Post Hacker Dan

With the Internet growing more and more every second there needs to be multiple ways people can share information. Many people have found this in blogging. Blogging ranges from small personal blogs to major corporate blogs that companies use. For this assignment we were told to read three blogs; Lifehacker, Huffington Post, and dy/dan. With these three blogs I found new information and great ideas. I also found people discussing and debating about the various topics being blogged about.

Lifehacker is a blog completely focused on helping people with different computer needs. It shows how to use computers in different ways and how to set up all types of cool new screens and backgrounds. This blog can help people who love computers, make their computer even better, it had different ways to download software, and how to upload gadgets. This is not a blog for just anyone, someone like me who hardly uses computers would have no use for a blog like this. However, anyone who has a love for technology would have a great time using this blog.

Huffington Post is a completely different direction then Lifehacker. This blog is political. It discusses all the topics about the up coming election. It tells us who did what, who won what, and who is up in the polls. But something that needs to be considered when reading blogs like this is that they are bias. This blog displays more blog entries on McCain then Obama, but the blog entries on McCain are more negative then the stories about Obama. At first I had thought that the blog was in complete support of McCain, because of the lack of blog entries on Obama, but after I started reading a few I realized what it really was. This is a great blog for people who are very interested in always knowing whats going on. However, because this blog is bias, looking at other blogs similar to this one would be a way to get all the facts and opinions.

Dy/dan is much different then the other two blogs. The first two blogs were large blogs that were frequently being looked at and commented. Also, many different people are writing and contributing to these first two blogs. Dy/dan is only one person and his blog is written on a much smaller scale. His blog is designed for teachers; even his subtitle tells us that, "working hard to make it look easy." Many teachers use his ideas from his blog and take them to the classroom. Dy/dan is a blog not only for information, but a great place for teachers to discuss various things that they have tried and failed or tried and succeeded in.

After reading many blog entry's from each blog I found that blogs are written at many different scales. Even though Lifehacker and Huffington Post are great blogs, dy/dan is defiantly my favorite. His blogs was very simply and the easiest to navigate. Because his blog is a personal blog, there were no advertisements on the page to distract from the reading. The other two blogs had many pictures, which was nice, however, too many picture also can take over the page. Dy/dan had pictures but not too many and they fit the blog entry perfectly.