Inspirational use of blogger

 1) The blog allows the blogger to express the love of writing and expressing opinions, or for sharing knowledge about a hobby or an interest.                             
 2)The blog allows us to communicate with others through their personal blog.
 3) Through blog, you can also learn many things that others share about themselves and apply on us.                         (eg: Maybe when they have some kind of joint or bone illness, they will post it on their blog and they will also tell us what kind of medicine they use and how long it takes them to recover.)
 4) When we are depressed, blog is a place where you can express yourself and get comments from your friends and many others and find way to solve it through it.

Dangers of blogger

  1) A danger related  to blog is the exposure that blog can creates. In some cases, people blog about their personal lives and identities without realizing that there are people out there with bad intentions who might wish to steal their identities or cause harm to them or their families.
  2) Another danger lies in the predators that target bloggers, blogging sites and web pages. There is hacking going on right now that has never been seen before.  There is no reduction in spam, personal scams and other criminal enterprises. We might think thapeople are not attractive to spammers and crooks, but given the sophistication of their malware toolkits, spammers and criminals can target hundreds, if not thousands of blogs and small groups every day.
  3) One serious danger comes from writing and interacting with others while under the influence of alcohol, mood altering substances and emotional disorder.
  4) The final danger lies in ignorance of the fact that bloggers , like any other writers, have to build reliability of fact and credibility in content. Blogging may seem like an extension of our home and personal life, but bloggers truly are as criminally or civilly liable for wrongdoing as any other publishing entity.

Cyber Wellness Tips

  1) Have your own Cool identity.
  2) Practice Selective Disclosure of information.
  3) When registering an online application that others can view (eg: Twitter, Blog), use an alternate account instead of your personal account.
  4) When being asked to reveal your home address, remember not to reveal your postal code as it will reveal the exact block in Singapore.
  5)  Do not post photos of yourself, your friends or your family.

Case study

         
            Blogging can get one fired.                                                                                                                              
           The most famous example, because it involved a big and powerful company, was the case of Mark Jen, an employee of the leading online search engine, Google.  

           When Jen joined Google, he created a blog, ninetyninezeros, which he described as “a personal journal of my life at google.” The blog, written in his spare time, described what he did at Google, the orientation process, the way the company was managed, and other details about the experience of working at Google.

           One of Jen’s posts dealt with Google’s system of benefits, including free meals and on-site doctors, and with the upside and downside of this way of distributing benefits: “Every 'benefit' is on site so you never leave work… between all these devices designed to make us stay at work, they might as well just have dorms on campus that all employees are required to live in” (Weinman, 2005). He also mentioned that Google’s health care plan was not as good as Microsoft’s (his previous employer). Google’s management felt that this and other posts on Jen’s blog were problematic, for the leaked to the public the inner workings of the company.

         Jen’s employers asked him to remove from his blog any posts that could be construed as giving away company secrets, and he did so. Nonetheless, even after he had removed that material, Jen was fired two days later, and, as he wrote on his blog, “either directly or indirectly, my blog was the reason” (Weinman, 2005).

        Consquently, the firing of Mark Jen caused great dismay throughout the blogosphere, where bloggers worried that they might be next to lose their jobs over an ill-advised comment about work. And the biggest problem was that no one seemed to know what the rules were when it came to blogging about work – not even the people who had been fired for it (Weinman, 2005).

Interesting fact of Blogger

1) Blogging technology gave users a huge variety of templates, an easy-to-navigate five-minute registration process, and free web hosting.
2)Pyra labs made a revolutionary insight that made blogging very popular by removing the common technological requirements of web publishing, namely graphic design, simple coding, that made it difficult for computer illiterates to use.
3) Blogs range in scope from individual diaries to political campaigns, media programs, and businesses.
4)Blogger was lauched by Pyra Labs but was later bought by Google in 2004.