Day 1

Today was the first day of the summer semester course.

We had a general overview of the course and what would be taught and assessed.

We talked about the definitions on communication, technology and weblog.

Its interesting to see other peoples views on the Internet and its uses. While watching a comedy news sketch the question came up are blog journalists, really journalists. Are you a journalist just because you report the fact on your bloggs, with or without credentials. Many bloggers do go out and attend press conferences and find out the news first hand, but also many bloggers don't tend to go out and get the information themselves rather they find the information from already published pages. So is it news when its secondary news.

However blogs are not only for journalist bloggers, but anyone who wants to put their views on the web for everyone to see. It could be a personal blog about someones travels, or a team blog about how a team is doing through the year, or just someone wanting so show the world on the net what they are about. Athlough many journalist bloggers think of these people as knit bloggers, as a joke on the fact they want to talk about their interests and things like that. But the fact still remains the internet and web are places where there is encouragement to add to the applications to the web. The web is a form of free speech.

But the question is when does that freedom of speech go too far? or too many personal things being posted lead to someones ability to steal your identity.....

At present the laws on what is uploaded to the web are behind the times and for the safety of everyday people using the web. This is something that only only be watched for the near future as the government tries to catch up and do what it can to legislate the web.