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.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Matthew McCracken

Blogging is an easy, efficient way of getting news out to a large variety of audiences around the world. With many blog sites having different ideas and views, it is important to check out all to see which one interests you the most. Although this could take a while, it is worth it to see which site interests you more, and why. Indy Media and English OhmyNews are two well-respected blog sites, but are way different when it comes to lay-out and information derived from them.

To start things off, Indy Media offers an "about me" section that describes what their blog site is all about. In that description, they mention the fact that they created their site to cover the "creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth." English OhmyNews on the other hand covers local news around the world. They cover subjects such as Science, technology, entertainment, sports, art & life, and global watch. Although they are both blogging sites, their messages they are trying to portray are different in the fact that Indy Media is more about race and culture while OhmyNews covers many aspects of news around the world.

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