Friday, 22 February 2008

Assignment - Blogs as Collaborative Tools

One of the assignments which are given to use is to write a short report about the advantage and disadvantage of blogging for supporting collaborative working.

I don’t really know much about blog because i just started using it, though I have read a lot of blog previously. So I can still tell a bit of the advantage and disadvantage while I was using it.

I will talk about the advantages of blogging then disadvantage later.
First of all blog is free, which means anyone can use it and making an account it easy too. For almost all the blog can be view publicly which anyone can see and make comment, there will be only a little which will use it privately.
There are no limits of what you can post. There are no rulers of which content that you can’t post, so the content could be anything that you want it to be.
You can upload picture, audio and video for other to view and they could comment on them.
Blogging is a good way to communicate with other people on the net and they can comment on the topics that you post. It is most useful if you were using it for journal which you can post your daily tasks.
You can also use blog to gather information, if there were any blog that may give you information about something that you were interested at.

The disadvantage for blogging is that you can post absolutely anything and anyone one can view it, no matter what age group you are in. This means if there were content which involve adult, violent etc. Then anyone also includes young children that can view it.
Some comment could be cruel and abusive because there are no limitations of what the view can comment. Some of them may argue on the topic they are discussing and leaving comment that may hurt other people feeling.
The topics of the blog that they post don’t always sound interesting for every viewer. You may need to update your blog from time to time for viewer to view your blog.

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