Killer of habits

Characteristics of blogs

Since the beginning of these e-culture lessons, I use my blog to analyse the principles of the e-culture, discussing with other students and my teacher.
Let’s try now to see how the blog itself is characteristics of the e-culture, with the help of the analysis I have pointed before.

Blog express personal qualities which are essential for the experience of the E-culture
First of all, blogs are created to share with others our experiences For instance, with the blogs of the other students from the Celsa and our commun blog, we share our English lessons with people. Generosity is the main point. Blogs are on the web to be seen by others. Moreover, you can open many blogs for free, which is relay generous from the editor! Comments allow people to communicate with me, sharing their experience and points of view. They necessitate discipline, because a good blog is a blog you bring up to date. If you don’t, people are upset and they will never come back to your blog. You have to be patient, because to collect interesting information, you need to think of it and see what is really interesting to be put on your blog. You also need perseverance, because you progress by working, and each day your blog becomes better. You learn how to add pictures (I still have to focuse on this point!) how to write better. A bad time is alway the time the system is out of order and you have to republish your post ! (I still have a headache when I think of it!).
You need contemplation to explore the web. you spend time to see how people use it, what kind of new services and new technologies are provided, new ways of surfing to kill the bad habits!
Endless, analysis is essential too. You have to provide relevant comments to make your blog a reference for a community, even if it is a small one!

Blogs express the qualities of the E-culture

Blogs are also mirrors of the qualities of the E-culture we discussed before. Like all the web culture, blogs are inhabited by impermanence. Blogs change all the time, new blogs are created all the day long, other die, abandoned by their creator who create a new one in another place or are closed by the regulator.

To blog, you must keep an open mind. You have to be open to change the way you do things. For example, blogs add more and more RRS flow. So you have to make the effort to understand it and use it because that is just the way it is.

Of course, blogs are also transparent. Anybody can access to your blog because the is the principle of the Internet. But if most of the blogs are really open, some of them reduce their access, like Philippe did with his French blog dedicated to his job research. And you can also make the choice not to use your real identity, like I did. But why shouls we hide? I think I will use my real name in my future French blog, because I am no more afraid of it now.

Blogs are precious opportunities to learn things for curious people like bloggers are. If you are fond of cinema and addicted to the Festival de Cannes, blogs give you the opportunity to focus differently on the festival, if you are not among the privileged people authorised to access to the famous Festival.

Blogs are killer apps

Blogs outsource to the consumer. Each of us does a part of the job by himself, even when the kind of system you choose is not free! We open the blog and we register, we add contents without the help of anybody.
They ensure the continuity for the customer: when it is open, you still find a service behind, with tools to help you to do the job. They replace rude interfaces with learning interfaces: even if is is easier to create a website, it has noting in common with the creation of a blog! You can really do it easily.

posted by killiane @ 1:55 AM