The two blogs I chose were Hot Air http://hotair.com/ and Rotten Tomatoes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/. In Hot Air, there is no famous sponsoring organization but Hot Air seems to get its facts straight and right. It is mainly composed of videos of news and the audience’s comments following. And the videos were basically news and short clips and all the actual news material is already documented, so its facts are good. I like the website’s design very much. It is simple, short, with limited advertisements and yet delivers all that it intended to. The design is split in three parts – Headlines, Top Picks, Blogs – a very simple classification, yet effective. The site has expanded to include blogs from various people and its main purpose is to keep people informed about political topics. It does so by videos, news, and blogs.
The only limitation I see with this site is its blogging feature. While it is good, not many sources are cited there and it is purely opinion. The discourse community for this site would be politically interested people who follow this site every day. Some key phrases are Headlines, Revealed and Obamateurism.
Rotten Tomatoes is mainly a movie site where one can see reviews, gossip about celebrities, clips, trailers and some community features. There is no famous sponsoring organization behind Rotten Tomatoes and the information is mainly related to movies. Reviews of movies don’t need any sources since they are but opinion and so not many sources are seen. The website’s design is very appealing but less so than Hot Air’s. This is because there are more advertisements thrown around the screen in Rotten Tomatoes than there are for Hot Air. The main classification of Rotten Tomatoes is Home, Movies, DVD, Celebrities, News, Critics, Trailers and Pictures and finally Community. Rotten Tomatoes’ main purpose is to provide information about specific movies to people who want to watch something.
I don’t see any limitation with Rotten Tomatoes as it accomplishes all it sets out to do along with an extensive library of movies. And there are many positive qualities about this site, one of which is the Tomatometer which is basically movie ratings. The discourse community for this site is those that visit it regularly for movie information. Some Key phrases are Rated, Genre, Critics, Synopsis and Starring.
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I like how you didn't take commonly known blogs and used them for your assignment. Furthermore, the fact that they are movie sites makes it interesting especially since this time of year there are many different movies and genres coming out!
ReplyDeleteHot Air is an influential and widely read blog. You should also know that it was started by Michelle Malkin, a prominent conservative writer, and is largely written by the anonymous Allahpundit.
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