READING: A Personal Self(Blog)-Assessment

I just finished reading Rettberg’s first two chapters of Blogging and I’ve realized it’s time to assess what I’ve done here, so far, and where I belong in the blogosphere. Rettberg poses that blogs have genres, and therefore I would suppose that my blog would also fit within a set genre. In some ways, my blog is very personal, using the personal I and being very much about I and my projects and thoughts, thus emulating Rettberg’s example of a personal diary blog: dooce.com, but my blog also attempts filterblogging. On one or two occasions, I’ve linked a video I enjoyed or thought was vaguely interconnected to our course’s studies. So, if we had to define this blog, what terms would we use? Have I exemplified a mind-boggling re-rendering of genre, combining the personal genre with an external filtering one or…? No, clearly not. I would say that up to this point this blog has been a place to respond to our readings and I am only slowly becoming more comfortable with the medium, experimenting and incorporating visuals…
and recognizing that a blog is an interactive medium (if you’re wondering about the image chosen above, I got an e-mail from QuidClub yesterday asking for logos for a Quidditch shirt and I was bored last night, so call it fan-fiction or whatever you like, but I fixed this together using the technological wonders of MicrosoftWord. We’ll see if the club chooses it. I’ve been told it’s too intricate of a design). But anyway, all this reminds me a blog is about interactivity!!! It’s a dialogue and not a one-way street, so post a reply if you have one. Riddle my drawings, riddle my timbers, criticize and riddle whatever you’d like, but let’s get Platonic and start up a dialogue!

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