After my Feb. 2-6 readings, I needed to compare and contrast two different blogs on the same issue. The first blog is to be one for a print publication while the other is just an independent blog on the same topic matter. After viewing The State of Blogging at America's 100 Largest Newspapers, I elected a USA Today technology blog called Technology Live.
Over the past week, the USA Today blog had over five posts on video games, a couple posts mentioning the whole Facebook issue surrounding privacy and rights in its term of use, etc. In its many posts, there a lot of links to other websites. I anticipated seeing links to other publications or reputable sources. Instead, I found a lot of links to respective Wikipedia pages on the topics of discussion. You did see a few interviews with people in the field that you would expect from a blog associated with an established print publication.
Engadget is an independent blog that provides daily coverage about gadgets and consumer technology. This blog does focus more on a review of the latest technologies and gadgets in comparison to Technology Live. Its posts are much shorter in nature with less linking to other sites. In fact, about half of their links are just to old blog posts or blog post categories for Engadget instead of outside websites. Almost each post has a picture to go along with the text and the posts are definitely more opinionated in nature.
Personally, I think I'd prefer reading Engadget because of it's more engaging and personable tone. However, Technology Live would be viewed as more reliable in my mind and it does provide you with a lot of links to outside websites even if they aren't the most respected sources. Their posts could be viewed as a good research starter as you try to collect information about a specific technology, product, or issue.
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