Last week’s lectorial began on a semi low note; the lack of blogging among students. Ironically, I’m posting this a week after the lecture actually happened, though I have been posting more frequently (mainly initiative and progress on my Project Brief 3 – which is finally finished). Rachel called for us to notice the affordances of blogging – that is, the points of difference blogging has. As blogging is an online form, it stands apart from a written journal; it has a certain immediacy to it that anything offline just cannot have. One can go to a lecture, take notes and publish a blog post immediately after the lecture finishes for all to see; a journal has to be hand written and distributing it to interested parties may take time and a lot more effort. Another affordance of blogging is the interactivity; when you post online, you post for the whole world to see. And with such a global audience, a blog can attract followers, people will comment on your posts and generate a discourse about the topics that you post. The last affordance I will discuss is the ability to personalise a blog in a way a written journal cannot be personalised. You can alter the design, structure and colour scheme of the site. You can add images, change fonts and sizes, even give it a title. Almost everything is up to the blogger, and no two blogs will ever be alike. Liken this to a written journal; often on plain paper, the only true difference the words used and perhaps the handwriting. Overall, a blog has many points of difference that many other mediums do not afford. Perhaps I need to brush up on my blogging; posting more, posting more often; posting differently. Its something that I can take into the professional or personal realms, for my own pleasure or for documentation of my professional growth.