Thoughts about the interview with Scott Rosenberg Bloggerson Blogging

What do English/ History/ Theatre majors have to do with computers, web programming or software engineering? I found it personally very interesting that journalist, Scott Rosenberg, with BA in English and history from Harvard wrote the entire book about the software engineering and, more than that, now he writes code himself and creates his own web sites. Today, computers and more particularly World Wide Web play such a huge role in modern society that eventually it forces people with non-computer related education start to learn code and wonder about process of website development. Today, all media seems to be revolving around on-line communities. Writers and journalists start to blog using computers and barely take their pen or pencil to write something on the piece of paper. This tendency seem both scary, and exciting to me. On the one hand it’s frightening that world has been changing so much giving no clue where these changes will take us, however, I think, there is a big chance of world becoming a much better place after all of the innovations in fields like sciences and engineering in the nearest future. I think that our necessity in computers and technologies today forces us to get familiar with them and as a result become more intelligent, innovative and creative people.

Another, completely different from the previous, but not less interesting issue being touched by Rosenberg is the “chess game” in blogging. In his interview he says “Increasingly I see ‘Let's post one side of the story and see if that flushes out the other guys.’ I'm not saying it's unethical; maybe it's even more Web-native and transparent. But it leaves me wondering, when I read a post, ‘Is this something the writer believes to be true? Or is it the opening move in a chess game?" I was not certain about this tactic being used in order to create news in the media. I knew that there are a lot of discrepancies between different media sources. However, I didn’t have a clue that some of the “fake” news are intended only for provoking actions from another source of media. Lesson being learned – do not trust all of the news/blog/articles being posted on the web.