Blogs: Getting (Inter)active

Blogging is a new world to me, and I’m still adjusting to it just as an infant does when first learning to walk, when they make their first steps into childhood and are flooded with new experiences and sensations every second of their bubbling lives.

People say never to lose that child-like wonder, and I’m making my best effort not to lose it by exploring what Web 2.0 technologies have to offer. As it turns out, blogging (if you hadn’t noticed) gives an instant publishing platform for anyone to use at any moment and at any place. It’s perfect for collaborating ideas and sharing, which is practical at all levels, regardless of who you are or what you think.

There are more than seventy million bloggers who populate the net, and in a world that is made up of somewhere close to 7 billion people, that means a mere one one-hundredth percent of the world’s population are a part of what collectively makes the blogosphere. Part of my belief in making news a fair and balanced place is grounded in the principle that awareness embarks people toward positive change, contrary to what “Stuff White People Like” has to say on Awareness.

If you’d like to know more about how blogs work—or about how to contribute or make your own—visit the Mobilizing Youth Resource Guide. According to how one site defines blogs, they are frequently updated individual Web pages where authors publish original content or recommend other valuable links.

I’ve only just found my legs and begun to explore the Web 2.0 world. My advice is: have at it.

Don’t forget to visit GreatDebater where you can read more, speak, and be heard. Thanks in advance for sharing your voice and telling the media establishment that you want a fair and balanced place for news.