HW 2

After reading Burstein’s twelve key ideas in "From Cave Painting to Wonkette" (Kline and Burstein xxi-xxvi) number six really intrigued me. I was surprised to read that bogging had actually been more common in other countries as opposed to the USA. What really shocked me is not the idea that blogging is going global but that it didn’t originate here in the USA. This makes me wonder that if other types of networking and such are more popular in other countries as well. It was also said that the most influential blogs are from other countries as well which I did not find that shocking. In other countries living is more difficult and I can definitely see how blogs by people from different countries could be very moving and inspirational. After reading Burstein’s ideas I am now more interested in reading blogs from the countries in which blogging is more popular than here. As mentioned in the text, a month after a Chinese friend had predicted that blogs would have more impact on revolutionizing China and bringing it fully into the modern world than any other influence, it seemed to happen (Kline and Burstein’s xxiii). This just goes to show that when someone expresses his or her ideas it has an impact on what actually goes on in the world. It is nice to see that people take other’s ideas into consideration.