Blogging Comments

Commenting on blogs will lead to some interesting conversations.  I can see where writing, commenting, and reading those comments can be very affirming, especially for someone who isn't confident about expressing themselves.  I can also see where blogging, commenting, reading comments, responding and repeating the cycle can consume a great amount of time.

You Tube Video on Web 2.0

Watched the YouTube video on Web 2.0.  It was numbing to think how far we've come in such a short time.  The power for sharing information, tomes of information, is overwhelming.  I was particularly taken by the authors last few frames where he "spoke" of new benchmarks for copyright, authorship, ethics, accuracy, etc. 

He also spoke of something very briefly:  love.  That term meant something different to me in this context.  I see the Web as literature -- non-fiction literature to be exact.  But it seems to lack poetry.  Yes, pictures can ellicit profound emotion, but it's not the same as human contact or poetry.  A picture or video will generate an immediate emotional response.  The picture is immediate and the response is too.  Human contact develops the emotional response slowly -- like poetry.

I hope we never lose that.

Post # 2

Well, my first blog was suposed to be about some anonynmous item.  My second blog was to be about what items of Web 2.0 interest me.  Of course, I got them reversed.  Some days I can't organize a two car funeral.  I get the hearse coming in last.

Post #1

Here we go.

I'm interested in the features of Web 2.0 -- flickr, blog, facebook, mashup, etc. I'd like to see if there is an application to help with teaching algebra and physical science. While I doubt I'll set up a personal blog to announce to the world that I'm sitting down to a dinner of meatloaf and mashed potatoes, I do want to know what blogging is and how it might be used. I do know of a family that kept their extended family up to date while their infant son underwent heart surgery at U of M Hospital. It saved them considerable energy by not having to repeat the same story over and over and over.