Critical Evaluation!!!

When it came to coming up for ideas on the topic of the blog we wanted to find a niche in the market and create something unique and interesting. The Grumpy Cunts blog is a space for us to complain until our heart is content about modern life which covers anything from the trivial matter of useless junk to serious matters such as public transport and insomnia.

Initially, posting daily was quite difficult, especially as we were all allocated a time slot (mine was 3-6pm) but after a few days it was easy to get into the routine. Due to the use of time slots I feel that the blog was well organised, as we also created a private Facebook group so that we could communicate out of lesson to make sure we did not write about the same subjects! In general, I feel the group worked together well, the editor kept in contact with us and communication links were good as nobody discussed the exact same topic in any posts and everyone knew what they were doing.

The controversial title of the blog worked well as it emphasised our topic as many of the posts could incite anger or annoyance for people who like the aforementioned hated things. The banner worked very well also because it showed all six of the grumpy cunts who made up the blog!

However, as to the manner of the posts it was pretty much informal, and we were able to add in our own style of writing as our editor did not state many rules thus giving us more freedom to write our own way and express ourselves in our own manner, rather than in a precise, set way! One thing which I found quite easy was thinking of subjects to write about as there are many things, in my opinion, wrong in this world or simply annoying, but I think this was the case for most of the bloggers as we all found subjects to write about quite easily!

The target readership of the blog would have been people who have a 'chip' on their shoulder, so to speak! I feel the best way we could have promoted our blog is through viral videos and possibly producing our own short episode of a summary of the week's favourite subjects!

Aspects of the blog which we kept the same or similar throughout each post is we made sure there was at least one picture or video in the post to add interest to the post and break up the text! But other than that the style of each post varied depending on the blogger.

Overall, I think my blog posts were good, although in some of them I could have added more detail or perhaps a youtube video to back up my opinions! But, in general, the subjects I chose were varied and unique from most of the other bloggers thus adding to the individuality of this blog. If we did this again I think I would spend more time working on my posts and possibly changing the structure or content!