Quality Criteria: AKA121

Photo by Dinuraj K

Out of the list of blogs given, I picked AKA121. The title of the blog doesn't particularly stand out. The following is my quality criteria.

• Voice: 7
•   The authors of this blog each have a voice of their own, but not many of them are very engaging or exciting.
• Passion/Expertise: 7
• Though the authors have an idea of what they are talking about, they are not very passionate to write a blog for an English class.
• Clarity/Organization: 10
•  The blog itself is very simple and organized. The blog posts vary in structure only slightly depending on the subject and the included picture is always at the end.
• Aesthetically Pleasing: 7
•  The blog isn't displeasing to look at but it could definitely look nicer. The authors could try to learn the software a bit better and use text links instead of copying and pasting links into the blog so crudely.
• User Friendly: 10
•  The blog layout isn't very complicated and the stark, simple black text on a white background is easy to read.
• Interesting/Original: 7
•  It's hard to be interesting and original with a topic that the authors don't find particularly interesting but the pictures used in the blog definitely help draw interest to the blog. In fact, my favorite part of this blog happens to be the pictures.
• Relevance: 10
•  The posts seem to follow the class and are completely relevant to what I am experiencing in the same class on a different day.
• Frequency: 6
•  The authors are not posting every day, they only seem to post weekly at most. Though it seems to yet again exactly follow the schedule of my class.
• Good Writing: 8
• The writing on this blog is fairly simple and straight forward. It's somewhat bland in most posts but there are some posts where the writing is more thought out, careful, and fluent.

AKA121 isn't a bad blog but considering the content and the visual of it, I personally would not follow it.