Hw 19: Web of Influence

The paragraph that I decided to write about was the last paragraph on page 91 of the chapter. The text explores how bloggers make people more aware of the causes and issues, and how it is portrayed different in the media. The paragraph first addresses how "bloggers purposefully harness the medium to promote wide awareness of their causes." Two experts Kenneth Roth, Human rights director, and Samantha Power, author and winner of Pulitzer Prize both set up a blog and Website called "Passion of the Present." The blogsite was to collect news and info about the genocide going on in Sudan. They both sought out well known bloggers to spread the knowledge. To put it in another way, eventually the whole blogosphere was informed on the issue since the "elite bloggers" spread the word. They also explained how Blogs let us tell offline media when we want. My conclusion, then, is that I felt that this paragraph had interesting and important information in how an issue as large as the the genocide going on in Sudan is being spread in throughout the blogosphere so that everyone is educated about this serious issue going on today in the world.