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?