Week 2 Topic 3 (The last one...for this week!)

Talking In Blog Or Face To Face?!

Navigation - Again just like the forums, blogs are easy peasy to work yourself around. With a kind of bulletin board showing who has posted something and on what topic, it's very simple to find a opinion on a subject you also have interest on. With the actual blog page and the Dashboard page, they are easy to use and navigate right from the start.

Expression - Thats what blogs are designed for really isn't? They are, thinking about it, the main way to virtually express your opinion and expression to issues already raised or even as a fresh topic. Blogs are a certain way to get your point across, instead of trying to constantly butt in when speaking face to face.

Interaction - Again, like the forums, blogs allow you to comment and write back to people about what they have had to say on a subject. As it's all written down you can relate back to what has been said and you would learn more instead of forgetting what was said as you can't remember word for word.

Time - With also a week time slot for each task and topics to discuss, the time management is easier. As mentioned with the forums, the tasks and dicussion can be had any time of the week. Whether at 7am or 11pm, you can carry on with the discussion instead of being restricted to a hour time slot for a class.

Authority and Identity - With simularities to the forums, you don't have a leader of the group as everyone on a blog is displayed the same way. However there can be a sense of a team leader if one individual was posting at a constant rate while others only posted once or twice a week.

Speech/Writing - One of the main strengths you have with a blog is that you can focus on one point during the conversation. This includes the use of colour and text style, fonts etc. So if you want to high light I key point you want to rasie then you can can the text in different ways so readers have the same undersanding.

With all these unique features and advantages blogs have, they are becoming more popular around the world for those who just want to raise a point or give a personal opinion.