In class on Monday, we will have one more Blog Tracking presentation. We'll also talk about the upcoming Blog Roots assignment. We’ll do some show and tell and partner work on blogs.
Part of our discussion will be focused on what we might call The Anatomy of a Good Blog Post. (Google that phrase, by the way, and you'll get some helpful results if you are interested in advice from professional bloggers.) Below are links to five posts on five very different blogs. They are all high quality, effective posts. Read them closely and try to figure out what makes them good. (If you don't think they are good, well, we can have a conversation about how subjective taste is and how writers in the blogosphere have to keep that in mind.) Take some notes on each post. Try to get at what is working and why. What tips about style, technique, argument, or storytelling might you be able to use in your own blogging?
- Allie Brosh on Hyperbole and a Half: “Adventures in Depression”
- Amelia on Bon Appétempt: “Serious Food: In the Kitchen with Grandma”
- Mark Sample on Play the Past: “What Comes Before the Platform: The Refuse of Video Games”
- Shane Ryan on Grantland’s The Triangle Blog: “About Last Night: Linsanity”
- Will Danger on New Queer on the Block: “Birthdays and Death-days: An Absence/Presence Story”
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