Week 2: My Personal Review of engadget.com

Blogs! how I love thee. One of my personal favorite technological blog sites is http://www.engadget.com/. This site updates information and gives a review about new and innovative technology. Engadget’s purpose -rather what it is famous for- is infringing upon technological rumors and shedding light on them with photo evidence and/ or research. As technology develops, many people are unsure about different things or have no idea what is out there.

Many blogs tend to rant about current issues, however, Engadget is completely distinctive. Engadget.com provides a background behind the nature of the product, how it works, and the pros and cons of this product.

Another distinctive feature Engadget has over other ‘typical blogs’ is how they organize their content. Instead of having to search for postings by month, Engadget achives their data based on different types of techonology. For instances, if you needed to research for a new cellphone and wanted something new, hip, up to date and practical. All one would have to do is look in the site’s archives under phones and immediately, you would be brought to Apple’s iphone. This feature makes browsing this site easy and user friendly.

I found Engadget’s content to be valuable because geeks like myself love to know what is buzzing around the world in terms of technology. Ironically, just as much as how women enjoy reading ‘Delisted.com’ or ‘PerezHilton.com’ about gossip on celebrities and how these sites amusingly degrade them.

Comparing Engadget to http://blogoscoped.com (another ‘tech-ee’ blog site), I found it’s advantages through the author’s style of writing. I find his writing style humorous as well as very interesting and easy to read. Good blogs should be stimulated to review. Blgoscoped.com I found was useful but not visually exciting and as popular as Engadget. I feel Blogoscoped gave more tutorial feel to how a product works oppose to where Engadget hypes up a product and unveils what it is worth. All in all, rating Engadget.com based on content, organization, and insightfulness, on a scale from 1 to 5, I give it a 4.5.