In an article on MSNBC new blogging technology is discussed. With new technology could it make our class blogs easier? One of the new technologies is a program that is called Flickr. It is a program that interacts with blogging websites and allows the user to add effects to their blogs. It has the capability for you to take a picture with your camera phone or your video camera and send the file to Flickr and they will attach it to a blog of your choice. There is also some technology called AudBlog that will allow you to call a phone number and leave a four minute message which in minutes is uploaded to a webpage blog and then you can hear your audio blog online. Could this technology make our blogging assignments easier if we were allowed to use this kind of technology? If not easier then more exciting?
3 comments:
I definately think that this new technology could add some fun and excitement to blogging. Sometimes you want to incorporate a picture of your own to help with your blog but you cannot. This will help people to have more fun with it instead of just writing.
I agree with Julie and Callie. For the most part, I feel the blogging experience has been beneficial, however, I also think it has been abused. It seems that some people write hurried, meaningless comments in an attempt to get extra credit points. Where is the learning in that?
-1 for spelling mistakes on Janet and Maudi's comments.
Sorry folks ... I don't seem to remember the School of Business Advisory Board saying that you needed more help in posting pictures, or leaving glorified answering machine messages. I do seem to recall something in there about writing though.
I do think that there is occassionally a role for this sort of thing. But personally, I get really annoyed at websites that take a lot of time to download - and audio and video would increase that time greatly.
BTW: there are already pay blogging services that have these features (and spell checking too Callie). But ... I use a freebie for class (and you probably won't hold that against me).
Oh, and as far as the weak comments go, I think this ignores the fact that somehow I got you people to read something that you ordinarily wouldn't have. I wish I could get extra credit for that too.
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