Welcome to ODU 366 Class Blog!

This blog has been created for the class of "Public Journalism in the Digital Age" taught by Dr. Jinsun Lee in the Spring semester of 2011 at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA. Each student will develop his/her own blog and network with bloggers.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Katy Townsley

The Slashdot blog encourages bloggers to focus on scientific and technological issues, or as they say "stuff that matters." They do a lot of linking and "tagging" so that readers can easily find similar subjects and topics throughout the site. When submitting stories they emphasize the importance of writing a clear, simple subject links. They allow authors to remain anonymous but regulate and filter what stories will be accepted or rejected.

OhmyNews focuses on international issues. They focus on a broad range of topics such as art, entertainment, sports, etc.

The difference in these blogs is that OhmyNews as a larger variety of topics which makes it easier to everyone to find something interesting. OhmyNews uses more pictures and is more appealing to the eye. They have more user-friendly features such as feedback and FAQs. They also have a more organized website with subjects separated into categories. Each website requires the reader to be a user and have a login to reply to posts.

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