Hello everyone!
This is my very first post on my brand new blog, Yuza’s #Techtalk. I’ll try to keep this introduction brief, without cutting on the essential details. I want you to know where I’m coming from, and how this blog comes to existence.
First off, the confession.
I have always been a huge believer in Twitter. I joined the microblogging platform when it was still in its infancy, back in November 2007. Yes, 2007, like way before anyone, like anyone, have heard of #JustinBieber. Forming the foundation of my belief in Twitter is another belief – that blogging (in the traditional sense) is dying. People have less and less time to read lengthy (often narcissistic) posts. This is the age of micro-attention. The time has come for Twitter to reign.
Three years on, there are still lots and lots of blogs around. As I’ve predicted, I’m much less inclined to read the ‘people’ kind of blogs. However, I still read TUAW, AppleInsider, John Gruber’s Daring Fireball, David Pogue’s NYT blog and other ‘professional’ blogs. I believe that blogging has become ‘professionalised’, and personal rants should be reserved for a more private audience (i.e. Facebook ‘friends’ and the like).
That is why I have closed the idea of blogging for fun. I know it would not last.
So what is this blog about, you may ask.
I set up this blog because I have to. I’m currently enrolled in a subject called Net Communications. To pass the subject (read: to do well), I have to start a brand new blog hosted on WordPress.com. I’m given the freedom to define ‘my own niche’, but I still have to write some of my entries on things that the lectures and tutorials talks about.
These things include: ‘niche analysis’, ‘anatomy of a post’, ‘critical web design’, ‘intellectual property’, ‘comment cultures’, and ‘reflections’.
Although I write this blog because I have to, as always, I would try to give it my very best. After all, I’m writing about a topic that I care about. :-p
By the way, as a nerd, technology columnist and author of many books on technology, I thought Net Communications would be like a walk in the park.
I’m (very) glad that I was wrong. Talking about technology, social media and blogging in a university setting is very different to talking about the very same subject in daily life. From early in the semester, I was ‘slammed’ to unfamiliar terms, concepts, and realy cool geeks like Lev Manovich, Jose van Djick, and Danah Boyd. Go check out their respective websites to learn more about them.
Having said that, let’s now talk about technology. Welcome to Yuza’s #Techtalk.
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