What Am I Blogging About?

It is week four and portfolio time in EL 236: Writing for the Internet. My curiosity has been peeked, my online presence made, and I continue to Look for the Words. An objective for Writing for the Internet is to effectively use the various resources for writing made possible by the web.  Along with maintaining this blog, I am tweeting for the first time, a thing I never imagined myself doing. How surprised I was to find value in Twitter's 140 character limit. I even learned how to use hash tags and condense URLs. So, feel free to partake of my bite-sized thoughts. Or if it is depth you seek see my entry on writers' woe.

Blogs and micro-blogs exist to communicate, and I am learning to keep the conversation open by listening and responding to my readers.  Pistol Penchant, an entry about men and women's differing tastes, prompted a decent discussion and portrayed my ethos.  I got to talk with classmate Katy about Switchfoot's song "Love is the Movement" on her blog. Bethany and I (I am the anonymous contributor. For whatever reason, my name didn't display.) weighed the pros and cons of creative writing books. I even divulged my guilty listening pleasure on Jennifer's entry No Theme, No Problem.

In attempts to bring aesthetic quality and visual entertainment to my blog, I incorporated images and video (all borrowed responsibly):

Wait for It ... Ah-Ha!

Woe is Me, A Writer I Will Not Be

My entry titles, along with their content, aspire to originality.  One good example would be God or Vessel?: Unforseen Roles in Professional Journalism.

Beyond blogging, I learned to:

Edit a Wikipedia page on African Art.

Keep looking, there's more to come....