I thought the lecture was interesting this week. Especially the story of the blogger that got his hands on a number of photographs of coffins containing dead American soldiers and then posted them on a blog. Previously this was not allowed to be done in the American media and it made the media in America decide to eventually stop following this rule.
I found it amazing how one blog managed to change a whole nation.
The other part I found great was how blogs can be used as a media watch of sorts.
The other story was about how a photographer had edited his photograph of a fire to make it look worse than it was. A blogger noticed this and posted it on his blog causing the photographer's bosses to get a bit annoyed.
In the tut we discussed wether blogs are a good source of information at all.
I couldn't decide, some blogs have brilliant information on them but I find that they are few and far between. There are more blogs that are dedicated to creative, like the photoblog I posted previously, or simply opinionated content. Some are just shit.
There are those that do give you links to good information. There is practically a blog about anything and it's quite possible to find a blog where someone has posted heaps of links to websites they think are useful and relevant to the topic.
Humans after all are the best type of search engine.
Hmm... I guess then that blogs are a useful tool to an extent but are NEVER the only source of information you should use.
I think that a blogs place on the web is for anyone to have their own space on the net where they can discuss and share whatever they want, including their own creative work.
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