Shanks

When I first went to the site I was really impressed with the whole presentation of the site. It looked like it had been designed by a professional designer. Besides this blog I have never really had much experience with blogs. I always thought of blogs as very informal and non academic but this was the exact opposite. His postings all had to do with things that he was involved in academically. It seems that this blog was created so he could let other people read his ideas and comment on them without having to go the library or look in a journal for them. The blog is very formal and written in a very academic style. dooce.com also seems to be well written. Much better than what I expected. I felt that Shanks blog was much more formal than dooce.com. It seemed to be looking at things academically, while dooce was more of a informal approach to things.