analytical essays with a thesis, evidence and analysis. I feel that this limited my ability as a blogger. Looking at my posts I saw that I kind of got stuck in between the formal format and the informal format and that took away from my writing. The most surprising thing that I encountered while blogging was how much I enjoyed it! Besides a steam of consciousness essay that I had to write in high school, I have not had the opportunity to write in this format before and it was revitalizing.

The one major way that my Internet reading and writing habits have changed is that I have become more aware of what I am doing on the Internet. The Internet log assignment was truly eye opening. Now I really pay attention to the websites I am going to and how many times I click on the facebook tab on my bookmark bar, not because I need to do something, but just out of pure habit. I also want to get more into blogging. I don’t really want to start a blog, because I don’t really have anything interesting to blog about, but a certainly want to start following other blogs. I have really begun to enjoy reading other blogs and reading others true opinions rather then edited and revised articles.