Buzzmachine.com

So, when this was assigned I assumed that it was going to be another news oriented site. Well, I got a surprise because in my opinion, it wasn't at all. In fact, it was more or less a blog! How exciting....

So I read a little bit to see what had to be said. I read thinking maybe this guy keeps a blog on current events, news, that is happening in the world. The first thing I read was a comparison of first class flights from two different airlines. The second was a video from YouTube of IdolCritic. The third thing I read was something about a megapaper and innovation and combing the two. I was confused a bit, I guess I don't get it! Speaking of not getting it, there were links within this piece about getting it and not getting it, and if clicked on it didn't take you to a new website that may have offered new information about the subject, but took you to a previous blog post. Interesting.

As assigned, I dug around into the archives buzzmachine.com had listed. I didn't want to choose an archive from a month ago, because that to me really isn't digging deep. So I decided to go into the March 2006 archive, from one year ago. A year ago he discussed the coming about of TiVo in "Exploding TV." In this piece he actually linked to another site, not just another past blog! WOW! He linked to a Reuters article about this subject. Unfortunately, when I clicked on the link to see if this link was relevant to what was site, the page was no longer available.

It seems that every time he links to an outside source he has to one up them and link again to buzzmachine.com.

As far as multimedia is concerned, I didn't notice too much. The only real multimedia feature I found was the YouTube video of IdolCritic. I guess American Idol still is news! Or maybe it's just a way to get people to read what you have to say? I don't know, I HATE American Idol, I think it's pointless as is most of television today. And it's not even like any of the Idol winners are doing amazingly well, with the exception of Kelly Clarkson...maybe because she broke away from Simon's brothers record label who all winners are forced to sign with?!?! I mean whatever happened to the last winner, whose name escapes me at the moment? And what ever happened to that really big guy who had one song that I wouldn't even consider a hit, or a one hit wonder for that matter? I guess American Idol is important news, even just to blog about...hey I just blogged about it so it must be important!

One feature, that I'll admit, I liked was how it had key tag words or phrases telling the readers what a post was about. I think this made it easier for people to decide if they wanted to read whatever that specific blog was about.

I didn't find this site to be interactive, except if you include the fact that you can e-mail the creator. But is that really interactivity? I mean, Paris Hilton fan sites offer a contact? So is that interactivity? In comparison to the other sites reviewed, this site isn't interactive in my opinion...but maybe I just could not find the interactivity.

I don't like blogs...I don't like reading them...I don't like writing them. I understand this is like the way of writing for the future, but I'm an old fashioned kind of gal. As much as I hate news oriented sites, I'd take one over a blog any day!