HW 11: World Wide Express

I chose to view Rconversation blog. Ideas, links, and occasional rants by Rebecca MacKinnon: journalist, blogger, and educator. The background is kind of plain. There is a maroon bar at the top which is really the only type of color on there. The URL is as listed: http://rconversation.blogs.com/. The topics include: journals of Bush, Democracy in China/Chinese bloggers, media, social justice. The style is in open conversation. They are just regular people with a strong opinion of the subject. The style of writing in informal. I think that Rebecca Mackinnon demonstrates a good understanding for this web blog. She says that the blog is a good way of communication for people around the world and in different countries. I expected to see people talking about global issues and people from different countries responding to them. It is hard to tell who is from what country however. Some people have a common name like Charles. There are not really any different languages which I was sort of expecting after I read “Making Global Voices Heard”. Of course, many will disagree with this assertion that speaking English can mean you are from a different country. There were not a lot of comments on these blogs, but there were some strong opinions on mostly the Chinese bloggers and the democracy in China.