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Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Blogging Mania
I had been trying to maintain a blog for many years but failed miserably on both accounts. When I found out I had to start blogging as part of my Language and ICT course, I realized this may just be an opportunity for me to make this blog work. I used to have loads of fun jazzing up my blogs way before I actually start posting anything. However with this new blogger that moved out of Beta, I'm getting terribly stressed out whenever I try to customize my blog skin because some error stating that my xml is not well parsed and closed. Being a computer dumb dumb, I couldn't understand what it meant and still don't in fact. I understand the use of html up to a certain level and I must thank blogging for that. I learned about the joys of messing around with html to make a page look funky.
There are several pros and cons of using blogger. I found it to be a place where we can express our feelings freely for the world to read. Our literacy skills are put to the test and we can improve our use of language online because knowing that many people will have access to reading our material, it makes us more self-conscious about how our written english will translate onto the screen. Some of the cons about blogging is that not all thoughts that are expressed online can be accepted by everybody. Sometimes racial and political issues arise and this causes conflicts and misunderstandings. Another con would be that even though blogging may be an arena whereby we can improve our english language, many still abuse this by using manglish and any other form of a mashed up language.
The introduction of blogging has made this course worth looking forward to. It's exciting to post assignments online and we get marks to jazz up out blogs. Could anything possibly get better than this? I really enjoy blogging now and if I can actually have the time and (god-willing) a strong internet access, I'll definately continue this blogging experience outside of this course requirement!
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