Briggs – Journalism Next: Chapter 2

Fairfax, VA — In chapter 1, Briggs talked about RSS feeds and HTML for building and creating websites. In Chapter 2, he begins by discussing the importance of blogs in the journalism field.

Briggs claims that every college journalist should start a blog before they begin their career, and that it’s a great source of practice for whats to come. Not only are blogs simple to use and easy to set-up, they’re ingeniously interactive.

“Blogs have forever changed the way that information is shared in our society.” (Briggs, 42).

I myself have just jumped onto the blog bandwagon. Previously I was a little hesitant about sharing ideas and opinions over the internet, but I later came to the realization that…well it’s okay. In fact, most of these posts will more than likely just be about the latest news and required assignments for my communication class, thus my anxiety of sharing personal opinions is almost a moot concern. Alas, here I am, blogging away…It’s quite fun really and I expect this to become a regular thing. If you’re reading this and find the tool interesting, I urge you to take the dive as well and conjure up a little magic on your own blog — it’s simple!