Blog:

According to Safko (2010, p. 145),
A blog - or web log- is a sit that is maintaned by an individual with regular entries or posts that include commentary, thoughts, and ideas, and may contain photos, graphics, audio, or video.

Safko. L. (2010). The Social Media Bible: tactics, tools, and strategies for business success. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Thursday, 14 June 2012

Bloggers' problems

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/11712-congress-asks-doj-to-investigate-%E2%80%9Cswat-ing%E2%80%9D-on-conservative-bloggers
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/25/opening_act_blog_about_brett_kimberlin_day.html

Brian Koenig "In efforts to intimidate and suppress the speech of prominent conservative bloggers, opponents are implementing a decade-old technique called “SWAT-ing,” which involves prank callers phoning law-enforcement authorities and reporting a violent crime at someone’s home. The pranksters generally camouflage their actual phone numbers — by making them appear to originate from the victim’s home — leading SWAT teams to be dispatched to a person’s residence."
“The use of SWAT-ting as a harassment tool is apparently not new, but its use as a tool for targeting political speech appears to be a more recent development,” Chambliss wrote. “The emerging pattern is both disturbing and dangerous.
SWAT-ing has been used on conservative bloggers which they are visited by the SWAT claiming that they had killed or hostage in their house.
Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas) also joined in the fray, telling Holder he is “very afraid of the potential chilling effects that these reported actions may have in silencing individuals who would otherwise be inclined to exercise their Constitutional right to free speech.” 
Seem like there are reasons SWAT are used against conservative bloggers. Bloggers faces a lot of problem of laws and others actions by protesters. 

In the other issues such as errors in writing blogs has become a problems and bloggers struggle to re-correct the mistakes.

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/2012/06/food_bloggers_wrestle_with_onl.php


These food bloggers has faced critics on the errors of language used and spelling in their blogs. Blogger than said that it is a freedom space to express their opinions and ideas that are errors does not mean anything. This has made some of the bloggers aware of the problems and look for editors before posting their comments or post. Some bloggers thinks that it is unnecessary to hired an editor to correct errors, as this is their own post.

Bloggers faced a lot of problems while b
logging their ideas. Is it necessary to consider language or spelling errors even a conservative opinion posts a mistake that others should take actions not only to criticize but also to have threat towards these bloggers? 

1 comment:

  1. In my opinion, it is definitely not necessary to hire a editor or someone else to edit the post before posting a comment or new post. Blog is a privte space where let public write and express their idea, expression or doing business. Since it is a personal space for everyone, it is not necessary to do so. Just let it what should it to be, let the post become how original it is. Ths is what we called originality of content.

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