Best Week Ever Comedy at the Expense of the TV Industry

This week in class we were once more required to review a blog that was similar to a personal blog hat was based on a topic of our choice. In case you didn't remember my personal blog is entitled Across The Airwaves which focuses on news and opinions about the television industry. However before we get into reviewing this week's blogs I thought I would introduce the four parameters my reviews are going to be based on.

Layout: This refers to the look of the page such as if it is easy to read, if it is cluttered with advertisements or where the blogs information is posted on the web page.

Writing: This parameter explores how well a blog is written. For example, when looking at a blog I might ask myself are there any typos, is it presenting factual information, or does the writing come off as humorous or entertaining?

Content: Focuses on how well the blog stays on topic. Does it stick to the topic of television or does it tend to wander around in different types of media? Also this parameter looks to see if the blog sticks to a particular pattern with its posts or if the author is completely random.

Media: Refers to how well a blog author uses pictures, hyperlinks, and video to support his writing and the point he is trying to get across in each post.

The first blog we are going to explore is entitled Best Week Ever and it is sponsored by the television network VH1.

Layout: The information posted on the site in the blog is very easy to locate because it is centered in the middle of the page and matched up with fairly large headlines and dates. The only downfall is the site contains many animated advertisements which can be distracting but they are pushed off to the right hand side preventing them from making the blog difficult to read.

Writing: On the blog there weren't any typos mainly because it is run by a professional company. The information written on the blog also appeared as factual by making statements whose text was attached to a hyperlink that led to resources used by the author such as a clip to a TV show a blog post is talking about. The blog is also written in a way that is humorous but not offensive because the blog's authors tend to make fun of everything from bad TV shows to Michael Phelps and Sarah Palin.

Content: Even though the blog is listed as primarily focusing on TV, it tends to reach all over the Entertainment industry from celebrity sightings and movies to videos on YouTube. Also the blog's authors do not seem to follow a pattern with their posts. Normally they tend to focus on humorous things about the Entertainment industry but on occasion a TV or movie based news stories will pop up but the parameters of what makes a news story worthy to be posted on the blog seems unclear. However based on my observations this decision seems to be up to the writers discretion.

Media: The media on the blog is utilized successfully by movie clips being used to emphasize why Chicago is still a great city even though it did not get chosen for the Olympics. As for the pictures they are used to support the humor featured on the blog. For example an author on the blog was making fun of how boring the cover of Sarah Palin's book is and to support his joke he created this image...

The blog also does a good job of posting hyperlinks without distracting the reader through sentences that say click here for more information instead they attach the hyperlink to phrases that are written in a way that describes what each link is about while still allowing the author of the post to express his point.

Final Thought: Best Week Ever is a great site for a good laugh at the expense of Hollyweird but if you are looking for general TV news you might want to try somewhere else.