Favorite Blog Post

My favorite blog post for the semester is titled "the data cycle", posted on May 17th, 2010. I would say this is exemplary of the progress I have made blogging this year because it displays several important things that are important to blogging in our class: making connections between material and discussions and analyzing texts. I, in this post made the connection that I saw between the Kentucky Cycle we were reading in class and the topic of Mr. Bolos' blog post a few days before. I made this connection which I believe shows that I am thinking critically about the things I see and hear. I also used textual examples in my post, which I think is very important. One of the main things I took away from AIS this year is that if you want to make a claim, you have to bring evidence. And in the case of my blog I did just that. I think that over the course of the year, my focus in blogging has shifted. I began blogging about pretty arbitrary topics that I found interesting personally, and finished by writing posts that thought critically about our class. All in all the blogging experience was pretty unique, and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm looking forward to weighing in on a few discussions next year on the Am Stud Blog!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Sidenote

I had written the previous four posts over the course of the break but was forced to post them all now for a very interesting reason. I was told that the french government monitors the internet looking for anything descriminatory. I was told there could be fines and other minor consequences for posting hateful material on the internet. Although I do not feel as if what I said was offensive, I decided to wait until I got home to post these blogs. I think this just speaks to how strict France as a country has become, going as far as sensoring the internet, things that I thought only really happened in Communist countries like North Korea and China. This is not really intended to be a post but rather just something I thought should be shared along with the posts.

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