How are we building our blogs?

As a class group we are building and maintaining seven blogs. This class blog will center all its attention towards theory and methodology. I will to post general comments on our readings.

What is a blog?

There are different sources that explain what is exactly a Blog. Following Howard Rheingolg's Project, Participatory Media Literacy, we will analyze blogs as a new and indispensable tool that transformed the website from readable to writable.
Basically a blog is a web page that is updated frequently by posts published in order of production. "Blog" is a contraction of the term "Web log" and tend to be a space of comments and news on a particular subject.
With the appearance of journalistic blogs, audiences turned to be more active in the consumption of new media. Most of the mass media producers are increasingly recognizing the importance of incorporating such tools in their daily practices. Three years ago, all the BBC Editors were asked to start and maintain journalistc blogs. The main reason for this decision, as they declared, was to open a new form of communication with their transforming audiences.

READING: Impact of new technologies in the production of news

The first readings will help us understand the impact of new technologies in the production of news. As a group, we were discussing the advantages and disadvantages of becoming ejournalists. Which are the main differences between "old fashion" journalism and current journalism practices? Why are we going to incorporate such theoretical and methodological questioning in this course? Why this is not a exclusively technical course?
Leading with the discussion pointed out in Deuze's and Gillmore's text we are centering our debate in what is going to be the future of print journalism. I expect some comments in this sense. Take a look at online version of the Washington Post, where do you find some examples of what Gillmore and Deuze pointed.