Networked Media Production week1/2

WELL! This is my first time writing a blog so this is all very new to me. Various topics have been covered in the lectures, some in particular that I found to be quite interesting which I will get to further on. This week we talked a lot about blogs and how it has become a very popular way for people to express themselves, to pretty much talk about anything they find interesting, talk about themselves, stories, different websites, media events etc. and to share it with the rest of the world. A topic that i found interesting is Samuel Pepys' diary, when reading some of his entries its pretty much a blog written on paper in the 17th century. Here's a link to one of his diary entries http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1667/02/18/ Another site - http://blog.larkin.net.au/2007/11/15/pepys-diary-the-worlds-first-blog/ briefly talks about what Pepys writes in his diary, and how he includes 17th century English lifestyle including music, food, games etc. These topics are most popular to talk about even in today's blogs. In the lecture we also talked about Heather Armstrong, initially she started a website to talk about topics such as pop culture and music, much like the topics Pepys includes in his diary. Even though Heather was fired from her job talking about work without permission, her style of writing has become very popular, she 'monetized' the situation and now considers herself to be a professional blogger. http://www.dooce.com/about - This is Heather's site which also includes information about herself. What I find so interesting is how similar Pepys' diary is to today's blogs and how over the years different styles of writing and expression has not changed as much as technology has. Anyway that's my blog for this week.