I have exhausted all my blog ideas, so for my final blog I want to reflect on blogs and their effectiveness as a medium. As my blogs have shown, there are endless forms of media in the world. These range from a simple text message to a hand written letter. What I have come to realize is that the most time consuming medium is typically the most effective at getting your point across. You don't send a text message to the person you just interviewed with for a reason- it shows no effort. However, sending them a hand written thank you letter is very impressive and shows that you really took the time to thank them. To that point, I wonder how effective blogs truly are. So many blogs are poorly and quickly written and hold no value. This dilutes the blogs that actually are thoughtful and well planned. Therefore, I believe that going forward the most effective mediums will always be newspapers and magazines, as they display significant effort. Anyone can make a blog online and publish a few posts, but it takes someone with skill and effort to publish in print. Although I read dozens, if not hundreds, of my peers blogs throughout this semester, I'm not sure if I remember any (except of course the infamous blog by Cemra/her cousin). This goes to show the ineffectiveness of blogs as a medium.
If I were to make recommendations on the blogs, I would suggest having the blogs be about a different topic/argument each week. I got sick of reading blogs about how much people love their cell phones and Facebook. I liked when students would make a bold claim and then others would attempt to dispute it. That is when the blogs were most effective. Therefore, it would have been interesting to see the debates that would have ensued if the professor made a statement each week and had students use their blog to argue for or against that statement.
Stay Classy Babson
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