Blogging Assignment

Class, this assignment is to be done independently. Please turn it in by e-mail to me by 11:10 a.m. on Thursday, July 5. Happy holiday!

Directions: Quickly check out the following eight Web logs.

Go back and take more time with two of them, plus any other blog of your choosing. (Check out http://www.technorati.com/ for listings of blogs if you don’t already have a favorite.)

For each of those three that you analyze, BRIEFLY answer the following:

1. Is this a reported blog, an opinion/commentary blog, an author’s journal, a news roundup, or something else entirely?
2. How good is the content? How easy is it to navigate and find archival entries? How well does it encourage reader interaction?
3. Would you look at this site again if you didn’t have to?
4. How could it be improved?

Please type up your answers and e-mail them to me.

Here are eight sites to start your review with:

http://www.wonkette.com/

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/

http://www.buzzmachine.com/

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/SoxBlog/

http://www.newmediamusings.com/

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

http://jbshyu.typepad.com/