Presentations

I thought my presentation went really well.  I clearly stated my thesis and my main points without getting side tracked.  Also I spoke loudly and clearly so that everyone could hear and understand me.  Some things I should have added in my presentation were a conclusion instead of just saying one have a separate slide for it.  Also I would have liked to add the pictures that I talked about on my images slide.

Blogging and my Essay

My plan to reference the book Blogging is to just use Rettenberg definition of blogging in my intro paragraph.  Most likely just an opening to what blogging is.  I may use what she says about someone using a blog to show identity after revising my essay, but for now just a definition of blogging.

I heart writing conferences!

After my groups writing conference I had a better understand of how I am going to look at the blog I am researching.  What are the areas that show my persons identity I got a lot of help on and completely changed half of my essay.  Although the identity of my blogger remains the same in my essay the way I'm looking at how her identity is displayed will now be written better in my essay... I hope.

Reasearch

So far researching my blog isn't too hard. I'm finding a lot of things to use for identity, the only problem I'm having is to analyze it.  Mostly because it’s hard for me to see below the surface.  The blog I have chosen however I think I will be able to analyze easier than I usually do.  The blogger’s personality is very clear and you can see their identity pretty easily, so I think I will be able to look at this and be able to analyze it easier than I normally would.  Now I must hope to meet the length requirements.

Reading...

I was searching for a passage to blog about then I decided that I am going to go back to chapter three of Blogging.  It is about strong ties and weak ties between people and how a group of strong ties can only get new information if someone in that group has weak ties with someone else (Rettberg page 60).  With that, it stated that any two people can be connected through six degrees of separation.  Which means any two people in the world can be connected by six other connections in between them.  I liked this idea just because thinking that any two people can be connected by at most six other connections was pretty cool.  Such as I am dating my girlfriend, she has a father who is in the military, he reports to the secretary of defense, and he then reports to the president of the united states.  I have just connected myself to President Obama through six degrees of separation.  It is a really cool idea that I agree with.

My Interests

My interests are few pretty much just video games (Starcraft 2), anything to do with computers and probably swimming; although now that I am out of highschool swimming isn't too huge anymore, but I still love to swim.  Outside of school I really do nothing because there is so little time for me with being enrolled in the AFROTC up in Seattle, a lot of my time is commuting which I have grown to hate over this past week.  Choosing a blog it would probably be in entertainment mostly video games, obviously, because that is pretty much my only interests besides computers so possibly blog on technology.
-TyPow

Who am I as a writer?

As a writer I am one who builds on the past.