Blog post #3 Purpose, A Computer blog

For my blog post this week I chose a blog written by Zach Duncan, which can be found here. What I find very interesting about this blog is that with each new post, he also includes a source so that his readers can check for authenticity.

On top of the source, he always adds a visual representation that relates to the subject he is talking about; this helps readers choose at a glance whether or not it is something they are interested in.

What I had expected when first arriving at the site was confirmed first when looked to the immediate right, I noticed there where adds for computer accessories and even a link to a website offering to rent computers. This really came as no surprise as I'm sure the ads are there for addition monetary gains which may be used to contribute to future blogging endeavours.

Now the second thing I had expected was some sort of affiliation with a company promoting him to report in a biased way; however I was surprised to find out that he was posting on various problems and details on a variety of  computer companys/softwares. For example on the very first page I came across two separate posts, one regarding a security flaw in Mozilla Firefox 16, which was recently released (Was allowing third party sources to have access to the websites that individual computers had visited previously.) And the other one regarding a security flaw that was discovered in the Internet Explorer browser this flaw however (Was allowing any site with malicious software access into the PC and giving permission to install a "Back-door trojan, known as Poison Ivy"). Having both of these, suggested to me, that he was not affiliated with any particular company, and further reading of his article would prove this.

The frequency of his posts seem to have a every Thursday/Friday kind of rotation so it would be hard to suggest that it is for any reason other than convenience .  

From further inspection of the blog I concluded that the author was not trying to push computer gadgets on his viewers, but simply trying to disseminate knowledge about the goods and bads of the computer industry which can and does effect us all.