Life in blogs
- posted: 06 Nov. 2007
- scrolllifestyle@byui.edu
Blogs are everywhere and about everything, from Lost theories to politics to the recent callings of President Henry B. Eyring and Elder Quentin L. Cook.
Reporters followed the blogs after the conference session to check people’s reactions to the callings.
“As I’m sure you both can imagine, the Web sites are going crazy, people are blogging about both of you and [concerns people have],” a reporter from the Salt Lake Tribune said at the news conference between Saturday sessions of general conference.
Blogs are not only keeping reporters up-to-date, but are also a way for people to express their ideas and interests.
“My blog is kind of like my journal,” said Amanda Isbell, a senior studying English. “Sometimes it’s easier to type what is going on than write it all out. My only problem is that I edit it based on who might be reading it.”
Several students who recently returned from a conference in New York were told to obtain a knowledge of blogs and encouraged to start their own.
In the book Making the Journey, by Leila Christenbury, teachers are encouraged to stay current in media and teach blogs in the classroom because it gives students confidence in their writing.
Some teachers at BYU-Idaho have begun to have students start blogs also as a way to keep them knowledgable and teach them to express opinions.
The number of blogs available on the Internet is growing every day.
Wordpress.com, one blogging Web site, has 1,757,258 blogs on their account, with thousands updated each day. Blogger.com does not have information on their number of blogs. 
