Thursday, March 27, 2014

iReport on CNN

I enjoyed this website, I liked its wide variety of news being offered. both local and national. It is easy to navigate but does take a moment to find something specific if that is what you are after. I liked its scroll feature that is used to cover the most "important" stories of the day.
It is a very bold bright and clean website which I also thought was really cool. Websites these days are overly cluttered and sometimes hard to to tell what is advertisement versus what are stories pertaining to the website.
The other thing I liked about this website is the fact that they post rebuttal posts. For an example there was a video about a Mom being a "Pinterest Mom", saying she creates her activities and whatnot from the website Pinterest. While right below it was another video of a Mom who said she doesn't use Pinterest but creates activities anyway, it was neat to see two sides of that story and have such easy access to both.
So over all I give this website a B!

Monday, March 10, 2014

Rugby Slideshow Critiques

http://usarugby.org/youth-news/item/inspiring-program-documentary-making-waves-around-the-world

The gallery I looked at is a gallery within an article on the USARUGBY.com site. I'm a huge fan of rugby and after playing all weekend I was excited to see some photo galleries. I chose this article because of its inspirational message about The Inner City Education Foundation Public Schools in Los Angeles. The gallery itself was more inspirational and had beautiful pictures than it did actual Rugby play, which I did sort of like since I've seen plenty of pictures of tackles. The photos are very well done and the article just made them better.


http://tripwow.tripadvisor.com/slideshow/united-states/n2-rugby.html

I googled Rugby Slideshows and clicked on the first link which was a trip advisor site and I assumed that it would be a slideshow of Rugby games but in fact it was a slideshow of Rugby, Tennessee which  I found hilarious and decided to watch the entire segment. The music is a little lame but the pictures are great and maybe I will add to my bucket list to visit Rugby, Tennessee!

http://www.deeside-rfc.co.uk

I had a hard time finding a slideshow for the sport rugby, I came across this one and was very disappointed. It doesn't engage people. there isn't a lot of information and it lacks any sort of motivation to continue looking at it.