Blogs and the Blog Revolution Essays -- Internet Online Communication

The Blog RevolutionOur history is littered with advancements in writing and communication technologies that incur had profound and long lasting effectuate on our modern society. One need only look post five centuries to the time shortly before the advent of the printing pressure sensation to see a time when towns were so isolated that even password from their closest neighbors were rare and the sight of a book outside of a church was even less common. Yet 100 years subsequent the total number of books in hold upence, and the spread of information and ideas alongside, had increased explosively (Burke). The invention of the printing press was undoubtedly one of the around pregnant advances in communications in modern history. Recently, a similar revolution has been taking place, but this time it has spread across the globe at a much faster speed. We all know this revolution as the Internet, and though it is still relatively young, no one will repel the claim that it has alrea dy had sweeping effects upon our society. How of all time, the Internet is not a specific tool, rather it is a means for which other tools can be employed. The earliest and most widespread of these is E-Mail, but no less touristed are instant messaging programs, news and personal websites and even backchat forums. Each of these can be said to serve their own peculiar function and some can even be said to have influenced the way people write. A newer tool has recently arisen as well, most commonly known as blogging software. This software takes the form of an online journal reachable to anyone who cares to view it. These blogs, however, seem to try to accomplish the same function as several of the pre-existing and more widespread tools, and it is for this reason that I do not believe tha... ...action as many other tools already do, is in fact a niche technology. For, as mentioned, some people do wish for a place to be the focus and let their thoughts be known to the rest of the world. This is evident by the fact that blogs and personal websites exist all over, even though they may never be as popular in readership or participation as the other technologies. So, though I do not believe that blogging software will ever become as widespread as its older cousins, it does serve a small niche of people with exactly what theyre looking for.Works CitedMitchell, William J. homing pigeon to Homepage Designing Digital Books. Rethinking Media Change. Ed. David Thornburn, and Henry Jenkins. Cambridge MIT Press, 2003. 203-215.Burke, James. communion in the Middle Ages. Communication in History Technology, Culture, Society. Ed. Crowley, and Heyer. 74-82.