Critique of Student Bloggers
Student Bloggers is a blog that has the main objective of building connections between blogs, bloggers, and blog readers. The blogger behind this site is a college student; his target audience includes college students and bloggers. Some of the typical types of blog posts that you will find on Student Bloggers are student stories and featured blogs of the day.
A rather unique perspective
The best thing that Student Blogges has is its unique perspective. Yes, there are numerous other sites out there that seek to link blogs together, but what makes Student Bloggers unique is that it takes an unbiased approach to its aim. Other sites with a similar concept normally link together blogs from a single college or university, or link together blogs about prestigious universities. Student Bloggers, on the other hand, links together practically any student blog, as long as it conforms with the three rules posted on the blog’s “About” page.
Room for improvement
Although Student Bloggers has a good concept, the execution of this concept can be improved. First, the web design and layout needs a revamp. The site looks like a typical blog, with no personality to catch the attention and interest of the visitors. Furthermore, the website lacks color. Although some of the blogs have pictures, the blog site itself doesn’t have much decoration. The layout should also be improved for more convenient navigation and to make it easier on the eyes. Looking through webpages can be a pain on the eyes–both literally and figuratively — and when you have a cluttered layout it only makes it harder for your visitors. Finally, I suggest that Student Blogger increases the number of articles on its page. Most of the blog posts are just “featured blogs of the day,” but there isn’t much original content being produced by the Student Blogger authors.
April 16th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
This is a website, in which literally gives the meaning of a website. It’s a vast and intricate connection of blogs and more blogs, with students running each and every blog to ensure that they are written with passion and filled with high-quality content. But, you may ask, what do students earn from doing this? Well, there are some companies nowadays that offer students money for the traffic their blog site generate, and knowing that Student Blogger is a vast network of blog sites in which one is linked to another, it wouldn’t be surprising if a student would be able to support himself throughout his educational years if all goes well and traffic is very good. The downside is, there are only a few of these so-called “companies” who are legit and pay a substantial amount of cash for the traffic your website generates throughout a given period of time. Second, students learn to coordinate with one another and disregard any racial discrimination they may have had with other races in the past. This gives them time to know each other more. That is because a written piece is usually the reflection of a writer’s attitude and character. Third, if you may be asking how they make sure that this is filled with high-quality content? Well, students review each other’s blog. However, therein comes a flaw in that system because students are far less capable than their teachers, and although most of these students are not your stereotypical students that take school easy, they still lack the experience and maturity of a capable and well-developed writer and reviewer. Plus the fact that these students tend to be boastful in what they right, and fill their articles with highfalutin which are rather an unpleasant site because of the fact that they add to the burden of the dullness and lifelessness of the entire network.