Before I start talking about this week’s symposium, Adrian brought up some points from last week to think over again.

• A blog does not have beginning or an end like a book – there is no edge to blogs
• You can say that a blog post has a end but it can link to other people’s blog and they can link to yours – it’s ongoing and keeps connecting
• A different way to look at shifts into different mediums like written material (books) into online material (blogs) is not to find ways to make it the same but what we couldn’t do before? Or what this might enable us to do now?
• For instance, blogs are more interaction, anyone with internet access can write a blog while it’s harder to publish books, you can continuously edit blogs

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Talking about defamation and copyright a lot in the past weeks has made me more aware of every time I site something or use an image. However possibly to point where it has unnecessarily restrained me because most of the rules I already followed. For example covers of songs are breaching copyright however there are so many you tubers who specifically just cover songs. They haven’t been prosecuted mainly because there isn’t going to be much benefit from doing it. Some of the key points I took away was that:

• We should be writing critically rather than just an opinion with no evidence – what we write about has to be based on facts and information presented to us
• The intent doesn’t matter – the reception (how your audience perceived it) matters
• If you are publisher of the site you are responsible for all the content (even the comments)
• However they are trying to introduce as system where the server provider is responsible for all the content

*Image sourced from flickr