HW 14: Blogging... Copyrighting??

As a result of reading the Joi Ito Interview “Japanese Blogger Champions Internet Democracy” in Blog!: How the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture by David Kline and Dan Burstein my view of blogging has changed a bit. For example, our last blog post had to be about whether blogs were better for business or communication, I chose business. However, I now see that communication is just as important. As an illustration, Ito says “You can do what you want but you’re in my living room, so be respectful because I have to take care of this place.” (Kline and Burstein 144) After all a blog really is your own space to choose what is said and what to throw out. In addition I liked how Ito talked about copyrighting things that people put on the blogs. Specifically when he said that you would be able to give some of the copyrights away if you wanted. Although it is true copyrighting is something that is still up in the air about blogs and is tough subject to pin on things like blogs. In conclusion I enjoyed Ito’s interview and agree with a lot of what he said and I am thinking of going to look at his blog!

Lindsay