The two articles I have picked out are from bloggingtips.com and newmediamusings.com. The one from Blogging Tips is called "7 Reader Friendly Methods of Improving your Blogger Blog" and the blog from New Media Musings is called "Social Media Giving Big Media a Headache".
"7 Reader Friendly Methods of Improving your Blogger Blog" is obviously about improving your personal blog by making it better for the reader. All of the tips are not necessarily about your writing however. For example, one of the tips is to make your blog interesting and unique. This allows for the reader to easily recognize your blog from the other 77 million blogs posted around the web.
I like this post because it made me change a few things about my personal blog. I added a few more photos and like I already said, it makes my blog a little more unique and different. I tried to incorporate as many tips as possible, and I am still trying to figure out a couple, but a couple of the tips were already in my blog so that was nice to know.
The post called "Social Media Giving Big Media a Headache" is an extremely short piece. One of the four sentences is a quote from Adario Strange. He asks, "What will happen when they stop linking to old media and start creating their own media?" I believe this to be very true. It says in the post that "Digg and Wikipedia need sites like the New York Times for reference material." This is true now, but like Strange said, there will be a time where Wikipedia branches off into many other areas in New Media and will not need the likes of the New York Times to help them.
I know this upsets a lot of people, but I think that this is just the fact of New Media. Everything changes all the time. The professors in New Media Communcations at Oregon State University always say that you are going into a major where you have no clue where you are going to end up. This is so because the places where the New Media students are going to work are not necessarily existing yet.
Lastly, the last time the New Media Musings blog was updated was November 18th, 2007, which is a bummer because this post in particular was spot on. It just needed more detail and explanations.
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/05/05/7-reader-friendly-methods-of-improving-your-blogger-blog/
http://www.newmediamusings.com/
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