Thursday, October 4, 2007

HW# 17 not really a blog I am watching but connected to it

HW#17

Okay so our assignment was to look at one of the blogs we are watching that we would say made us think, we thought was well written, was informative, or funny. So looking over the three blog that I am watching which are; http://jezebel.com , http://feministing.com/ , http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/index.html?source=rss&aim=broadsheet , I chose out of all the post with in the last seven days one that I liked the most. But here's the thing, as I was looking over the last weeks post one article kept jumping out to me, yeah that's not the weired part, I read the article off of Jezebel but it was an article about an article on http://www.feministe.us which was another blog we could have been watching but I choose not to. Now is that an example of using Robert Scoble's rules or not??? Jezebel needs people to read to her blog, so in order to get more readers she links her blog to other blogs that are like her own. Letting people see her blog and her competitions blog.
The article I chose was an article about how the BMI system is inaccurate. The thing I liked the most was that they incorporated pictures of real woman, you looked at the picture and decide for yourself if they are; overweight, underweight, normal, obese, or ever morbidly obese, then you put the mouse over the picture and it tells you what they are based on the BMI system. By the looks of these pictures I got almost all of them wrong. "The point of the collection is to challenge our ideas of what “overweight” and “obese” look like, and the photo set certainly does that." This article made me think about what I classify as "normal" and "obese", I can tell you that it is definatly not the same as the BMI's classification. But who is right???

1 comment:

Tracy Mendham said...

That counts as being a post in a blog you're watching, definitely. Are you taling about the post called "The Obesity Epidemic, in pictures" at http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2007/10/01/the-obesity-epidemic-in-pictures/?