GROUP C: Silvia e-tivity 2

Hello everybody!

After spending quite a long time reading through various weblogs in technorati, I finally found two interesting blogs about travelling, which is one of my favourite hobbies! Unluckily I can’t do it very often, so when I am at home I enjoy reading on the web other people’s experiences about their travels, which I think it is very useful because in such blogs you can often find some good suggestions about the places which are worth visiting and the various things you can try once you go there. One example can be the first weblog I visited, which was created by a Spanish girl who considers herself a permanent tourist, as she is always on trips!

What struck me of this blog is that there is plenty of information about any kind of food she tried in the various places she visited, such as in Barcelona, Japan, France and Amsterdam! There are really a lot of useful suggestions about food recipes according to the city/country you want to visit... isn’t it nice?! (by the way, have a look at the photos of those recipes..they are so tempting!!!). Moreover, she has added a lot of original photos of the most beautiful bars she went and of the people she met during her trips, which make her blog really interesting and enjoyable as well!

What I particularly like of this weblog is the fact that it is very well organised and original, with lots of links which provide further information about the origins of food recipes and of the most famous bars, restaurants and markets, such as the famous Borough market in London. There is also a link to a website in which European food bloggers send to each other food recipes and photos of the typical products of their countries, which I think it is very useful if you are interested in knowing food recipes of the different European nations!

Another blog I would recommend you is about yoga: even though it is a sport which I’ve never practiced it fascinates me a lot! This weblog gives very good and useful advice about how not to worry about stress and to relax doing yoga! However, this weblog is very different from the first one, as it is much shorter and less accurate; moreover, I think it is slightly too schematic.

General considerations about style:

As regards the style of the blogs I came across, I would say that the authors mostly use simple language with many colloquialisms and slang words in order to make their blogs more informal as possible, so that the readers can easily interact with them. In telling their experiences they sometimes use ironic expressions in order to catch the reader’s attention; they use dots as well, creating in this way expectations on him/her. However, in the more informative ones, the style tends to be more formal and essential.

Well, I hope you enjoy visiting the blogs I chose! See you soon!

Silvia

Group C: Letizia e-tivity 2

Hi everybody!

As I like shopping very much and I'm a little a fashion victim, on Technorati I have searched for the tag "shopping". After a search of so many hours on the blogs concerning this term I have found some blogs which I think they are very interesting...

The url of the first blog I suggest to you is: http://mightygoods.com/

This is a shopping weblog, people look for things they really like, then they put them on the blog, where you can find them. I think this is a vey nice idea: you can put the things you want to sell on the blog and at the same time you can buy what you need. Here there's any kind of thing you want, even the most unthinkable and strange, like an embroidered cocktail napkin set, a copper still, an espresso machine, an airplane recycled tire swing and other things like these.

Another interesting blogs, but only for very fashion victims girls is http://outblush.com/ and http://beatyaddict.blogspot.com/

These are blogs for girls who love to shop. There is a staff who digs up the best clothes, home stuff, beauty items and more. New items are posted every week. The staff recommends to bookmark them, sign up for email updates or grab their RSS feed and to send tips and requests.

On these blogs you can find moreover clothes, accessorizes, shoes, shower gel, fragrances, body creams and all the must-haves of the newest make up.

I'm not a make up addict, but, even if I don't like much make up on my face I love make up in general!!! On the second site you can also find an encyclopedia of mascara!!!

http://ethnicdenim.com/fashion-blog is an interesting blog about Overstock.com, a huge selection of jewelry at very competitive prices. From wedding jewelry, earrings, bracelets, necklaces and all the types of rings the selections are tremendous. Overstock gets a lot of their products from leading brand names and since they buy inventory in huge quantities the person that benefits the most is the buyer, with the low prices. If you get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of products on their site then just take a deep breath and use their search function to filter by category, metal, price, size and even gemstone! With jewelry to fit every kind of taste, budget and style you can surely find something that will catch your fancy. If you don’t feel like shopping for yourself then you can buy gift cards for your loved ones.

I have tried to visited another blog that in my opinion could be very interesting but it isn't possible to see the page, I hope you can see it, the site is: http://thebudgetfashionista.com/. It is a blog who teaches te world to be fabulous for less!!!

I have choosen these blogs because I think on it you can find things that normally you don't find in shops!

The style is, in all the blogs I visited, very simple, illustrative and exemplificative. In most of the blogs there are images and next to it an explanation which illustrates and presents a product in a very simple way: I think this is the best way to catch reader's attention. A too long description can be boring!!!

I hope you find interesting the blogs I suggest to you!!!

Bye

Letizia