The group blog - a critical evaluation

A blog about international news sounded just perfect, considering the international background of our group. Our basic idea was to analyse what was being reported in the British media, from this angle.

The target audience of Our Global View were students, people interested in international news and foreigners living in the UK. A continent was allocated to every member of our group and I enjoyed the experience of researching about South American news everyday. I knew beforehand that my continent is often neglected in European media, a fact that I could confirm during the five-day-blogging period. So, I ended up reporting news (published through South American outlets) more than analysing what the British media was saying about South America.

Posting everyday was quite time consuming, especially during the busy time at the end of semester but as I said before, I enjoyed it! The blog platform chosen was definitely not the best one, because it limited our freedom to edit and overwhelmed the editor of our blog, who had to do the entire posting alone. Another thing that was not so good about the platform was its unchangeable opening page. This was reflected as well on the linking process, as all of us would have the same single link for all posts, which would not allowed other bloggers to link with directly with them.

I think I managed to bring to our blog a good sample of what was going on in South America, and I was quite pleased to see that some posts drew comments. They were about my first post on the Brazilian floods and I should have responded to them, but I completely forgot about that.
Considering the positive and negative points, I can say that the experience of group blogging was quite interesting, and I have learned a lot from it.

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