Blogging Around The World

I chose to view North Korea Zone. It looks like a normal blog with a picture at the top of a statue. It seems that the same two people blog on this page. Michael Rank and Timothy Savage. The information they blog is informal in a sense and it also talks about different issues. Some topics are “Who Does Your Nails,” talking about how Korean’s have been doing nails in the US for years. Also they talk about flood damage, and they have links to interesting photos that are a photo gallery in North Korea. Basically Rebecca talks about how the blogs are controlled and owned by communist parties. I don’t feel they are owned by communist parties anymore, maybe they were at first, but this blog seems to have a mind of it’s own and the writers certainly speak freely about how they feel or what they find. Reading this chapter made me believe that blogs in other countries were monitored and they didn’t have freedom of speech. This blog demonstrates a little bit of a different view for me. I feel like Timothy and Michael speak out real situations going on in North Korea and they are also displaying photographs, and providing more information. Someone who would disagree with me may say that this blog isn’t written only by Timothy and Michael, but it is monitored and possibly changed/controlled by others.