Common Visual Design Elements
The essay for this particular topic has a purpose for informing people on the different types of designs used in blogs and the statistics of how much those specific designs are used. They do this by taking, at random, 147 single person blogs and then another 7 blogs that are run by 2 or more people. This helped them determine a percentage for how many blogs used which style.
The essay is written in a way that informs the reader on the actual percentage (of blogs chosen) that use coding, dividers, color bars…etc. After the stats they give examples of blogs that they chose, and each one is different in it’s own way. Basically it all develops from what the particular person is trying to do with their blog and whether they would like to have a visual content, textual content, or even both.
They also used stats on the ages and genders of different bloggers and showed different information in charts and that made the article, in my opinion, much more interesting. The stats show the different percentages of people using coding or even different templates.
Blogging as a Social Action
In this particular essay the writer(s) catch your attention in very specific ways. They do this by choosing topics that involve personal lives, and criminal offenses that make it interesting. The focal point however is that all of the stories share the common ground of a breech of privacy.
The short stories provided for the reader at the beginning catch their attention, while showing them the different aspects of people and their privacy. The essay also depends on different references from historical myths, literature, and pop culture to make it’s general point of “privacy” on the internet or any form of anonymity having a falling out. By this they make the point that privacy on the internet is being brought into the public forum, and therefore the former lines that once distinguished public from private are now becoming hazy and less distinct.
The essay also mentions how blogging can be subset into it’s own genre. I found this interesting because the writer(s) then go into the history and origin of the blog and different branches of blogging such as informational, educational, or diary blogs.
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I think it’s really scary that our private and public lives are becoming one in the same thanks to blogging. It is getting hard to tell what is a “breech of privacy” anymore and it’s scary that the privacy rights pages are so long and detailed. “Blogging as a Social Action” sounds like an interesting article!