The
evaluation of Blogger (usability, usefulness, etc.).
This is a first impression on
Blogger as I never have done anything remotely like this format before.
Closest thing to a "blog"
as I have come before is Tumblr.com with
the use of very quick sharing of information that is liked but fame on Tumblr
is very fast and random. In the moment this is very kind of posts but often
substance is put aside over style. So i would put Blogger higher on the
usefulness scale as an individual blog does not normally cycle through as much
content as Tumblr but in an age of sound bites and headline scanners Tumblr is
the more attractive model of cheap fast blogging.
I have found blogger rather
difficult to use as the system is not intuitive at all as in the template
section should have allowed for me to alter the colours of the sections i was
directly interacting with instead of forcing me to navigate through another
menu and try and find what each section is called to edit the colour scheme.
Identify
and discuss the online blogs you examined and their usefulness. Surf the WWW
and find at least 3 blogs with subjects that are interesting to you One of the
topics you blog about has to be current financial affairs.
The Three Blogs I looked at to get a sense of the blogging world are;
CUBE WORLD http://wollay.blogspot.ca/
Wollay is a video game developer
who successfully Kickstarted a game called Cube world. I choose this blog
because I was one of the Kickstarter supporter and he used this blog to give
weekly updates on the game to keep all those who back him up to date so we
could follow his progress and crowd source solutions to problems with relative
ease but by design the blog didn't update every day.
Positives: lots of information for
the targeted audience.
Negative: long periods without
updates.
Although not blogging in the
classic sense of writing and posting pictures the Ning was a site founded by
the Vlog brothers, John and Hank Green.
The Vlog brothers have made a
name for themselves on the internet, Thousands of people follow the lives of
these two brothers on opposite cost having a conversation in their words to
decrease world suck. Through years of growing a cult following these two
brothers have donated Hundreds of thousands of dollars towards charity and
projects to make life on this planet a little better for everyone. And it all
start with DFTBA or "Don't Forget To Be Awesome"
Positive: Large, diverse
conversations and lots of community involvement.
Negative: hard to find relevant financial
Analysis
PINE GROVE http://www.pine-grove.com/blog/
As far as financial blogs go it is
slim pickings for un-bias of subjectively "good" blogs as everyone is
coming from their own personal opinion on economic theory and how financial
systems should possibly operate so an analysis is supposed to go off the only
thing that is possibly relevant the data. The issue is that there is many ways
of interrupting the data from historical and sociological perspectives. The
experts in the field of economics don't have a clue because the economic models
of how business works haven't been updated since the 50's and John Nash's game
theory. So as you may gather I don't hold financial Blogs in the highest
regards.
Positive:
Well organized and intuitive design
for a financial blog.
Negative:
It’s a financial blog, not very
exciting or interesting in comparison to other blogs on the Net.
Q:
Discuss the place blogging holds in today’s availability of information,
and its
advantages/disadvantages over more traditional formats such as newspaper and magazine.
Blogging is the future. We have
seen repeatedly new papers and magazine sales decline as companies are
embracing online marketing. At the same time the internet is a place where
everyone has a voice and too often is the case with spur of the moment writing
and publishing, a lot of half-assed poorly worded opinion comes out and it is
ugly. With traditional media there are editors and multiple people writing on a
wide variety of topics in a single issue. while the online is a single source
often mislead into believing a truth. Print medias ability to be held to a
certain standard while log for more frequent updating.
Summary-
Print media
Advantages
- More control over content. Real research
must go into some articles.
- Larger budget investigations,
research takes time and money and many bloggers have the type to blog but don’t
have the money to do it as a day job.
-Overall presentation is designed
to catch a person’s eye
Disadvantages
- slow on distribution. Long gone
are the days of walking down to a newspaper stand to buy the paper.
- Slow to react. Digital media is
instant, grabbing news from twitter is simply more up to date but sometimes
less reliable
-Wastes natural resources to make. Not
only the paper and ink to print but also the trucks that have to move
newspapers and in the end a paper is thrown out and takes energy to recycle it
back again.
Q: Also include a brief discussion of
where you see blogging going in the
next 5-10 years.
Blogging isn't the end all be all as in
the video game crash of the 80's too many items of poor quality flooding the
market caused the overall value to decrease. As to I believe is the way of the
Blogger sphere, this isn't to say there is no good blogs out there that are
informative or interesting but I don't believe in its current form it can
survive. This does not pertains to classic word blogs but also the video blogging
or Vlogging as the cool kids say. Over saturation of the market is bad for
business and the only ones that can survive will be the ones that can
differentiate themselves from the herd.
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