What is a blog? What is a Utopia/ Distopia?

What is a Blog?

In the 10th grade English class we began a discussion about blogs which I found very interesting. The fact is I just began to realise how much I have used the Internet to find news or topics I'm interested about on blogs and on other websites. I have noticed that Newspapers, and even TV shows, have there own blog or have there own Twitter account. With the world of twitter and blogging this summer it was found that news had spread faster over the Internet than it did with newspapers. Reporters on TV called it a new era of news, and we saw it this summer with the death of Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Walter Cronkite and with the protests in Iran. I see a blog as a freedom to report an event as you see it, or to explain your thoughts on a particular topic which you may or might not enjoy. Even though the Internet is now such a huge part of our society, I still believe newspapers and magazines are still very important and useful as well, sometimes even more dependable. Now they are needed less and less because now we have something to explain our thoughts, faster, and easier to research on. The Internet, and the blog world.
In class we read an article about how blogs affect the world today. We also read about different types of blogs and I was amazed about how many things people want to talk about, and how they are able to make things interesting, "Blogs grab whatever they want with impunity—news, gossip, pictures, videos." Thats what I want to do in my blog, grab the information and questions I need to answer than make it interesting with my thoughts and ideas.

A Perfect World

Today in English class Mr. Tangen gave us a challenge. A challenge to create a world that is nothing like the world of today. On the first day of school (yesterday)he told us to create our own worlds and when each group showed the results of what they had thought out, it turned out that many were similar to Democracy, Communism, and many of the ideas that politicians have today. We were taught those ideas and principles which we have in our minds. "You are the new generation" our English teacher Mr. Tangen told us "yet when I asked you to create a perfect ideal world (utopia) you throw out the same old ideas from politicians of the past and of today (not in exact words)." I would like to see what our class can come up by the end of the semester, and whether or not it could be a world that would be a Utopia or a Dystopia. Hopefully not a Dystopia.

Utopia: An ideal perfect place, possibly in a social, political, or moral aspects.

Dystopia: A place where the condition of life is extremely bad. (opposite of Utopia)