Spring Break and Blogs

My spring break was nice but it went by wayyyy tooo fasstt!! I filmed Saturday and today alll dayy so I'm exhausted. I didn't do much for break but I went to go see two movies, Remember Me and Hot Tub Time Machine. Remember Me is a cute and pretty decent movie, if you're a fan of Rob you'd most likely like this movie. Hot Tub Time Machine is perfect for anyone who enjoyed The Hangover.

Reading Michael Shanks blogs I realized he pretty much analyzes topics within one blog. Although his blogs are very short, he still introduces his sources, summarizes quotes, pretty much everything that 102 students are suppose to be doing in their papers. The way he connects to his reader is on a professional level but also non professional because of the layout (being a blog). He pretty much writes to inform. One of his blogs that I found interesting is called Behind the Locked Door. This is all about the pieces of art or items that are not displayed in Museums. It interesting how he was able to go to a museum and have access to all of the art in the storage room He even watched students try to figure out information about some of the art in the storage rooms.

A blog I found is called Hot Air, which had a lot of information about what's happening today like Palin or Obama. They pick certain topics and put them up on their website. This website has topics to click one, what's most talked about, and their actual blog which is titled "Quotes of the day". This blogger or these bloggers bring up topics but their tops are much less informative compared to Shanks. They mention their topics and pretty much present one side. I don't feel as connected as a reader reading their topics. It's very caught up in what's going on with Obama's Health Care package and Palin appears a couple of times.

After reading many blogs, its like reading every other thing that gets published; books, magazines, newspapers, articles, etc. The title gives an idea of what the following will be talked about. Something I found in common with many of the blogs are they are speaking out to an audience. Reading them makes it seem like they know they have readers and its a conversation from the blogger to whoever looks at their page. I prefer Michael Shank's writing than Hot Air. Shank's writing is easy and it flows very well. Hot Air's is sort of choppy and almost opinionated. Either way finding blogs that are very interesting to me personally is hard to find.