Gizmodo (Conor Keane 09003855)

Student: Conor Keane (09003855)

Chosen blog: Gizmodo

Authors
Gizmodo is a community blog with many contributing authors including:
Editorial Director: Brian Lam
Editor: Jason Chen
Features Editor: Wilson Rothman
Senior Contributing Editor: Jesus Diaz, Mark Wilson (Reviews)
Contributing Editors:
Matt Buchannan
Adam Frucci
Sean Fallon
Jack Loftus
John Herrman
Dan Nosowitz
Chris Mascari
Danny Allen
Columnist: Brendan Koerner

Target audience:
Gizmodo targets all fans of technology, from the layman to the über-geek.

Topics
Tech news including new products, policies and concepts.

Language, graphics, and embedded artifacts:
The language on the site varies with the topic of the posts, most of which can be understood by the common user. Most, if not all, of the posts utilize pictures to showcase the subject matter and many involve embedded video from popular video-sharing sites such as YouTube or Vimeo

Frequency of posts:
50 - 80 a day

Chosen post:
Still don’t know what Google Wave is all about? This two minute animation might help.

This is by far my favorite post out of the three weeks I was following Gizmodo.
I have been hearing about Google Wave for a while now and the videos Google had produced were too long and technical for even the most technical layman like myself to understand just exactly what it is…
So a simplified explanation of the basics was presented in this post via a YouTube video and it really made sense to me after I watched it…
I now understand Google Wave to be Google’s re-invention of the e-mail, utilizing “cloud” computing to share documents, files, and emails with a number of users in one centralized location instead of a plethora of forwarded and replied-to emails to sort through…
I look forward to being able to utilize this new tool in my daily life.

My comments (All Gizmodo):
There was one problem with making comments on Gizmodo:
They make you audition your account before they will approve your comments.
I started making comments 3 weeks ago and I am still waiting for my account to be approved on the site, which is why you will not see my comments until they change my status.

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I also followed these blogs:

UberGizmo
-Very similar to Gizmodo but with less writers and posts.

iPhoneSavior
-Mainly iPhone products, apps, and some quirky Mac related links too.

I am looking forward to my continued subscription to these blogs…