Getting Comfortable with Blogging

I am really getting into blogging. I love the design aspect of creating your own background. My background is for now anyways, a movie theatre curtain because my blog is about old Hollywood movie stars. I would like to create a collage of pictures and movie posters for a background, have the Hollywood sign in black and white or possibly Grauman's Chinese Theatre which is now sadly being called the TCL Chinese theatre.

I like having a place to express my opinions about a topic of interest to me. Even if sadly, they may not be viewed by anyone. However, my blog will forever be out in the open void and someday, somewhere, somehow they might be read.

Learning to Blog

Blogging has been an experience. For my age and the importance of social media, I should be an expert.

Everything looks foreign to me. I don't know the lingo, I'm worried about identity theft and not having an appealing enough blog.

I will soon be learning everything their is to know about blogging from lynda.com. They have great tutorials and far more details than blogger provides(Sorry, but it's true.)

I guess I can only improve from here(Right?)

Wurman's The Business of Understanding

Richard S. Wurman's article The Business of Understanding spoke to me as it must have to everyone. I thought Wurman's ideas were relatable to students and teachers. As a college student, I've been able to reflect on my high school education and I can now admit to being guilty of not asking questions. I flew under the radar and never asked for clarification and denied myself the opportunity to learn and grow.

I agreed with many of Wurman's views, but could also find areas to argue and disagree with. My first disagreement with Wurman is where he wrote about being unpopular at meetings, "because an admission of ignorance wasn't the behavior that was rewarded in our society." This is where I differ in opinion, I cannot fathom a society that would reject questions where education has been the cornerstone of American progression. Maybe it's a generational difference, but I've noticed that my professors ask and encourage questions and or comments.

We live in a knowledge and information based society were asking and acquiring new information is helpful, but expected. This semester I am taking COM 351 Business Communication, and now more than ever an effective communicator is in high demand. "Data and information, although words used interchangeably in our language and our culture, are not the same. Not only does information have more value, it takes more work to create and communicate. For all the talk of this being the Information Age, it would be more accurate to call it, instead, the Age of Data." From this quote from Wurman's article I have deducted that most people would rather have you explain the data instead of interpreting it yourself. Further adding more weight to my claim that communicating effectively trumps out data.