Blog Evaluation

Before taking this class I didn't have much experience with blogs. I was first introduced to in when going to a presentation about obesiety oppression and the blogosphere. When I went to this I realized that there were a lot of people who are using blogs. That is all the experience I have had though.

I think blogs can be useful. They can be good when researching different opinions. Some blogs can be good for research and some can't be, it just depends.

For my topic I used a blog titled "The Homeless Guy". The author has posts from many years ago. The main purpose of the blog was to raise awareness for homelessness and get people to suppport  it. There was a lot of interesting posts just on general information and how you can help a homeless person.

The one I found most interesting was titled Why do people become homeless. The link is below.
http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/2011/01/why-do-people-become-homeless.html
The author talks about different ways people become homeless and he stresses the difference beteween "why" and "how". This post was good for general information and helping people understand and syphathize with a homeless person. I thought it was more of his own definition of why. Based on what I have learned I thought some facts were left out about how they become homeless. They could lose their house from natural disaster or war and he fails to mention that. Overall, I thought the post was informative but it lacked some information.

The Homeless Guy. (2012 March 12). [web log comment]. Retrieved from http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/