Surfing the net

In these weeks I browsed the net a lot and I came across many blogs! Well, you can find whatever you want: sport, music, television, politics; you have the embarrassment of riches!
Variety is good but at the very beginning I felt bewildered: the blogosphere is a sort of world aside where everything is fast – the time to click on an hyperlink and you are connected with the rest of the world! I was amazed when I found out that maybe blogs are the most updated source of information: they’re daily updated while the daily news are sometimes already outdated!

Another important question I’d like to deal with is the kind of information. Of course there are some official blogs but in general I found that information is treated in unconventional ways. You can hear many voices so that you can build up your own opinion. The most evident case in Italy (maybe not only in Italy) is the one of Bebbe Grillo. However, there are a number of these examples. For instance yesterday I visited an American blog where a girl made some observations about the emergency measures adopted by Bush in California compared with the ones he adopted in Louisiana, interesting, isn’t it?

As to the language I think it’s very informal. In the posts there are no linking adverbial: words flow as in a spoken discourse. Questions are very common because in this way the writer creates the impression that he is talking to the reader. Moreover, writers use colloquial lexis (slang, swearing…) and abbreviations. You can often find exclamations marks, dots and dashes. Far from being a standard, formal written text in blogs there is interactiveness (for example see the hyperlinks) and a sort of shared situation as in a conversation (the blog becomes a meeting place where people can exchange their opinions!).

Finally, the third element I’d like to point out is layout. Blogs are a question of style! You convey a message not only through the contents or through the way you write but also through how you present it! Since the purpose is to catch the audience’s attention, blogs are generally very appealing, colourful and full of images.

Let me know what do you think about it…
Stefania

This is me

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Hi everybody!This is me… or better, a representation of me! I’m Stefania!

I chose Emma Bovary, the protagonist of Madame Bovary by Flaubert for a number of reasons. First of all because I love reading, especially French books. Secondly because Gustave Flaubert is one of my favourite writers and I like French literature in general. And finally because I really like Emma and I find that we share some characteristics; specifically I’m a “reveuse” like her.Well - to prevent equivocal interpretations of my personality - I’d like to add that I’ve nothing to do with her insane obsessions and that I’m not going to kill myself with the arsenic during the course!Another salient aspect of my character is the fact I love children! I work in two kindergartens where I “teach” English to five-year-old children. I really have fun working with them because they are always enthusiastic about everything you do!

I recommend you to visit my personal website: http://www.magicoalvis.it/stefania. There is just a short presentation of me (I put the one we wrote for Gillian the first year at university) and some photos.If you are interested in nature, hiking… and stuffs like that, I suggest you to visit the entire site because it’s about our region and all the things you can visit and do!The second site I recommend is: http://www.guardian.co.uk . When I have some free time I like having a look at the main news. You can find not only articles but also interviews and reviews and there is a big archive too which serves as a sort of “historical memory”.

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