Kate Price
TIFLE
Dr. Lord
February 1st, 2006
Week long BLOG stalking log.
BLOG #1
http://europeanethnocentrism.blogspot.com/
Given the recent elections and change of governmental powers in Canada, I was searching http://www.blogger.com/ for any Canadian content and/or other frustrated Canadian liberals: I ended up at this strange blog titled ‘European Ethnocentrism’, and even though the title was creepy…I continued to read the blog postings and they were actually interesting containing often times random but entertaining comments about current international news events. Therefore, if I gained nothing else from this blogger’s perspective, I at least updated my current news issues (“Gene Explains Asians' Resistance to Angina Drug” ) and had a laugh or two with respect to the blog posting “Canada: This Union can’t be Saved”. This blog is updated daily and from what I observed, often has several posts a day. I enjoyed that the blogger actually provides the original content/news article source after his commentary so that the passerby blog visitor is not left believing his summary and opinion of the issue. The visual organization of the blog is simple and clean with a white background, and posts clearly highlighted in the right margin. This made it very easy and pleasant to navigate.
BLOG #2
http://www.littlehappybunnies.com/
Although an entirely random blog with regards to content, this was an interesting (and equally disturbing) place to visit because it had various blog technology applications (new…at least for me) in use regularly by the user such as podcasts, blogrolling, and a photoblog. I am also learning that an RSS feed must be something normal, but I don’t quite know what. I still get a little afraid to go clicking too many things because I never know what is going to happen to my computer.
The content being updated was, for the most part, personal comments or item posting about random things such as the lyrics and a sound file for “This land is your land…”, which was kind of fun to turn on and listen to while reading strange posts on the little happy bunnies blog. Odd enough, I think I may become a regular visitor.
The layout of the blog however, is a bit dull. It could use a better color scheme and style. The current grey, white and orange leaves much to be desired.
BLOG #3
http://onedrawingperday.blogspot.com/
This blog features one different art graphic drawing daily and is accompanied by a quote reflective of the drawing. The drawings are in a style similar to that of Neil Gaiman, a british graphic artist/novelist. As a result of my visits to this blog, I have revisited the topic of blogrolling, as people often write the blogger to ask permission to blogroll, which I still don’t entirely understand: a link to other blogs? an advanced blog of sorts? a way for blogaholics to keep blogging?
Regardless, I chose this blog because I’m a fan of Neil Gaiman and so I enjoyed the way it placed the visual focus on the graphic art by providing medium to large size images.