The assigned blog for this post is titled “The Huffington post” with the subtitle being “delivering news and opinion since May 9th 2005”. Briefly stated, the blog is packed with opinions about the news in general and mainly focuses on the politics side of the media. The blog has many different articles about politics, from the Presidency in 2008 to the war on Iraq.
The creator of the blog uses some very good methods to catch the reader’s attention. For example, the article labeled “Cheney: Iraq War A "Remarkable Achievement"” catches ones attention instantly. The article is located on the top left hand corner of the blog. This article is about the war on Iraq. This article has three large photos, which help catch the reader’s attention. These photos are of a man standing on a burning car, Dick Cheney, and a soldier aiming his weapon upwards at something or someone.
The blog is well organized and has a number of good conventions. Some of these conventions include, but are not limited to things, such as hyperlinks, video, to eye capturing pictures. Some extremely useful conventions to navigate the blog easily are the hyperlinks located on the top center of the blog. The names of these links are, Home, The News, The Blog, Eat The Press, and Fearless Voices. These same links are also located on the very bottom of the page, which makes it convenient to navigate the blog up and down. Each one of the links takes the reader to another section of the blog, which have more news of some sort.
When comparing this blog to my own I noticed a limited amount of similarities. The only similarity that was noticed was that we both used hyperlinks in some way. My blog has hyperlinks that are located on the right side of the screen. The Huffington blog has its main hyperlinks on the top and bottom of the blog. Besides this minor similarity both blogs are extremely different. For example, my blog has a dark background with white lettering and only a few posts. The Huffington blog has over a hundred or more posts and has a white background with dark lettering. The Huffington blog also has a lot of different advertisements all around it, from the top to the sides of the blog. The advertisements are annoying and unwanted.
The one thing I believe the creator of the blog does exceptionally well is put photos together that are relevant to each article on the blog. This is the one thing that I would like to start including in my blog. Another thing that is done very well is how the blog is continuously being updated. For example, as I was writing this post the article mentioned earlier about the war on Iraq was replaced by an article about Presidency candidate, Hillary Clinton. This article also has a large photograph designed to capture the reader’s attention, just like the earlier article with the three photos. There are a lot of other things not mentioned that make the assigned blog, a great blog.
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At first looking at that blog it reminded me of The Onion. The subtitle did it for me mostly. Who puts a specific date? I found it entertaining and assumed some note of sarcasm in the publisher. This blog looks pretty interesting with a list of other interesting blogs that relate to current events, giving the reader to read other opinions and thoughts of people other than the “Huffington Post”. The stories were somewhat random, but this sight seemed more political to me. Your analysis and comparison of the two blogs was very accurate, as you have differing blog techniques and styles.
I think that you were very correct when you said that your blog had little in common with the Huffington Post’s blog. I know exactly what you meant. I had a hard time finding anything in common between mine and the Huffington Post as well. It seems like we wrote very similar things on our blogs, we both said that the only things in common were having links and pictures. You did a great job analyzing the blog. It was very political indeed. It seems like people have a very easy time writing their opinions about politics.
I found this webpage no different form other newspages with a striking similarity being that images are key to the presentation.
The use of text is obviously present but images are used more that anything.The site uses common conventions such as the arts and entertainment sections as well as political parts. This gives the reader the choice to read what they are interested in.
I likeed the way you analysed the web page and linking it to yours.It was quite interesting reading.
The similarities and differences between these pages and regular blogs can be clear cut but other times the lines of division can be very fine.
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