Blogging!?!

Blogging….hmmm well I honestly think that blogging, for me at least, is just a avenue to express my opinions. Blogging in general can be anything for anyone: a way to promote a product, a way to promote yourself, a way to update people on your life, etc. My experience with blogging began with the journalism program that I was apart of. Profs would ask students to blog about what they learned or want to learn in class or they would ask student to response on a certain topic. This is my only experience with blogs. Other then that I have not invested time into blogging for my own purpose. Seeing that I have a Facebook and MySpace account I found that I could express myself through those avenues.

As with the other blogs I have posted these blogs that I have posted in this last semester have been for assignment for a class. I don’t really find them useful for me because I don’t think that many people read blogs unless they are searching for a particular topic. Because I feel this way I don’t really take them so seriously. I write only to complete an assignment. Its not that I don’t think that blogging can be a good way to get a writing career started but writing is not something that I want to do in my life.

That being said, I do think that it is possible for a writer can get noticed by a legitimate publication through their blogs. A famous movie comes to mind, Julie and Julia, was a perfect example of this. This movie tells of a writer who gets famous but writing a blog about using Julia’s Famous cooking recipes. After her blog becomes popular she gets many job offers from publications. I think that if wanted to be a writer this would an awesome way to get my name out there as a writer. Every time you post a blog you’re basically publishing your own work. Technology has most definitely changed the way the field of Journalism operates. Now a days people can be a famous writer without even have to talk to a publication.