Blog Genre Analysis Continued: Audiences
It seems that most tech. bloggers assume that those reading/listening/watching have a good understanding of technology. They rarely go into much detail concerning some of the complex operations they are discussing or explain what a particular figure of descriptive measurement actually means. It is understandable at least to me as a tech. head I’m usually just listening for the numbers and have a general notion of what the pertinent bits of information mean.
A lot of people are likely alienated by the rich language of tech. blogs but it doesn’t bother the target audience. The target audience are usually professionals and consultants already familiar with the language of the business. It seems to me that the tech. blog audience is not afraid of participating by leaving a great number of comments. Almost holding entire discussions in the frame of comments. How much of this discourse is allowed is moderated by the blogger.
TWiT appears to only very sparingly moderate by excluding only the most obvious unsolicited advertisements, Diggnation doesn’t allow comments at all and Dvorak approves comments manually which means he only allows those comments that he believes pertinent.
TWiT encourages its followers and even refers to them as the TWiT army. TWiT makes it quite clear that they are doing this for the recognition and fun of producing something from the ground up.
Diggnation doesn’t connect quite so much with its audience. I get the impression they put on the show to wind down and have some fun while sharing the experience with the world.
Dvorak is a spiky kind of guy whom I think just blogs for his own amusement and sometimes to let fly some gripes he has with whatever news crosses his path.
A lot of people are likely alienated by the rich language of tech. blogs but it doesn’t bother the target audience. The target audience are usually professionals and consultants already familiar with the language of the business. It seems to me that the tech. blog audience is not afraid of participating by leaving a great number of comments. Almost holding entire discussions in the frame of comments. How much of this discourse is allowed is moderated by the blogger.
TWiT appears to only very sparingly moderate by excluding only the most obvious unsolicited advertisements, Diggnation doesn’t allow comments at all and Dvorak approves comments manually which means he only allows those comments that he believes pertinent.
TWiT encourages its followers and even refers to them as the TWiT army. TWiT makes it quite clear that they are doing this for the recognition and fun of producing something from the ground up.
Diggnation doesn’t connect quite so much with its audience. I get the impression they put on the show to wind down and have some fun while sharing the experience with the world.
Dvorak is a spiky kind of guy whom I think just blogs for his own amusement and sometimes to let fly some gripes he has with whatever news crosses his path.
posted by JC at 5:21 PM
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