The last JOUR1111 lecture. Sadly we had a guest speaker. Don't get me wrong he was an interesting man but I was looking forward to hearing a bit of Bruce banter for the last time. But oh well, instead we learned about blogging in the real world. Aposed to Tumblr and what I consider blogging on here. To put it simple actually getting views and money for what you produce. Steve Morkington or better know as mister morks (really just morks) spent the hour session making crude jokes. As I look through my notes I see good definitions with examples that say things like "bum scratching" and "nose picking". I bit of potty humour never did any one any bad I guess. Well let's be honest here why does an internet blogger need to be professional? He's living the dream, what everyone else does in the pointless attempts to procrastinate, he makes money and fame from. Genius really.
He identified one of the beauties of blogging, you can be very specific with your interests and reach people who share such interests. No flicking through a news paper (although each have their own readership who chose it for specific uses). You like puppy memes? You want to hear about the war in the middle east? You want to know who's about to drop an album? Well there is something on the internet for you. It's the beauty of it really. You can adjust not only as a consumer you viewing but as a producer who you are getting to. Pushing your opinions and views onto the World into more likely to accept laps. Maybe there was some sense around the potty drivel after all.
From the beginning of the course we have been encouraged to just step out there and do it. Just put on the hat of a journalist and figure the rest out later. You don't get any where by sitting idly by, I think that was the beauty of what morks has done with his career. He has just jumped out there and filled a niche. Although this course keeps implicitly implying that journalism is on the decline, that is the traditional sense of journalism. It in fact I have realised has been to empower us to adapt to this new field of news and jump on the band wagon. Just get out there and leave the rest in the dust.
Good bye lazy Monday afternoon lectures, with these lovely ladies. We like coca-cola and getting caught in the rain. Needless to say we are all damsels in distress that really need to carry around some kind of cane to beat away young males who just can't resist us.
-You're squashing me
-But I love you!
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