For the BBC Internet blog of 2008, the language used was much more relaxed involving texting language, slang and even emotive images. This language is different to the academic language used within my own blogs. In the case of the blogs found on the BBC Internet site about the BBC Iplayer, there were hypertexts that allowed you to go to the blogs of other bloggers online and gather information about their opinions on the Internet. Hypertexts therefore encourage a greater sense of interactivity within the Internet. Mainly because they allowed you to communicate with others as well as using their opinion and information at your disposal. Unlike a book hypertexts are not linear and so you are not restricted to one particular opinion and so they offer “a better model of consciousness than linear storage systems” (lister, 2003: 25). Hypertexts enable you to find blogs of people from across the world offering diverse opinions information, which is quite simply not the case for a book. Hypertexts enable you to gather further information on something particularly confusing by a click of a button. At the same time hypertexts allow you to have a grater freedom within the Internet of any particular subject than the thematic restrictions that hyperlinks carry.
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A nice sized post.
ReplyDeleteDon't you think that this linking to others' blogs is another kind of networking that creates a community?
However, my experience is that the majority of links are to the commenter's own blog, which sometimes is only peripherally relevant. This is a way of upping their blog's standing with Google the search engine, because it measures 'hits' on the blog, and links to it.
This 'link farming' is also done by software robots that leave everything from gobledygook to filth (including such comments as "great post! your blog is very nice) on your comments. This is why blogger has those infuriating wiggly word thingys -and why we have a sign-in for this unit's homepage and therefore the pages linked to it (in the first year the forum got swamped with viagra ads!)