Opening the site in to my browser the first thing I see is The New York Times logo. Immediately I feel like this site is from a very responsible and prestigious source. I have heard this newspaper as being a great newspaper, but I don't remember where. It just seems that New York is such a big city with such a modern influence on America, it seems like it's news paper would be very exceptional.
The layout however, just seems like any one else's blog. I don't believe it's much different from any of the student blogs, except each little section is filled with information. One very notable difference is the bar at the top of the blog. It has many different topics which can be expanded in to even more topics. For example, if you click on art, there are six different sub-genres you can click on. Then if you click on a sub-genres, sometimes you can find a sub-sub-genre for that particular sub-genre. The top bar is a wealth of information for anything you are looking for.
The funny thing is that I can't seem to find the screens blog page if I go navigate the New York Times site. It might be a lower tier blog, so it can't be placed on, nevertheless the screens blog page is very interesting.
The page is totally white, black, and blue. White is the background, black is the text, and blue is the hyper-links. This is very effective in terms of a blog page, because it's very easy to read and understand. The information is clearly defined. The blogs take up 75% of the page, and the other 25% are mostly on the right side, small boxes with different stuff. (Like links to other blogs, other keywords, and some information about the author.
Getting to the content of the screens page, in the definition is proclaims it " will find, review and make sense of all those senseless new images." The author, whom I believe to be a female, is talking about internet content most likely released by amateurs in to the data world. Finding the one she finds interesting, informative, or really whatever she wants, she'll right a review about and post it on the blog.
Without even scrolling down, you can see that the most recent post is a video from youtube, not some TV footage or news source. Straight from the heart of the internet crowd, she takes it and dissects it in her own mental tools.
In all honesty, the blogs aren't that different from the ones in engl1020 section 10 class. All of ours are simplistic, just like the Screens one. We all have random stuff, just like that one. The only constraint that the Screens has is the internet base, and ours mostly deals with the internet as well. Even the language and grammar conventions seem the same as some of ours! It just seems like that one is famous.
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emm...what should we say about "The New York Times"? first of all, i think this is a blog i would never visit if i don't have this assignment about it. yeah, i think some of our classmates' blogs are more fancy than the "screen". well~ they do have lots of information on their blog although they are kinda.... those youtube videos were more interesting than the blog i should say. 'cause some of them i didn't even know about it, and i had no idea what it was. however, this is the first time for me to get to know something about "The New York Times", 'cause i was not really familiar with it.
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