let the love flow!

in class today, betty asked us to read 3 fellow classmate’s blogs and review a post we liked, loved, hated, found interesting, etc. so, to get the ball rolling, i’ll begin with this post from callum’s blog. it’s a personal one and while it’s not of the most interesting topics (i mean public transport, blergh, gives me nightmares) i actually found it interesting. i like that cal went to the effort to find the stats, which really interested me. damn london and their fantastic transport system. i agree with him on the unlikely nature of being able to successfully achieve a public transport system like london’s or paris’, but it’s nice to think about regardless. where i live, there’s only one bus that’ll take me from close to my house to the city and that’s unreliable at best. look at me, at first i said it was a bad topic to discuss and now i’m ranting and raving. thanks, cal! 

last week i was bedridden with the flu (winter sucks, man) and was unable to make it to the symposium for fear of dropping dead. so, to compensate i read a few fellow media students’ blogs regarding it to gain an insight. one post i really enjoyed was giorgia’s. i gathered that there was a further discussion on people’s ignorance regarding network literacy. she points out how it’s scary how for people who are so technologically capable, we’re actually quite illiterate when it comes to certain aspects, especially when it comes to rules and regulations and copyright infringement. i think it is quite alarming how unaware we are of such things, and i myself am sure i’ve broken many a copyright law and shared videos or photos quite inappropriately. i guess for me, and i suppose it’ll probably apply to others, it was a case of when we were learning to function a computer in basic ways we just weren’t made aware of these consequences, which have become much more of a fickle topic and problem. and for this reason, the issue just often flies straight over our heads. oops!

last, but certainly not least, mitchell’s reflection on the first reading was really interesting. i liked his quote that “the notion of blogs being something (ironically) organic that is always growing, changing and dependent upon its interaction with other blogs”. i think it was a really interesting concept to draw from the reading and i’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. from reading people’s blogs from when they started and now, six weeks later, and how they’ve evolved. i tend to wonder if it’s because they’ve been influenced by the style, the writing, the content, the aesthetic, etc. of someone else’s blog or that they’ve, i guess, “come into” themselves and found their internet voice. either way, it’s a comforting thought knowing that all of us, just by existing and blogging, are helping our fellow media peers to grow and mature their blog into something inherently them. so thanks mitch, for getting we’re all in this together from high school musical stuck in my head