Hi Everyone

I must confess that I am news website addict. Yes, I must admit I have given into the influence of the all powerful media corporation of News.com and the government website the ABC. It comes from my journalism days at Murdoch University. The lecturers from day one were testing us what was in the news on the web, newspaper and radio every single day. www.news.com.au and www.abc.net.au/news are the sites I normally check out.

Oh, I use to play tennis. So I guess that is something I have in common with you Kim. I still love watching the game. If I was offered passes to the Australian Open 2011 I would be in Tennis Heaven.

I must stop myself before I become one of the "women blogger" stereotypes who just go off on a tangent with a "girly chit-chat" disposition as cited in this weeks reading Posting With Passion: Blogs and the Politics of Gender. I must say it is terribly hard to get out of bad habits when I am use to the msn messaging casual tone. In the end, this "chit-chat" style or serious political blogging is not particular to one gender group. As the reading suggested, many of the blogging programs created for the web were in partnership with couples - men and women together were creating the whole blogging system. So I don't think there really is such a huge gender divide.

Hopefully I will make more sense of this tomorrow in class.

Tess