http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog
1. Write down at least five adjectives that describe your first impressions after the link loaded.
2. Who writes this blog? Do you trust their information? Why or why not? How does the author attempt to create this sense of trust, or, conversely, how does s/he lose it?
3. Who reads this blog? How do you know? How does the blog send signals to the audience to let them know that this is something they'll want to read regularly?
4. What is the balance of multimedia content (pictures, videos, etc.) and text on the blog's main page? How does it compare to the other blogs you scanned? What does this blog's particular balance say to its potential audience?
5. Write down at least five adjectives that describe the author's "voice." What does s/he sound like? What kind of person is s/he? What are his or her interests? Would you hang out with them? Why or why not?
6. Would you consider returning to this blog regularly? Why or why not?
1. Concise, Random, Truthful?, Cluttered, and Senseless.
ReplyDelete2. Jason G. Goldman- No we do not trust this information. Although we know some background information on Goldman, we are unsure of his actual credability.
3. Karen Elizabeth, Sven DiMilo, Jason Goldman, Sylvia, Sue, Mokele, and Liz. We are able to see their feedback. They actaully take time to go to the site and read the blogs.
4. Too much writing, not enough pictures, and too many category options on the sides of the blog.
5. Scientific, Egotistical, Concerned, Focused, & motivated. His interests are in animals and writing about himself in 3rd person. This blog is a lot more random and off the wall.
6. No, It's too random and does not interest the members of our group.
Group 2:
ReplyDelete1) organized, good variety of topics, page is unattractive and boring
2) Bartosz Brzezinski is the author. Yes because full access to the source is given underneath every time.
3) Audience would be those interested in science because all of the topics are science related. The author regularly updates it.
4) There aren't many pictures or videos. This makes it less intriguing than the other blogs. The audience would have to like boring information and doesn't need the attraction of the pictures.
5) Academic, knowledgeable, scientific. Science is their interest. We would probably not hang out with them because we don't have similar interests, like science.
6) No because we're not as interested in science as the author of the blog.
Group 4. Commenting on blog 2.
ReplyDelete1. The adjectives we chose to describe our first impression of the blog include:supernatural, well illustrated, scientific, complex, and detailed
2. The authors include: Jess McNally, Wired Science, Rachel Ehrenberg, and Brandon Keim, Lisa Grossman. There are not a lot of comments and opinions mainly facts. We can trust this information. The authors gave links and citations and also gave their credentials.
3. Science followers and people interested in space would follow this blog. The people who follow this blog would most likely read it regularly. They posted blogs today and all ready have many comments.
4. Content balanced
6. No We do not think that we are apart of this blogs targeted audience and do not think we would return regularly.