Hi! After having spent hours and hours on the blogosphere, I've finally found something interesting! It has been a hard work because there are so many blogs!!! However, I can suggest you two blogs that attracted my attention: the first is about dumb things, strange news (I don't know if they are true or not!), funny animals and so on... It's really funny, so when you want to have a break and chunkle, go here. As you can see, the language used is very very informal, I think it's the typical blog language... this blog is also full of images and videos, unfortunately I coudn't see the videos because my connection is too low but if you do that, let me know how they are...
The second blog is about...everything! You can visit it when you want to relax and see how strange is the world! On the right side of the home page there's the list of topics you can find: nature, technology, travel, health, arts...there are news and curiosities from all over the world, it's funny, and interesting too! Here people share their opinions, thoughts and reflections... The language used is a bit more formal than that of the first blog, but it's always colloquial English.
Let me know what do you think about these two blogs, if you like them...I hope so!...Bye!
Sara
Showing posts with label Group A. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Group A: Elisa C. E-tivity 2
Hi!
After hours spent searching for blogs in Technorati, I found two blogs which really drew my attention and which I hope will interest you.
The first one is about racism, a topic which is very relevant nowadays since our society is becoming more and more multicultural. In particular, it gives an interesting and explained list of mistakes that white people probably make when talking about race. I would mention for instance the first one, which says that although race is a touchy topic associated with the terrible experiences of minorities throughout history, people should talk about it in order to create a more unified society; the fourth one, which says that since everyone has a race, it is wrong to think that race is only an issue for minorities; the sixth one, which supports the necessity of forgetting stereotypes and finally the ninth one, which seems to be the most important because it asserts that it is wrong to think that cultural exclusion is racism: perhaps the different communities are against integration just to preserve their own specific customs. Certainly this topic is very tricky and allows many discussions, but I think that the list presented in this blog makes you reflecting on your behaviour and on what you see around you every day.
Structure and style: I think that this blog is well organized because each ‘mistake’ is not only divided from the others but also well developed containing quotations from different writers. As far as links are concerned, only few are integrated into the text while a large number of them are listed on the right side of the page. The language is rather formal but not difficult to understand.
The second blog deals with ‘the reasons why people fail to succeed’. I find it useful above all for young people who tend to dream a lot about their future, in particular of succeeding in their life thinking that ‘success is a matter of chance rather than of choice’.
Structure and style: There is a sentence that can well explain the language used in this blog and show the differences from the first one: ‘We have become a microwave society, where we want to push a few buttons and POOF you are rich’. As it can be seen, here the language is more informal since the writer tends to effectively give his personal opinion about the problem, whereas in the first blog the author expresses her opinion in a more impersonal way also making reference to other writers. Moreover, unlike the previous one, in this blog links are placed at the top of the page.
FINAL OBSERVATIONS : I noticed that informal blogs containing personal experiences (I would call them ‘diary-blogs’) tend to be shorter and simpler than those dealing with more delicate and complicated issues of general interest (religion, education, linguistics, war...) , even if slang is sometimes not so easy to understand. Furthermore, informal blogs are more effective because they contain many videos, photos, images and are usually written by using different colours.
Let me know what you think about the blogs that I chose,
Bye
Elisa
After hours spent searching for blogs in Technorati, I found two blogs which really drew my attention and which I hope will interest you.
The first one is about racism, a topic which is very relevant nowadays since our society is becoming more and more multicultural. In particular, it gives an interesting and explained list of mistakes that white people probably make when talking about race. I would mention for instance the first one, which says that although race is a touchy topic associated with the terrible experiences of minorities throughout history, people should talk about it in order to create a more unified society; the fourth one, which says that since everyone has a race, it is wrong to think that race is only an issue for minorities; the sixth one, which supports the necessity of forgetting stereotypes and finally the ninth one, which seems to be the most important because it asserts that it is wrong to think that cultural exclusion is racism: perhaps the different communities are against integration just to preserve their own specific customs. Certainly this topic is very tricky and allows many discussions, but I think that the list presented in this blog makes you reflecting on your behaviour and on what you see around you every day.
Structure and style: I think that this blog is well organized because each ‘mistake’ is not only divided from the others but also well developed containing quotations from different writers. As far as links are concerned, only few are integrated into the text while a large number of them are listed on the right side of the page. The language is rather formal but not difficult to understand.
The second blog deals with ‘the reasons why people fail to succeed’. I find it useful above all for young people who tend to dream a lot about their future, in particular of succeeding in their life thinking that ‘success is a matter of chance rather than of choice’.
Structure and style: There is a sentence that can well explain the language used in this blog and show the differences from the first one: ‘We have become a microwave society, where we want to push a few buttons and POOF you are rich’. As it can be seen, here the language is more informal since the writer tends to effectively give his personal opinion about the problem, whereas in the first blog the author expresses her opinion in a more impersonal way also making reference to other writers. Moreover, unlike the previous one, in this blog links are placed at the top of the page.
FINAL OBSERVATIONS : I noticed that informal blogs containing personal experiences (I would call them ‘diary-blogs’) tend to be shorter and simpler than those dealing with more delicate and complicated issues of general interest (religion, education, linguistics, war...) , even if slang is sometimes not so easy to understand. Furthermore, informal blogs are more effective because they contain many videos, photos, images and are usually written by using different colours.
Let me know what you think about the blogs that I chose,
Bye
Elisa
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Anna B - E-tivity 2
Hi everybody! It has been quite hard to find an interesting blog on Technorati... The reason was not the lack of topics... well, it was the opposite! I found difficult to find those blogs I was really interested in! My first research, for example, was about Japan... There are so many references, and none of them really matched with my idea! So I tried to be more precise, and this is what I was able to find!
- And The Winners Are... - Intention Of Attention The first blog is very original! Maybe some of you don't know anything about Ig Nobel Prizes (which are supposed “to honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”) so have fun by reading them! It's amanzing to know that someone made scientific research for very ordinary things.
As the language is concerned, the author simply lists who has won an award and why... He has copied the list from an article written by Alok Jha (The Guardian), but, as he quotes the source, he totally respect the blog-etiquette. The web-page is quite easy to read, as the dark background contrasts with the light colours of the font.
- Latest News - Good News On Technorati I really appreciate this blog! Finally somebody has decided to write about good news happening every day! I'm so tired to hear about accidents, deaths, wars, and so on... I absolutely don't think that these events aren't important, but we all need good news sometimes... The style used in this blog is formal and in every post I found the precise reference to the article or the web-site where the news has been found. Anyway, I also found few posts written in an informal style, but none of the author used slangs of abbreviations, so that the blog is very easily readable and comprehensible.
- Dorothy Dunnett Blog by Bill Marshall on Technorati My final choice was to search for a writer who I really enjoy! I'm talking about Dorothy Dunnett, one of the most famous historical novels' writers. I am reading both of her two most famous collections: the first (House of Niccolò) is about sir Nicholas de Fleury, a Belgian tradesman who expands his business in Scotland, England and also in the Arabian territories; the second (Lymond Chronicles) deals with the life and adventures of a clever and very shrewd man during the war between England and Scotland. This blog is about meetings and conventions of Dunnett's fans. The language is more informal than the one used in the two blogs I analyse above, even though I didn't find many colloquial words or expressions.
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