Lore Academic Blogging

Lore Blog Essay Review

I think my favorite essay from the lore website would be the one by Angelina Karpovich. In her essay, “I Blog, Therefore I Am,” she explains how contagious blogging can be. I find it funny how her colleague thought the term “blog” was some sort of disease. Just as Karpovich says, blogging is indeed a sort of contagious “disease” that infects people to talk electronically online. I think it is true that blogging is a great way to socialize with others about anything whether it comes to problems in life or just straight forward talking about one’s day. Karpovich provides her own example of why blogging is useful to her: she states that people “frequently offer support and advice on issues both personal and academic.” It seems that she is happy to have accidentally gone from participating in a research site to exploring her ideas and thoughts in blogs with others and utilizing other people’s personal inputs. I agree with Karpovich that blogs can be an addicting but fun way to talk to others no matter what the subject. Personally, I occasionally type up a poem and place it in my MySpace blog. I think it is a great way to write out my anxieties while at the same time inspiring others when they read my poems. Also, people can evaluate my writing and then I can use their positive reinforcement to create better writing in the future.