Blog assignment 1

The first reading concentrates on many key issues that state what the Internet is mainly being used for. The Internet is a big place, and when you can say that the majority of things happening on the Internet are the use of search engines. And when you think about it, Google is used in almost everyday life, whether it looking up information on any given subject or locating a certain place or even to spell a word. The first reading waste no time in order to centralize on key aspects and concentrate on specific details. In this aspect I believe that it is a very good example of good writing on the Internet. It answers many questions and give a variety of bullet points, phrased and terms that are explained, expanded upon or defined. Ike the phrase, no stone left unturned, this article leaves very little information covered and doesn’t overload you with information. Each aspect is clearly defined and there are hypertext links throughout the article which can lead you to other sites which re-enforces the first thing you read in this article, “If your content isn’t good enough to attract good, natural links, it doesn’t matter how ‘optimized’ that content is.” Two websites that prove to have good writing are Rotten Tomatoes and Yahoo. Bear with me, but rotten tomatoes is essentially a website where movies are critiqued and reviewed, and if you want to know about a movie before seeing it, that’s the website to go to, nothing to distract you from its goal, just movie reviews. As for Yahoo, it is essentially like Google except it has a variety of links and that are news stories and interest bits that make you keep going back to the site. The second reading however I found to be a tad bit distracting. It took away from the main point of the article. It was on how social networking sites will change the world, yet there small areas where the reading goes off in a tangent talking about how they arrived at a conclusion or about what they did, just nonsense that takes away from the reading instead of adding to it, in my opinion. The two websites that I believe show bad writing are Newgrounds and Cards-n-Toons. These two websites, Newgrounds and Cards-n-Toons were ones that I visited when I was younger, ones that didn’t change the format and continued along the trend of success that worked 10 years ago. But by todays standards that doesn’t apply. If it wasn’t for this blog assignment I would’ve forgot about these two websites and they would’ve faded into obscurity.

The readings


Good writing


Bad writing