Class Activity (27/07/05)

1) How did you find the blog?

2) What is the blog's audience?

3) What do you think the blog's aims are?

4) How would you describe the writing style of the blog?

5) How does the blog use links?

6) How is the quality of the linking in the blog?

ANSWERS:

1) I typed in "News Blog" into Google and it was the first result (I chose it not out of laziness, but rather to get a feel of a typical news-blog)

2) The blog is linked to a UK newspaper, so would obviously be more widely known across the UK. Being online however, it is available to a worldwide audience who wish to pursue information and comment on it

3) The aim of a blog is to supply information and allowing people who read it to comment on it. According to the site, it's aim is to supply untainted information with “editorial and political independence.”

4) The style is mostly conversational and it easy to understand. It's refreshing to read such information when it's free of the stiff outline of a newspaper article

5) In some articles there are no links (but does link the article to others of the same topic) while others contain sufficient links to organisations, locations etc.

6) Except for the lack of links in certain articles, the links where present are very good