Tuesday, 31 January 2017

Johny's All-Star Blog #3

Although a bit cheesy, this blog is kind of fun. Calgary Flames star forward Johnny Gaudreau attended this years NHL All-star game and blogged about it. This blog not only gives an interesting inside look, but it also proves that bloging is still a legitamit form of media, even for modern sports teams.

https://www.nhl.com/flames/news/johnnys-all-star-blog---day-3/c-286245426

What a Weekend for the Royals

Sunday night Tyler Soy and the Royals downed the Giants for the third straight night in a row.  The Royals won Friday nights game in Vancouver 3-1, and then came home for two big wins at home. 7-1 Saturday, and 6-3 on Sunday.

Read the game story and check out some of the photos I took:

http://www.independentsportsnews.com/2017/01/29/royals-sweep-giants-tyler-soy-scores-4/

Monday, 23 January 2017

Analyzing a Blog Post, Jay Wallace, January 22nd 2017


1.  Jeff Atwood’s blog post is about communication on the web witch suggests the post is targeted towards a young adults and teenagers who use this form of communication the most. The post addresses problems with online communication, and goes in depth on potential solutions. This type of content is suited for readers with a higher education, and potentially even people who work in technology and online communication the article lists different solutions.
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Jeff Attwood’s blog post entitled “Because Reading is Fundamental”, Jeff highlights the key features, and more importantly the problems with online communication. He suggests that we need to incentivize listening rather than talking to improve interaction and communication online. Jeff lays out the issue of rewarding users for the amount of content they creates, and offers several solutions. These solutions revolve around the idea of tracking and displaying reading time.
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Jeff Attwood’s blog post Because Reading is Fundamental” is an informative read that not only addresses problems, but offers solutions to the problems we have with communication online. The blog post is not formatted the way a traditional article would be. The first content you see when you open the blog post is few words, a screen shot and a list rather than a bunch of dense text formatted in to paragraphs. This way of presenting the content is straight to the point and very visual. In his intro Jeff lays out and explains the issue in a very simple way, before he dives into the details and the solutions. This style of writing allows the reader to understand topic immediately, and arms them with the information they need to read the rest of the blog post and fully understand the issue and potential solutions. By the end of the blog, readers will have a full understanding of why listening is more important than talking when it comes to online communication thanks to Jeff’s simple, visual and informative article.