Week 2 - Purpose, Audience, Genre - Task #2

Q. What blog did you choose?
A. I chose to investigate the One Million Footnotes blog found at http://onemillionfootnotes.blogspot.com/.

Q. Who is this blog directed to – who is the audience?
A. This blog appears to be directed to anyone who will listen and read the random musings of the author, Geof Huth.

Q. What is the central focus of the blog?
A. Geof described this blog's prospectus as "Footnotes to a nonexistent book, a series of observations, a novel without the plot, the autobiography of an imagination, linked poetry of the everyday world, an impossible goal." Each entry is written as a glimpse into a larger more complicated story that we are left to only wonder about.

Q. What kind of theme or design strategies did the author use?
A. Geof used a basic Blogger template to setup his blog and the format works effectively as it chroniclizes the footnotes in descending order.

Q. Do you find this blog useful/interesting/well designed? Why or why not?
A. Although the fact that you are only receiving a one sentence story that often is written very confusingly, I do find this blog to be intriguing. It motivates analysis of the author's thought and writing process and seems like a useful exercise to generate innovative ideas.

Q. What other information might you like to see in this blog, or what other kind of design could the author have used that might have been effective?
Although for the purposes it serves this blog features everything it should, it would be nice to see further explanation on the footnotes themselves. But then again I guess that would defeat the purpose of them being called footnotes.

Q. How is the author constructing his/her/their digital identity?
A. When you view Geof Huth's profile you discover that he participates in a long list of blogs. In each one he reveils a little bit about his style and personality and by investigating each one in whole you can piece together the digital persona that Geof wants to exude.

Q. What are the similarity and differences in their approaches?
A. In this case, there is only one author so therefore their is no one to compare his approach to.