Blog Genre Analysis
Setting the stage for tech. blogs. The stories that make up a tech. blog seems to be in the eye of the beholder of technology. Some restrict themselves to circuits and silicon while others comment on organizations, politics, and what some might consider mundane technologies. For this assignment I followed three blogs.
This Week in Tech. AKA TWiT
http://www.thisweekintech.com/
Episodes 23-25
Diggnation
http://www.revision3.com/diggnation/
Episodes 12-14
John C. Dvorak's Blog
http://www.dvorak.com/blog
September 25th-Oct 8th
All tech blogs seem to follow a news editorial or commentary format bringing up stories from other sources to discuss implications and posit speculations concerning corporate motives, new products, public policy concerning technologies and sometimes science news concerning new disconveries. Tech. Blogs also often review products and services first hand. Then they report their opinions to the consumers of their blog. Each blog is heavily influenced by remediation of antecedant genres that are spilling in from the bloggers familiarity with other media and connections with other media audiences.
TWiT is the brain child of Leo Laporte a long time Tech. Radio and TV personality from the San Fransisco area. He models his audio blog in the form of a panel broadcast with a group of friends whom are tech. heads and gear heads. It is the genre of radio that he is very comfortable with and stuctures his broadcast conciously or possibly unconciously around his experiences with that form of audio broadcasting.
Diggnation is more of a tech. blog news filtering entity but they still handle stories akin to TWiT and interject their own opinions and speculations in their reports. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht both along side on Leo Laport hosted a TV series The Screen Savers on the now non-existent TechTV Television Network. I believe both Kevin and Alex were equally influenced by the format of Screen Savers and Digg gives them a great source for stories and keeps them rolling, as with all the other bloggers in my analysis, they have day jobs that keep them busy.
John Dvorak is more inclusive in what he chooses to include in his blog. It is heavily influenced by his position as tech. columnist for several publications.
This Week in Tech. AKA TWiT
http://www.thisweekintech.com/
Episodes 23-25
Diggnation
http://www.revision3.com/diggnation/
Episodes 12-14
John C. Dvorak's Blog
http://www.dvorak.com/blog
September 25th-Oct 8th
All tech blogs seem to follow a news editorial or commentary format bringing up stories from other sources to discuss implications and posit speculations concerning corporate motives, new products, public policy concerning technologies and sometimes science news concerning new disconveries. Tech. Blogs also often review products and services first hand. Then they report their opinions to the consumers of their blog. Each blog is heavily influenced by remediation of antecedant genres that are spilling in from the bloggers familiarity with other media and connections with other media audiences.
TWiT is the brain child of Leo Laporte a long time Tech. Radio and TV personality from the San Fransisco area. He models his audio blog in the form of a panel broadcast with a group of friends whom are tech. heads and gear heads. It is the genre of radio that he is very comfortable with and stuctures his broadcast conciously or possibly unconciously around his experiences with that form of audio broadcasting.
Diggnation is more of a tech. blog news filtering entity but they still handle stories akin to TWiT and interject their own opinions and speculations in their reports. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht both along side on Leo Laport hosted a TV series The Screen Savers on the now non-existent TechTV Television Network. I believe both Kevin and Alex were equally influenced by the format of Screen Savers and Digg gives them a great source for stories and keeps them rolling, as with all the other bloggers in my analysis, they have day jobs that keep them busy.
John Dvorak is more inclusive in what he chooses to include in his blog. It is heavily influenced by his position as tech. columnist for several publications.
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