In my search on YouTube for video that relates to the topic of blogs, I stumbled across this clip from the Daily Show with Stephen Colbert discussing bloggers as a form of media. I find Stephen Colbert, as well as Jon Stewart, to be absolutely hilarious! I'm hesitant about posting this because I'm concerned that someone might find it offensive, but then I think "It's my blog - can't I post what I want?" There's the question of the day ... do you need to be concerned about someone finding something you post on your own blog offensive?
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Awesome! I love Jon and Steven, watch them all the time. I didn't see anything offensive. These two are known as satirists. What they are trying to do is compare old-style journalism and blogging journalism. They do point out a valuable lesson -- that bloggers ruin other people's lives by malicious blogging. Who verifies their statements. Hopefully, other bloggers will respond to misinformation and set the record straight.
Much like we teach our students, I think it depends upon the audience oyu are writing for. If your settings are "open" and anyone can read your blog (including your friends, neighbors, boss, kids, etc.) I might be a little reluctant to share everything. My blog is specifically for teachers at work, so I am cautious about what I share.
One criticism I hear about the Digital Native generation is that they are very "public". They post everything on the web and their MySpace and Facebook sites. As an employers, I worry about the judgement of a teacher or teacher canddiate who has a blog or MySpace site with pictures of them drinking or profanity-laced videos that I (or anyone) can access.
I am not saying that is the case with you(far from it, in fact) but just my weigh in on the thought of "offensiveness".
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