Gawker Critique
The blog I chose to critique was Gawker. Gawker is a blog site with the self proclaimed slogan " Today's gossip is tomorrow's news".
As of January 2014 Gawker has an estimated monthly visitors of near 22,000,000 and is ranked 413th according to eBiz/MBA (eBusiness/knowledgebase).
After reading the assigned chapters on how blogs are used and created and why I would have to say that Gawker is following the design principles guidelines for a successful blog fairly well. i.e. bold headlines, introductions, subhead, hyperlinks, videos, pod-casts, photographs.
They also execute the inverted pyramid very well, giving a brief description under each hyperlink to get you interested in the article.
My only bad critique would have to be towards the content involved. Is there any truths behind these gossip stories or are they simply hearsay? They (Gawker) openly admit that the "news" stories you are readying are gossip, where we may not know the original source or how reliant that source may be.
I haven't ever used Gawker and a blog like it and don't think I would just for the fact that I'm not keen on not knowing where my information is coming from but design wise, this site works very well.
