Question: What do you love about Blogging?

Interviewer: Elise Schumacher

Interviewee: Amy Hua

This week we were tasked with completing a hand-drawn interface of our respective blog layouts. “This Must Be The Place” is the title of my blog and it is laid out in a particular way to assist the viewer with navigating in the easiest way possible. Below is my drawing of my current interface.

Copyright: noun

1. the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.

   “he issued a writ for breach of copyright”

This week we covered Copyright Laws and began to understand why they are in place. Copyright Laws have been implemented to protect the content and credibility that media creators like us produce, that legally binds commercial users to provide credit and in some cases, pay for the work that we create.

Below is an image from the website “Pixabay“, that provides users with royalty-free images, vectors, and videos.

Attached are the Terms of Service for Pixabay, as well as the direct link to the image, displaying appropriate use of crediting content.

Image Link: https://pixabay.com/en/email-keyboard-computer-copyright-826333/

Terms of Use: https://pixabay.com/en/service/terms/#usage

This week’s lecture took a “flipped-classroom” format, which required us to use the allocated class time to analyse material and complete tasks. This week we are looking at blog context, as well as its protocols and logics.

We were tasked with finding a blog that we like and relate to, and answer the following questions about it. The blog that I chose is The Happiness Cocktail, by Yaz Trollope.

Link: https://thehappinesscocktail.wordpress.com/

What do you like about it?

• Easy to navigate
• Bright, vivid and inviting
• Appropriate use of header imagery
• Interesting content: lifestyle, travel, beauty and book reviews

Why do you think it works well?

• The navigation of this blog in particular makes it incredibly easy for the user to sieve through the variety of content to find what they are specifically looking for. This can be found under the Menu feature on the left.
• The bright colours complement the general theme of the blog happiness. This is further exemplified by the tags on the posts that keep them organised (e.g. good food, good beauty, good travel, etc.). There is a general aura of positivity around this blog.

How does the author (or editors, publisher) use authoring, publishing and distributing in the online space to get an audience?

• Yaz attracts her target market by publishing a wide range of content across genres, such as travel, lifestyle, beauty, health and food. By doing so, her readership increases majorly because there is something for everyone.