Frustrated...

I wanted to check my blog dashboard quickly with the few minutes left in my 7th hour planning period but somehow forgot that Blogspot, and all things bloggy, is summarily blocked on campus. So, this post is really to remind me to blog about this topic more extensively ASAP.


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Blogging? That's so 2008.

"Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_blogging_matures

The study reported in this article might explain why so many of us in this class haven't done much blogging in the past (my emphases):

• "A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly brief, and mobile."
• "The study . . . found that 14 percent of Internet youths, ages 12 to 17, now say they blog, compared with just over a quarter who did so in 2006. And only about half in that age group say they comment on friends' blogs, down from three-quarters who did so four years ago. Pew found a similar drop in blogging among 18- to 29-year-olds."
• "The Pew survey found that nearly three-quarters of 12- to 17-year-olds who have access to the Internet use social networking sites, such as Facebook. That compares with 55 percent four years ago."
• "All of that rings true to Sarah Rondeau, a freshman at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. 'It's a matter of typing quickly. People these days don't find reading that fun,' the 18-year-old student says."

Yikes.

New Media in the news today

Here are two articles in the news today about New Media:

"Astronauts finally get Internet access in space" -- including the first Tweet from space!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_hi_te/us_space_station_internet

"Pope to priests: Go forth and blog" -- Thou shalt get online.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_pope_cyberpriests