Accomplishments are > Then Fame...

I analyzed The City Page's Corpus Obscurum which basically is giving praise to a few whom have had their accomplishments exceed their fame. This site uses many conventions, but mainly hyperlinks, WHICH LEAD TO POP-UPS... MANY POP-UPS.... The site is organized into different small blogs that give a brief description to the person's accomplishments and what they are famous for. The small blogs are specific and strait to the point giving causes of death first and then jumping into a small life story. The People chosen for the blog seem like they should have been famous, but apparently not. All of the blogs were posted by Corey Anderson. There are pictures relating to the deceased person in some form or another. Although the pictures themselves are not hyper linked to other information that would related to the subjects. The set up of the page is relatively normal as it is nice and neat, BUT... on the right side of the page there are a series of adds that almost constitute for have the page. There are also adds on the top of the page. The adds almost distract the reader with flashing avatars and changing text proving to be difficult to read if easily distracted. Each blog is posted individually usually days after the one before. Corey clearly sites his sources for each blog assuring the reader that time was spent on each subject and that it is all correct. The blogs are more factual based rather then opinion and feelings which, after a while, tend bore the reader. The blogs are all comment-less but one. The last blog, which is really catching, is about a Vietnam War conscientious objector who had flown for the air force for eleven years and was asked by the military to train pilots for the Vietnam War, and when he legally objected through courts he was punished by the military and was placed in prison for one year. This is the only blog that was commented because it was related to by the reader. This is what makes a good blog, something that people can relate to so that it is a fun read and not just some wack post. This blog is very un-similar to my blogs being that it is so factual but I think if I incorporate more facts and hyperlinks into my blogs they will be a better read. Although I hope to never blog on a site that consists of half adds half blogs because it is just annoying and ridiculous. Over all I think that the reader is number one because with out them a blog is nothing, so style and tone is number two.