Week 2: Seeking a best

Blog is the trend what we express to public. There are lots of different kinds of blog on the internet. We always see the Podcasting blog like Youtube, personal blog like Xanga and so. But what are the characteristics between each of the different blogs? I am going to introduce a Music blog which is a best blog I have seen before.

Pitchfork is one of the best music blogs that provide the most updates music information. It is a blog about music news with specific comments for each entry. The blog is very organized with three main columns in the middle of the blog and a map on the left side of the webpage. On the top of the blog, it has nice banner with the reviews of the podcasting stuffs and the features of the blog. Pitchfork uses few very contrastable colors with orange, blue and grey to show that music is funny and relaxing. This is important, why? What makes us to browse more or stay longer on the internet? It is the design of the webpage and the attractive information.

The blog is not only talk about the newest music, it also discuss the old music. The most attractive is the ‘forkcasting’ which means podcasting. You can listen the mp3 they have online without download it which is important to save audiences’ time. Also, it has the top 50 albums and top 100 tracks to show that which one is good, which one is top hit recently. I believe you will not outdate if you keep visit this blog every week. Overall, this is a great blog and you will enjoy it.

Week 3 Post

"What is the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media?"

We are now living in a Digital Century; we should accept this. Nowadays, people are more often to use digital media to communicate. One of the media that is commonly using to express their thoughts or share their knowledge to others is called a “Blog”. “A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.”(http://www.blogscanada.ca/BlogDefinition.html) But what is the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media?

More and more bloggers are creating their own blogs to create their thoughts and ideas to the public. They will regularly or irregularly posting their entries on their blogs. The entry may be about their daily life, love story, political issue or religion issue. Readers can be free to browse or comment to the blogs without any permission once the blogger posted the entry. The problem is the information have not edited by any professional writer. When you read the information, you may get the wrong perception of the idea. Therefore the society may change by the quality of the blogs’ articles.

When more and more people use the Blog to share their thoughts, they probably will depend on the internet more then others. What it means is the face to face communication will decrease somehow. People will only use a blog to communicate rather than hanging out with friends! This is bad and can be a disease to the society. We will control by digital device in the future. We can not just depend on the digital media too much. Digital is just a tool to improve our lives but not the all of our lives.