I choose to write about the blog Hit&Run , this is a blog about different laws that are being enforced. It shares how they are affecting us. My favorite blog post on Hit and Run was Driving While White . It was a great blog about the new laws that Arizona is enforcing on illegal immigrants. It gave his personal experience to help everyone understand what this law was really going to mean for everyone.
I don’t really know as if this blog really takes a particular political stand. However, it sure does give us an opinion. The blog also uses many different sources including some personal experiences as a source which really I thought helped me as a reader understand what was going on. I thought it was a great aspect of the blog. I thought the information presented in this blog was much more creative than those reports written within our local newspaper. The blog caught my attention and wanted me to keep reading. I wanted to find out about what was going on.
Although I thought this blog was great, and it caught my attention very easily. I did think that the blogs design itself could have been slightly better. I thought the design kind of was a little bit of everywhere, and the blog was too random.

Yes, were a family now… All were missing is the marriage, and well that is coming in July… July 9th to be exact. Were getting ready to order the invitations, and get addresses and everything together to get those sent off to everyone…. Hopefully, we don’t forget anyone. We also are safely home with Nicholas, and we are taking in for his two month check up here next week! His baby shower is on Saturday, and last week he had his photos taken for his birth announcements. So we are also in the process of waiting for those to arrive so that we can send those out to family and friends. So, we are going to be busy with addressing, and we will be spending lots of money on stamps, stamps, stamps. Well, anyways, thats all for now, just wanted to give you all a quick update. Oh yeah, and if you want to look at his pictures that he had taken for the birth announcements, you can veiw them at Photos Also, I have not updated his page lately, but I am planning on doing so here within the next few days…. We were having problems with our internet. So, be expencting those on Filed in Engagement, Family, Love Around The Globe, Marriage, Mike, Nicholas at 6:13 am

What do you think? Are bloggers and journalists the same, and should they have the same rights? Should bloggers have the same protection that a journalist has? I think that although the two are much alike there is a difference. A blogger could be anyone off the road, as a journalist is someone who works for a news reporting agency. Although the two may write about the same topics, the journalist has the right to go to special events and interveiws to get information about the topic. The journalist also has an extra sheild protection, preventing them from having to share where they received information for their news reports. Considering all these things about bloggers and journalists I have to lean towards believing that a blogger should remain to not have the same rights as a journalist. If the United States were to allow bloggers to be protected in the same way that a journalist is, this would give anyone on the street the right to say, “I am a blogger, I don’t have to share where I recieved my information.” Which, I believe would soon become a bigger and bigger issue. It would give any blogger the right to write anything about anyone, true or not and be covered. Within politics this would have the biggest impacts.
Consider a few scenarios:
Scenario One: a reporter for a major newspaper reports, using anonymous sources, on a falsified government document. When the government agency attempts to force him to reveal his source, he refuses… and is protected by a “shield law” that he does not have to reveal those sources. A blogger breaks the exact same story at the exact same time. Should he receive the same protection? Would your answer change if you found out the blogger had been running a news and politics blog for years? What if she’d never posted a news story before but stumbled onto this one?
I think that in this case the blogger should still not be covered under the same protection. Although the blogger has been doing the job for years they are not a journalist. The journalist I believe deserves the protection as their stories are more publicized, the person could be in danger if they some information was to be shared about who told them about the falsified government document. However, no one is going to listen to the blogger as much about who they heard from.
Scenario Two: A blogger applies to receive press credentials so he can get into a political event. He is denied, because he’s “not a journalist,” even though many reporters are allowed in who have fewer readers than the blogger. Is that fair? Would it matter if, instead of news bloggers and newspaper reporters the same situation arose at a fashion show with a writer for a fashion magazine and a fashion blogger?
I believe this is a fair incident. If a everyone who wanted to go to one of these events was allowed to present themselves as a blogger to be able to go, then everyone in the United States would be able to start a blog and apply to go to the event as a blogger. I believe the same would also be fair in the fashion show event. There has to be some kind of limitations to who qualifies to be a journalist/reporter or anyone and everyone would have to be given the same priveleges as a journalist.

Diigo and Flickr are both ways of sharing your personal favorites with others. The only difference is one is to share your favorite websites while the other is to share your favorite photos. I think they are both great tools for people who spend a lot of time on the internet. I personally think that flickr is a better tool, as many more people enjoy sharing their personal photos with others than what they do websites. I have used other websites for photo sharing. The one I am most familiar with is myphotoalbum. This a website that you can buy membership to… I personally think that the free flickr website is just as good. The only advantage to using myphotoalbum is that you can also buy products with your images on them. As for me using flickr and Diigo. I may continue to use flickr. However, Diigo is not something I would see myself using often. Diigo is however a great tool for those people who like to share websites.

Before starting the class CITS 220 I had never heard the term web 2.0 before. If I were to tell someone who didn’t know what web 2.0 was I would tell them that it is a way to interact with others on the internet. It can include, blogging as well as social networking sites. Social Networking sites can allow you to do some of the following things; talk to others, post pictures to share, share websites that you like, and play games together. Yes I participate in sites that are web 2.0 sites they include; facebook, myspace, my blog, twitter, diigo, linkden, formspring, and

http://www.blog.facebook.com A blog about facebook and the changes that they are making to facebook. Also includes information about apps.
http://tuaw.com The unofficial apple blog. It is about those apple products that already exsist and those that may be released soon.
http://fishingfury.com The blog about fishing. Has tips and tricks.