I’m struggling to understand how someone like me (challenged at anything to do with the internet and social network stuff) is supposed to compete with people in this course that have blogged before and have all this internet skills and what not. In the last tutorial they spoke about so many different websites and everyone was all like ‘Omg yeah I know that’ and I was just sitting there thinking ‘Omg what the fuck are they talking about’. I legit only have a Facebook page and I struggle with that, I don’t have instagram, twitter or any of that stuff. I don’t even know how to watch a movie online, its like the internet knows how bad I am and they ask me for my bank details every time!! Sorry I’m going off on a bit of a tangent here.

but you know what….

 
Since this whole blog shit is kinda new to me, the reading about what a blog actually is, was believe it or not quite insightful for me.

an extract from the reading:
“A blog (contraction of “web log”) is an online publication, diary or newsletter posted on a website by an individual, organisation, a business or community. A blog can be a personal diary, a photoboard, a running commentary on an area of interest, advice with links to other blogs and websites, or just advertising. Some blogs are interactive and encourage comments from readers, while others are non-interactive. There are a number of arts-related blogs, artists who have their own blogs to document and share their practice, and those who use blogging to discuss and review contemporary art, film and writing.”