This week we looked at a number of different blogs. Here are a few of them:
> Dooce.com
> Ian Bogost
> Boing Boing
Dooce.com
The author of this blog is a woman called Heather B. Armstrong. She talks about life as a woman, pop culture, music, photography, exercise and her family. She blogs once a month to talk about her everyday life. I believe this blog is targeted at a female audience, reason being, they are able to relate to the topics being discussed. Heather B. Armstrong has pictures relating to her blog posts as well as pictures of her family. She has links to friends as she is also a member of the social networking site; Twitter, which is why there is a sidebar showing her recent tweets. In order to comment on her blog posts, you must be a member of the site itself.
This blog is by a man called Ian Bogost who blogs all about video games. I believe this blog is targeted at a male audience, hence the number of male topics being discussed. Unlike the blog Dooce.com, this blog uses a more formal language. It is more academic and I'm guessing this is because Ian Bogost is a University Professor. The layout of this blog is very organised and is set into four sections: Books, Games, Writing and Blog. It also as a Teaching and Speaking section as well as a Photography page. Ian Bogost's blog also contains links to amazon where others are able to purchase the books that he talks about.
Boing Boing is a blog about technology, culture and news. It has multiple authors who talk about different topics, therefore the writing style differs between each blog post. Whilst Dooce.com is a more personal blog and Ian Bogost blog is a video games blog, this one is an advertising blog. This is because it includes embedded media from YouTube. Seeing as this blog focuses on technology, it includes advertisements and links to products such as mobile phones and laptops.
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