Reflection is a critical step in making progress. In order to better reflect on my growth as a blogger and writer over the past few months, I’ve picked out 10 of the posts that I felt were most interesting. Here are the top ten with my take-aways in chronological order:1. Bold Growth, February 16, 2009: The earliest post, this one speaks to growth in blogging and touches on the critical question: what is the value of blogging? Having read a large amount of material on the subject, I took the descriptions that meant the most to me. It appeared that a weblog’s greatest strength was also its greatest weakness.
2. Blog Imagery, February 26, 2009: Another post on the elements of effective blogging, here I looked into the way “visual rhetoric” adds to the appeal of a blog. I analyzed a blog that had a strong appeal and illustrated how the imagery of a blog can create a kind of ethos when blended with text, which is critical for any blogger to understand.
3. Niched Media, February 23, 2009: With the ways in which we interact with media rapidly changing, the question of what makes a good media product hasn’t been more important. This post goes into a some of the philosophy and idealism behind the media.
4. Tip Towards Buyer Power, March 2, 2009: Blogs that I feel are of the highest quality are able to integrate interesting research. This post does just this, posing an answer to the question of how the “new economy” has changed and led to a more powerful consumer.
5. Technology Free Riders, March 3, 2009: This post again builds and goes beyond the required reading. I muse on the process of growth that internet technology has led us through and am cautious as to how well future predictions can truly hold up.
6. In Economist We Trust, April 2, 2009: This post goes into the foundations that led to the success of an magazine also published on the net known as The Economist. It addresses the critical features that make this publication such a trusted source of valued information.
7. Extended Mind and My Generation, April 6, 2009: The question of how the internet has changed the way we think is crucial in our current culture. Now, as we transition into new modes of thinking, is the time to investigate the changes that have occurred and the resulting costs and benefits. This post puts together some of the strongest arguments, empirical research and philosophy behind these changes.
8. Wisdom of Crowds, April 13, 2009: The idea of “collective intelligence” has been discussed in economics for a while. This post goes into some current research in this field and an application of it. This is likely to have a strong potential for the way we all interact in the future and one of the largest changes the internet has fostered.
9. Internet Audience, April 13, 2009: Addressing some of the past research on the way we interact with the internet, it cuts down and organizes the most interesting information on the subject. The psychology of reading online is different than through book reading and this has implications on the way in which internet texts should be constructed.
10. Social Media Musing, April 20, 2009: A current hot debate is the possibility of a web 2.0 bubble. This post was more personal than a lot of the other posts, so I think it adds a little different flavor. I also feel this was the best approach I could take to find the value behind social media.
2. Blog Imagery, February 26, 2009: Another post on the elements of effective blogging, here I looked into the way “visual rhetoric” adds to the appeal of a blog. I analyzed a blog that had a strong appeal and illustrated how the imagery of a blog can create a kind of ethos when blended with text, which is critical for any blogger to understand.
3. Niched Media, February 23, 2009: With the ways in which we interact with media rapidly changing, the question of what makes a good media product hasn’t been more important. This post goes into a some of the philosophy and idealism behind the media.
4. Tip Towards Buyer Power, March 2, 2009: Blogs that I feel are of the highest quality are able to integrate interesting research. This post does just this, posing an answer to the question of how the “new economy” has changed and led to a more powerful consumer.
5. Technology Free Riders, March 3, 2009: This post again builds and goes beyond the required reading. I muse on the process of growth that internet technology has led us through and am cautious as to how well future predictions can truly hold up.
6. In Economist We Trust, April 2, 2009: This post goes into the foundations that led to the success of an magazine also published on the net known as The Economist. It addresses the critical features that make this publication such a trusted source of valued information.
7. Extended Mind and My Generation, April 6, 2009: The question of how the internet has changed the way we think is crucial in our current culture. Now, as we transition into new modes of thinking, is the time to investigate the changes that have occurred and the resulting costs and benefits. This post puts together some of the strongest arguments, empirical research and philosophy behind these changes.
8. Wisdom of Crowds, April 13, 2009: The idea of “collective intelligence” has been discussed in economics for a while. This post goes into some current research in this field and an application of it. This is likely to have a strong potential for the way we all interact in the future and one of the largest changes the internet has fostered.
9. Internet Audience, April 13, 2009: Addressing some of the past research on the way we interact with the internet, it cuts down and organizes the most interesting information on the subject. The psychology of reading online is different than through book reading and this has implications on the way in which internet texts should be constructed.
10. Social Media Musing, April 20, 2009: A current hot debate is the possibility of a web 2.0 bubble. This post was more personal than a lot of the other posts, so I think it adds a little different flavor. I also feel this was the best approach I could take to find the value behind social media.
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