Respond to your group's questions in the comments here: be sure to include links in your response to the relevant information. Write out your question(s) before you answer, so others will know to what you're responding. Also make sure that YOUR NAMES are included at the end of the comment, as only one person can be tagged as author of the comment.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
BoingBoing and Google
Respond to your group's questions in the comments here: be sure to include links in your response to the relevant information. Write out your question(s) before you answer, so others will know to what you're responding. Also make sure that YOUR NAMES are included at the end of the comment, as only one person can be tagged as author of the comment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Who are they? Can we find out?
ReplyDeleteBoingBoing.net Blog "starters" were pretty easy to find. They are Mark Frauenfelder, Cory Doctorow David Pescovitz and Xeni Jardin, who are the editors of BoingBoing.net. When you scroll down the page, there is a box on the right hand side that sort of looks like an advertisement, but when you read it, it shows all the names of the editors, the managing editors, contributing editors, and the partner. At first, we didn't think it was going to be easy to find it, but they made it very clear and easy.
For the google blog, it gives a background history of who the partners are and how google decided to own it. At first it was called blogger and started in San Fransico, in 1999. They were 3 friends that created blogger "more less on a win". It started to take off over the years and started to grow. In 2002, they have hundreds of thousands of users and then google decided to buy them. They are still a team now for google, but we don't know their names. So they are mentioned on the site, but their names are still anonymous.
Debra and Tiffany
Who is the audience of the blog? Who is it appealing to, and how do these people interact? Why do they join in?
ReplyDeleteThe Google blog is targeted more towards people who work for Google, people who use Google for their companies, and big corporate businesses who are looking for new ideas. It has a lot of information about Google, and tells people what's new and gives them ideas. People join to see what's going on with the company and get important news about it. If you have stock in the company for example, you'd want to check and see how it's doing. One noticeable thing about this blog is that others can't leave comments. The point is to be more informative than interactive.
BoingBoing is much more interactive. It allows people to comment on the content that is posted there. Wikipedia discusses how the site is a "directory of wonderful things". It contains a lot of different random topics including technology, science fiction, gadgets, and Disney. The audience of this blog could be someone who is interested in science, technology, and current events, and how these are related to each other. There are pictures, videos, etc. for people to look at. It has links for you to share content on your Twitter or Facebook page. It's very interactive people can use it to discuss the things that are posted there.
-Derek and Caroline
How do BoingBoing and the Offical Google Blog build a network of followers?
ReplyDeleteBoingBoing:
Has a visually stimulating site. Each story has a large image to accompany it, and there is a good use of color.
Has alternative, entertaining news that is updated frequently. Stories are also compact and easy to read.
The site is easy to use. It is not difficult to find specific stories or look at general subjects.
Is easy to follow on the site, through RSS feed, podcasts, and on facebook.
Readers are able to subscribe to BoingBoing and comment directly on stories.
Official Google Blog:
Has relevant information on the google search engine. Helps google users utilize the search engine more fully and accurately. Updates users on new google features.
Mix of computer education and current events.
Can be followed on the site, through RSS feed, and via facebook.
Name & History of BoingBoing & google
ReplyDeleteGoo-gol
n. the number 10 raised to the power of 100 (10100) written out as the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros
The History of Google
bOINGbOING.com
bOING bOING was first established as a magazine then later became a group blog.
In 1988 it was originally launched as a zine. In 1995 became a website and in 2000 it became what it is today, a group blog.
After searching Google for the history of BoingBoing.com we have come to the conclusion that Google is much easier to search for than Boingboing.com due to its mass trafficking. Google is more mainstream while Boingboing.com appears to be more underground.
We were asked the question, "How do they intergrate other media?" We have been looking at the boingboing site and noticing several things. One of the things we have noticed is that they have a lot of new and interesting news, along with the pictures that draw us in. We also noticed at the bottom of every page there are four little boxes for comments. One is the "retweet" button for those of us who use twitter and want to comment on it. There is the Facebook logo for those of us who want to comment through facebook. There is also an envelope for those who want to e-mail a comment and there is a little bubble for other comments. This allows any reader to comment on the particular story through any site they prefer. Also many people can read other peoples thoughts which can be interesting to many of us. The Boing Boing site shown here, really captures readers by the colors, the pictures and the stories.
ReplyDeleteAnother site that incorporates a lot of media is facebook. Whenever we log in and look at our profile page, there are always at least two or three ads on the far right hand side. This is how facebook gets money for their site. Some of us may find it annoying, but some people do get sucked into the other sites.
As we looked at the Official Google blog we noticed that they do not have as much other media intergrated here. They have some links that directly link to donate to Haiti after the tragic earthquake several weeks ago. They have some stories too, but some of them lack pictures. We are not necessarily saying that every story has to have a picture because it doesn't. However, we believe that it does draw readers in. Every picture that is shown on the blog is from google directly. We believe if they incorporated other types of media such as videos, and links to other blogs, it would be more popular.
Cat and John
What non-verbal communication to create images and convey who they are? How do they make it appealing?
ReplyDeleteBoingBoing uses lots of pictures and large bold fonts to convey their information. Their website is full of different articles but the pictures they show are visually appealing because they lead you to read the articles so you can connect the photo and text. They use very plain font and a basic layout but it seems a little cluttered. Once you click one article you are led to another which is a good trick for reader's to stay on your website. The website is still appealing even though there are so many articles.
Google has many nonverbal features which demonstrates what they represent. One feature called extensions, let's the person add new features and functions to their web browser. For example, just one click can take you to your favorite web application, such as Ebay. Other extensions can be used to browse photos, get directions, or shop online. Another cool feature is called bookmark sync. If you're constantly using more than one computer throughout the day then this can be handy for you. Enabling bookmark sync allows the user to synchronize all bookmarks on all the computers used. Google also makes a number of daily enhancements to their search features, as well. Now Google has launched hours and menu information if you want to browse for the hours or menu to your favorite restaurant. This makes it appealing to the user because it is quick, easy, and enjoyable. A fourth feature called answer highlighting helps the user to get information more quickly by delivering the likely answer to your question in boldface type.
Sarah and Ashley
How do we measure the success of Boing Boing and The Official Google Blog?
ReplyDeleteForbes Article
Google is a highly successful company it is envied by its rivals. Google was started by two grad students in computer science. The first funding came in 1998 with a fund of $100,000 and then the rest of its funding came from individual investors, large institutional funding, and mutual funds. Google generates its profits from the advertising bought from its free to use email, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing. 99% of Google's revenue is derived from advertising programs. Two of Google's high ranking executives Gideon Yu and Sheryl Sandburg had left Google in pursue of other opportunities and one of the companies were Facebook. I would deem Google as a highly succesful company, I use google nearly everyday as well as a ton of other users.
Boing Boing is successful because it has people visit there site. In a matter of two hours they had 20 people follow a post on twitter. That's not even saying that that's all that looked at it. That's saying 20 people found it important. Boing Boing has an opinion to share it on facebook. To have an opinion like this there has to be followers. they also have many ads and that means for someone to sponsor them they would have to have some kind of popularity.
Samantha Scully