BLog #2 Analysis

In summary, the blog entitled, "Reappropriate: a personal and political blog written by an angry Asian American woman," is very advanced, in my opinion. She offers a variety of topics that are discussed through her blog posts and those contributing authors. She has a tab bar consisting of, "home, About, Ads, Policy, Contact." There is high-quality imagery of animee on the site. ONe can click on links to the most recent posts and see recent comments of those posts. There are ads on the site. For each post she has a link to a printer-friendly version of the post. She offers an "Archives" section as well as a "blogged ratings" section in which her rating as of now is "8.0" and a link to where you can place your own rating. The author also offers a list with links of some of the blogs that she follows and a "directory" of various blogs. She offers lists of blogs that are broken into such categories as: "Random Amusement," "Vagina Revolution," and, "Yellow and Brown." I would say that of the content of the posts, they mostly focus on topics covering issues revolving around women. She also offers a place for people to search for specific posts, a link to her Facebook page and what her current status is, and a section with a topic that is headlined "Spotlight."

Review:

In reference to the content of the blog postings, one of the major strengths of both of the blogs that I have looked at, is that they cover a range of topics and analyze the content differently than what is being done in mainstream media. This means that they are looking at the questions that are not being asked and analyzing why that is and offering suggestions about what should be being asked. I think that a strength of the posts on this site in particular is that each post is clearly authored by the main author and then there is a link to the comments from contributing authors. This helps to clearly strucutre the site and its posts and everyone is given credit whether it is anonymous or not. I like this. I also like that each post is printer-friendly capable and that she has labeled them into categories which can be found under each posting title. For example, a post entitled, "Bobby Jindal Defend Criticism of Obama," has a category label of, "U.S. Politics and Politicians." This can make your searching easier if you are searching for posts that could be found under a certain category. And this same example also shows how she is looking at not only issues of women of color but also men of color, namely, the President of the U.S. and the racial intolerance of our counrty.

In terms of the site's organization and ease of use, I think that it is immaculate. Everything is very clearly organized in to categories as I have mentioned a few times in the above information. I think that another strength of the site is that under the "About" tab, she offers some specific background information about herself such as, "My name is Jenn. I am female. I was born in August of 1982." The reader at least now gets some sort of an idea of the basics about the author. She goes on to offer information about where she's from, where her parents are from, etc., in the form of a question and answer interview, making it easier to see her answers and the questions being asked. I think that the reader also gets an idea about the reasoning for this site's beginning.

Finally, in reference to the site's weaknesses, I honestly did not see any. I liked that there were various topics represented and that the analysis offered questioned what was being said in the mainstream media and voices. I liked the printer-friendly posts. I thought the site was very well organized and offered places for people to contribute their thoughts. If you wanted to contact her directly she offered you information to do so. I really enjoyed this site and the postings that I read. I have no weaknesses to offer.