Perspective

I choose to analyze Mary Gordon's perspective on writing.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/070599gordon-writing.html

In the first parts of the article, Gordon mentions that she writes on paper and not by using the computer. I can relate to this because usually when I just start writing, I brainstorm on paper as well. Also, her friends dislike her handwriting, I am the only one who likes my handwriting!

I love writing on paper because I love the smell of ink on paper, I am fascinated by the way the ink dries on paper.

"I buy notebooks wherever I go in the world. Just as each country has a different cuisine, each has a different notebook culture." I couldn't have said this better.

This article does not talk about online writing but there is one thing I would like to say, it doesn't matter if the piece we write is published online or offline it will still influence the public, therefore we should be careful about what we write and we should ALWAYS dounlecheck our sources.

Multimedia

Multimedia tools make a blog more interactive and appleaing for the reader. This does not mean that multimedia tools alone are enough to classify a blog as good; the content is just as important. Also, multimedia tools do not necessarily mean that a blog is credible.

Moving on, I think some of the effective multimedia tools are videos and images.

Here is an example of a blog which uses images and video.

http://ldvb.blogspot.ae/

This makes the blog more personal and grabs the attention of the reader. Note that this blog is by a personal who edits photos and shoots videos; however images and videos can be used in blogs discussing any topic.

Analyzing a blog

The blog I chose to analyze is:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/07/qa-what-works-for-websites-today.html

The author of the blog is Seth Godin, who graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy. Godin also earned his MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Godin is the author of 11 books, one of his popular books is Permission Marketing. I am providing this information about the author to build his credibility, it is obvious that he is a Marketing and Computer expert.

In the blog post I chose to discuss Godin talks about a design book he wrote, The Big Red Fez. Basically, he is using his blog to promote the book and inform the audience about the content of the book. I like the fact that Godin mentions the thesis of the book in his blog, this summarizes what the book is going to be talking about.

Godin talks about the increasing number of bad sites and he mentions some sites are unnecessary. In my opinion this is true because at least once a day I come across a malfunctioning site. If people were to follow Godin's guidelines while building a website the number of unnecessary websites would decrease.