Inspired by bloggers

In 2010 I came to Ball State University as an exchange student from Tajikistan to study journalism. I still remember my first class, it was about social media and how powerful blogging could be for future journalists and reporters. I didn’t even know what blog meant, so I had to look it up. After that class I felt in love with this system of online writings; Today I blog about what I think on certain issues and link other sources to what I write. 

Blog is a powerful writing technic that could be used in multiple ways. Some of my friends who blogs say, it’s like a diary for them. Personally for me it’s not only a diary, it’s a place where I archive my thoughts, writings and let others know about what I think on certain global issues such as health, international wars, globalization, peace, humanitarian and so on. 

Since I want to become an international correspondent I follow those who are already successful in this area of journalism such as Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn who both are New York Times journalists. For me it’s interesting to see what Kristof writes and reports for the Times and then turns and blogs about the same issues.http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/60441.Nicholas_D_Kristof/blog When this happens we can see two different reactions. For instance, in journalism there are ethical laws that they have to follow when reporting or writing but with blogs, it’s a different story. You own your own thoughts and the only ethical issue you have to deal is what you say.

According to Scientific American journal blogging is good for our health. As it this article report: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-healthy-type/ blogging helps those who blog with their memory and sleep and boosts their immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.So blog while you can.