I sit here in the newsroom the day before the last session of Online Journalism and it’s empty, except for the hung over mumbling Kieran who forgot to check his emails. And for the second time this term I am gutted that a module has ended.
Yeah I’ll geek up. I will admit that I am upset about the fact I have to go on holiday and won’t be in the newsroom writing blogs every Thursday and Friday, compiling top tens, writing about music and asking questions to people who have either been in or are still in the industry. To me that is better than any holiday laying around at home watching the sun rise and set while I become absurdly good at the new Call Of Duty because I have nothing better to do with my days.
What I really enjoyed about the module was the constant practice of writing over and over, posting blogs all the time and in the last two weeks I have not been able to rest because a blog every day had to be done.
In the module I have learnt many new things to do with the blogosphere. My whole conception of blogs has changed now because of this. Before all I could imagine was lonely bored guys, or worse, egotistical, fashion driven, self obsessed, narcissistic, 14-year-old, ‘I can’t wait till I am on super sweet 16’, Perez Hilton obsessed girls, sat blogging their pointless drivel clogging up the internet about how ‘they just hate the new Bioshock game’ or how ‘Britney all of a sudden got fat and bald’. Which pointlessly is just a poor quality regurgitation of their favourite glossy magazine.
No, actually the blogosphere is filled with quality journalists and interesting people posting about things you could actually care about, even if there are still people blogging about their cat ‘goma’ and how it sleeps on her laptop. Unbelievably this trash has got adverts on it, which means this blog gets readers!
Anyways, if this tripe can get an audience then through this module, I feel that maybe I could try and break into the blogosphere, and if not at least it is something I can do to keep my writing up. I think I will keep my music blog ‘Scratching the Surface From underneath’ or I’ll just keep trying to develop my own style which has nothing to do with Charlie Brooker at all, not one bit…. Honest.
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