HW 14: Ito/ Denton Transitionrama

When reading the “Japanese Blogger Champions Internet Democracy” Joi Ito interview (Kline and Burstein 143-150), I found myself agreeing to many of the things that Ito had to say. For example, when Ito says "Once you enable people to have a voice, most people are more interested in talking to each other than they are blindly consuming something that is created by a machine, I think in all its form creativity is ging to become much more driven by the people" (Kline, 145), I agree what Ito says with the fact that once someone is able to openly speak about things, then it pulls in other people who also become interested with talking to people and not having to worry about who they are or what they think. Along the same lines, one of the things that I even remember discussing in class is that blogging is something you do on your own, not something you get paid to do, as Ito discusses on page 145. In addittion, as to the change that Ito talks about on pg. 145, he goes into talking about how it seems as if people follow each other and everyone likes the same things, eventually people branch out and move onto bigger and better things. In conclusion, blogging is a way that people express themselves and become moreindependant, "its allows people to find each other, find niches, and find communtitieis" (Kline, 145), I agree with the things that Ito has to say and find much of it very interesting to read about from someone elses perspective.