Both blogs that I’m following are very similar, so this should be very simple. For the last few das I have been looking at Daily Kos, and AmericaBlog. Both basically have the same purpose, which is to spread liberal views to everyone. Both blogs talk mostly about politics, actually that’s the only topic I’ve come across; I just say ‘mostly’ in case I missed something. For the last few days the main topic has been heath care reform. If you are in anyway surprised by this please go crawl in a little hole and stay there, forever. It will be a nice change from the rock you’ve been staying under lately. Although another topic that has come up, I would say it’s second next to health care, is the ‘battle’ between the white house and Fox ‘news’. I put news in quotes because I don’t like Fox. That’s all I’ll say about that but just so you know I could go on for quite a while. Back to the real point I’m trying to make. The thing that interested me about this topic, is that I first heard about it on the New York Times. It was really interesting to get the basic story, and then follow it with the opinions on the blog.
Authors for both: On Daily Kos there seems to be about 7-10 regular writers, and on AmericaBlog there are 5. Right now I can’t tell too much difference in each author’s style, but I think the more I read them the better I will be at figuring out who wrote what without looking at the byline.
Audience: again the audience for both are the same. Liberals who like to make fun of republicans. I did notice on AmericaBlog that they have a bunch of stuff dedicated to gay rights, so I think that’s part of the audience they cater heavily to as well.
Layout: shocker, they are both laid out the same; Posts on the left side, hyperlink features and advertisements on the right side. They have different color schemes though. AmericaBlog is blue and Daily Kos is orange. I don’t know about AmericaBlog yet, but I think the orange has importance on Daily Kos. I can’t find it now to quote it, but earlier today I read something on thee about orange. It was like the nation in orange, or the news in orange, or the truth in orange, or the orange machine, something like that. It made me think about what we talked about in class reguarding different jargon used in blogs. I have also noticed that AmericaBlog put up a lot of videos. Instead of just quoting someone they put a video up. I think this has a greater effect for the points they try to make.
I think that’s all I have to say. I’m not sure how to end this so I’m just going to stop.
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"The thing that interested me about this topic, is that I first heard about it on the New York Times. It was really interesting to get the basic story, and then follow it with the opinions on the blog."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think that has been what's kind of fun about this unit -- you read the original article in the paper, and then you can read how others have responded to it in their blogs. I guess it goes back to the idea of "intertexuality," as presented by Harris.
Nice connections, Emma and Amanda. That's exactly what I'm trying to do with you all in this unit, is to look at the circulation of ideas among newspapers, blogs, and elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe revolution in Ukraine was symbolized by the color orange. Maybe that has something to do with the Kos color scheme.