Research Progress

While I was in a room full of fellow citizens doing their civic duty (jury duty), the vast majority of which were complaining about the fact they were there, it occurred to me that I've overlooked an area of research. I was reading The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman and he mentions the flattening effect that blogging has had because it gives everyone an opportunity to upload rather than download. In doing so, mass media has evolved because everyone, everywhere has the ability to be a reporter or at the very least, state their opinion and have readers. It's odd that it happened in this way as this course requires us to create and maintain a blog. As soon as I returned to my house, I googled NCLB blogs. Not surprisingly, there are an infinite number of blogs dedicated to the NCLB. The major problems that lie with blogs is their relevance and validity as a source due to their sometimes anonymous nature. With this in mind, I'll only utilize it as a source to enforce an established fact or if the blogger's credentials can be verified.