I havent written a blog in a while and Id firstly like to apologise!!!
Its not because I have given up on it, it is just that I had two asignments due the week before holidays and I had done hardly any prep so I was rushing around trying to do those (my own fault I know). SO i am going to write about four weeks worth of blogs I think??My last was April 1st so I think I am right!!!

I will start back with Week 6 notes blogs!!!

I have noticed that by not going to the classes it is a lot harder to discuss ideas as I guess you do not have everyone's opinion and will mean that in some ways I am biased. But i will write what I think...

Blogs... Something which I HAD thought of as stupid, lame and something that only people with nothing better to do had done! But seriously I was just a *#(@^ (i hope some of you can guess what that is!). Its funny because when I thought blogs were lame I was and still am a BEBOEr and so was infact blogging without realising I was blogging. I was also a weekly emailer person who sent emails to friends and family to update what it was I was doing. This also being classified as blogging. So I was and will probably always be a blogger.

2. Do you think that blogs are challenging the role of ‘traditional’ news media (I.e.: print and television)? Why/not?
3. Do you think there should be a code of conduct for news/information bloggers, just as there is for professional journalists? What should it contain? Is such a code even feasible?

These were the questions asked in class which I did not get to hear and so I will write my answers and ideas on these topics.

Do you think that blogs are challenging the role fo 'traditional' news media?

I definetaly do!!! Television and print are both ideas that the consumer is not actively involved in the television but are rather silent and have no real say in the television. If they see something that they do not like they can perhaps let someone know but there is no real say in whether or not something can be aired.
However, with blogs, people can write what they want to write... They can say whether they liked what that person had to say or whether they truly believed in the ideas of this or that. Basically, with a blog people can write whatever they want!!!

On the television there is only the majority of the audience have a say in what will be aired on the television. In blogs, even the smaller minorities have the right to say what they want... To write what they want and to have people listen to them, or rather read what they wrote...

Do you think there should be a code of conduct for news/information bloggers, just as there is for professional journalists? What should it contain? Is such a code even feasible?

I do not think that a code should be put into place. As a professional journalist you are paid to write whatever it is that you write, whether it be something favourable for the masses or something that will be controversial and all, there is so much you can do for a professional piece. As a professional you know the difference between right and wrong, you have been taught the importance of what it is you are writing.

Many bloggers are regular people who have regular jobs and do regular things. However, blogging may have started due to something that they could not do in their normal lives, like their obsession of cats or something much more complex.

A code at the moment I think is not feasible... But, the way that the internet has moved forward over the past years shows that these codes may become feasible in the years to come. There may be some complete control over what people can print or such on the internet, then again there may not be! The internet was first designed for the government only but soon became for the public aswell.. THere may be a time when the government may have no control whatsoever
of what will go on the internet.

As for the first question what is the information value of blogs i tried to answer it but my answer became a bit complicated...

ANY IDEAS???
What is the information value of blogs??? In simple terms?? Or as simple as you can?

How do we evaluate the value of informatioN????

Ok ok, so my last post was a bit of a ramble (which most of them are but...) so I am going to try to write somethink more clearly about last weeks work. Virtual communities are a really interesting topic because to be honest I was never really in them. I mean I had bebo for my friends here in New Zealand and Hi5 which I used for my overseas friends and family! But there was really nothing else that I used I mean truthfully I thought that chat rooms and blogs and all that were stupid but I have seen the errors of my ways! I have found that on the internet you can trully find really good people to talk to, you can find a group of people for a whole sort of reasons! As Alana wrote about, you can find a group that you can talk to about problems that you find hard to talk to face to face, you could find people on the internet that share your crazy fettish something that is too embarassing to talk to with someone you know! THere are lots of reasons.

I would also like to talk about the question that was most important in week 5.... How do we evaluate the value of information??...

I saw this question and soon enough the rebel in me or the debater in me started to question in straight away... How is it that giving your address is a high value part of information where a photo is a low value...?? I mean why is it that a photo is not a high value? I believe that it is much higher than giving your address. It shows what you look like, it may show some of what your friends look like, it shows a specific location, and it could even show some of your personality in your dress sense and the way your face is... Is it not that this is a high value piece of information.??

An address may show where you live but chances are there are more than one person living in that house so how do they know which one you are? SOmetimes people also put a fake address so some people do not even trust this address whereas you can usually tell when this is not a real photo of you!!!

Anyway, what are your thoughts? do you disagree or agree?? WHy??