I sat down and analyzed the blog Word Explosions and have come up with some thoughts about the blog overall.
- Frequency of Posts - It appears that Word Explosions is a couple weeks old, only beginning on September 3rd, 2014. Since its inception they have been posting several posts a week by several different authors. Even though they are posting several times a week, they leave gaps up to 6 days long without any new content appearing on their blog.
- Voice - The voice element throughout the blog is varied due to the multiple authors posting articles. Overall, however, the tone is critical but informative and presents its varied subjects appropriately.
- Passion/Expertise - A lack of content because of its short lifespan doesn't allow the authors true intent and expertise to be shown appropriately. Going back to frequency of posts, there seems to be long gaps between posts which would appear to indicate a lack of interest in the overall media form. However, if you analyze the individual blog posts a sense of knowledge and passion is apparent.
- Clarity/Organization - When I first opened the blog each post was laid out according to its attached picture. This enables the reader to be drawn to a visual queue but does not allow him or her to choose an article to read based on the content of the blog.
- Visual Queues - The layout and template were bright and welcoming to the reader. The blue water background coupled with the floating pictures allowed the user time to explore freely without being forced into one blog post or another. With this layout it was very easy to navigate around the site and access various posts.
- Content - Overall the blog posts seem to be thorough although short in length. For the various topics covered I believe there could be more in depth and varied content.
- Relevance - Because this blog covers an identical class to the one that I am currently taking, the varied blog posts allow me to examine and then expand on my own posts. I would like to see more posts by the writers as they seem to be lacking in some areas.
Overall, Word Explosions, was very pleasing to look at even though slightly frustrating to find out what kind of post that I was choosing from the menu. I would not come back to this blog because of the post layout and in the seeming lack of consistency in the timing of blog posts.
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