HW18: Jezebel seems pretty reliable to me!
After I read Scboles “rules” for blogs I went onto the “Blogs I’m Watching” and looked at an article on Jezebel about a woman who claims after she had sex for the first time, she was reborn and again a virgin later on. I think that some of the things in the article that lived up to Scoble’s rules were that, I’m pretty sure it told the truth because in the article it said, “She had sex for the first time when she was 16, but always felt guilty” (Jezebel). I think that if they weren’t telling the truth they would have left out the part that she was so young when she actually lost her virginity. They definitely used a human voice throughout the article, their wording was simple and interesting and definitely down to earth, making it easy for almost any reader to understand. I think some things that the blog didn’t have was that they never lie, I think that in this particular blog post they didn’t lie, but whose to say that Jezebel has never actually lied in any of their articles. I also think that they might have hid information in this article, I feel like it was very vague and there was definitely more to the story than they actually let us here, I think the blog would have been better if we maybe got more details. I think that these principles of the Corporate Weblog Manifesto are applicable to the blogs that you look at. I think that some things could be changed because they seem a little extreme, but for the most part everything works out good, and is a good way to decide if the blog is good or not.
