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Review two blogs from this list of the 200 best blogs for economics students. Make sure they are from different categories, and don't repeat one that someone else has already done. Yes I realize that this means you will have to check the previous posts to see which ones have already been reviewed. The sooner you do this one the easier it will be. Reviews need to include:
1) Content
2) Appearance
3) Ease of Navigation
4) Apparent bias
http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/top-200-most-influential-economics-blogs/
Blog #1: Paul Krugman
ReplyDeletehttps://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
1) Content
I'd rate the content a 9.5/10. He does a very good job going in depth on the numbers (such as his "Trump's Rosy Scenario" post) and presenting them in a simple yet effective graph format. The only thing that isn't quite enough is that he seems to like copying and pasting a lot of other graphs; while that is nice and all, the best of the best economists find unique trends in data to present new findings.
2) Appearance
I'd give it a 10/10. The NYT does a good job with their appearances, but nevertheless the blog looks very nice. It's much more appealing to the eye than this one. ;-)
3) Ease of Navigation
I'd give the navigation a 9/10. It is very nice and easy to scroll through his posts in a chronological order, but it would be nice if there was a side bar to view posts by months.
4) Apparent Bias
He's a liberal. The book on the side "The Conscience of a Liberal" should be enough to attest to that. He's also very Keynesian in his approach, which tends to be a liberal thing.
Blog #2: Economist's View (Mark Thoma)
http://economistsview.typepad.com/
1) Content
The blog's content is simply stupendous. Thoma goes out of his way to present quality quotes from great sources (like the Economic Journal) and digs deep to find the numbers needed for interesting trends, such as the one I will be mentioning later on. Economics, when it comes down to it, is about the numbers, and he does a great job at that.
2) Appearance
I'd give the appearance a 9/10. The blog posts themselves look nice, but the sidebar looks very crude. It serves the blog well for navigation, but it would be nice if the sidebar had better fonts or something of the sort.
3) Ease of Navigation
The blog gets a perfect 10/10 on navigation because all of the posts are on the side bar to check ones that may have been missed.
4) Apparent Bias
Thoma seems to have a slight liberal bias, but by and large his posts are very informational and fact-based. He has stated that liberal Presidents leave office with growth whereas conservative ones leave office with recessions.
Period 2
ReplyDeleteBlog #3: Marginal Revolution
Content: The maker, Tyler Cowen, of this blog takes stories that he finds interesting and posts them on there with a link to the website in which he found this information. Then he asks for people's opinion on the topic in his blogs and see what people post. One of the links is Mondays assorted links which includes multiple links to different websites he wants to see what people think about.
Appearance: It looks good I guess. I think it looks like a regular website but it is organized.
Ease of Navigation: Navigation for this blog is super easy and it has links embedded in a lot if the facts so it is easy to find where those facts are coming from.
Apparent Bias: It is a bit different topics like they are very scattered but they are relevant in at least some part of the world.
Blog #4: Brad Delong
Content: The content of this blog is based almost entirely about things happening in the United states. It is very negative about the current stance of america. It focuses a lot about Trump and his first 100 days as president.
Appearance: It looks good as a website, it has pictures which are nice and it has dates and topics you would be able to notice from the news.
Ease Of Navigation: The problem with this website is that you have to scroll quite a bit to get to the actual blogs. and it also offers links to go view certain in formation pertaining to the argument.
Apparent Bias: The topics are more focused in america and something that might affect us as citizens and is a little more elaborate than the other blog page I visited.
Blog#5 :Greg Mankiw's
ReplyDeleteContent: I rate the content a 9/10 . He does a good job in explaining his points in an organized manner.
Appearance: 3/10. The appearance is very dull and plain not really eye catching.
Ease of navigation:10/10. The navigation is very easy with dates on them and in chronological order.
Apparent bias: he's an apparent republican as he expresses how he argues with trumps choices.
Blog#6: Econbrowser
Content: I rate the content a 5/10. He does well explaining to a certain extent his blogs are very short and mostly invoke long quotes from a different source without an explanation.
Appearance: 4/10. The blogs appearance is once again very dull and plain to the eye .
Ease of navigation: 9/10 . It's very easy to navigate the different blogs by date and time.
Apparent bias : there wasn't really any apparent bias.
Period 6
Arij Moiz
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Blog #7: Naked Capitalism "Understanding the Global Role of the US Economy"
Content: i would rate this 9.5/10. Yves Smith explained really well why he thinks US plays an important part in the Global economy, gave examples to support his claim, and used visual graphics to connect the economies of the world to the movement of capital.
Appearance: 8/10. the order of his blog was neat.
Ease of Navigation: 8.5/10. It was alright since the blog would be shown at the bottom when you click the links
Apparent bias: He is an American giving opinion about Capitalism.
Blog #8 Think Progress
Content: 6.5/10. The content expresses cultural diversity in Grammy's award ceremonies. the author states that "only 32 African Americans, 10 Latinos, and eight openly gay people won Academy Awards as of 2016" which is far less this year than previous years. She says that any minority accomplishment with “political correctness” is to say that no success and ever since Trump's presidency people have become openly racist.
Appearance: 9/10. it was neatly written with large font.
Ease of Navigation: 5/10. it was pretty confusing because i had to link on different links to choose a blog.
Apparent bias: Its probably written from a point of view of a fan and a non- supporter of Trump
Period 2
ReplyDeleteBlog #21
Content: Half a dozen professionals, including a tax law expert, a historian, PhDs in economics, business consultants and financial professionals provide perspectives on the financial world.Topics include world trade, industrial production, U.S. Government programs, and major regulatory issues.
Appearance: It looks quite plain really; white backgrounds and classic black text font indicate not much effort was put into aesthetic appeal.
Ease of Navigation: There are lots of headings and color coding to organize the articles, and they can even be sorted by author.
Apparent bias: The creator stated that he created the blog in 2003 to reflect his frustration with the state of the economy and country.
Blog #20: Economic Policy Institute
Content: EPI sees themselves as a think tank for the common worker, and most of their content revolves around how current events affect everyday pay.
Appearance: Splashes of color and images here keep it from being entirely dull.
Ease of Navigation: Lots of headings and subheadings make it simple to find what you're looking for.
Apparent bias: The language used here favors the working lower and middle class.
Period 4
ReplyDeleteBlog #13 (Calculated Risk)
1) The content of the calculated risk blog is pretty good. It gives a good overview of all the important things currently happening in the economy as well as concise opinions and reasoning behind them. It does tend to focus on the housing market a lot though. It's also updated very frequently so there's a lot of up to date information.
2) The appearance is very crisp, however it could be a little nicer considering how popular the blog is. The website posts the blogs in sequential order so it is somewhat annoying to have to scroll around but there are quick links for certain areas so it looks pretty good.
3) The site is pretty easy to navigate but my only complaint is that the articles are posted in order of publishing so if you're trying to find an older article it's pretty annoying and harder to do than it should be. The tabs at the top do make it easier for certain areas though.
4) Since there are 2 different authors it is kind of balanced however the guy posts a lot more so his opinion is portrayed more.
Blog #14 (Freakonomics)
1) The content on freakonomics is pretty good, it is a little biased though. The content is really spread out though and covers a wide range of topics.
2) The appearance is good too. They have snip its of all their articles and podcasts per each link so i think it's done pretty well. it's also really colorful which i think is entertaining.
3) Navigation is somewhat split because it's nice all their articles are available but it is kind of confusing having a lot of articles on one page. I like it a lot more than the other blog though because they only have a certain number of posts per page and to find older ones you need to go to a different page.
4) The blog tries to stay neutral but it definitely leans towards being liberal.
Humdaan Balagamwala
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Blog #9 (Money Illusion)
1) The content of the blog seems to be interesting. It brings up a unique occurrence in several countries and expands on why its happening. It seems to be focusing on why certain countries are poorer, or richer than others despite what they score on certain economic tests.
2) The appearance is okay, it seems very bland. There is nothing special in the design that makes it stick out.
3) The site navigation is pretty easy and basic. There is a list of months you can click and go through the various articles published within those months. However it may be difficult to find a certain article during a busy month, as you have to physically scroll through the articles.
4) There didn't seem to be any bias, except the author seemed to be above all of the countries he described.
Blog #27 (Economic Principles)
1) The content is mostly well documented and discussed ideas. This blog consist of various views and ideas on the production and distribution of economic ideas.
2) The appearance is pretty basic, with a white background. They have some color within the logo, but everything else is based on simplicity.
3) The navigation is very neatly organized. The have several sections to find anything you want. They have to sets of tabs, one across the top, and another down the side. By clicking the blogs tab, it gives you list of authors and their recent posts.
4) They have various authors, and is more of a collective blog. That is why I think their isn't much of a bias.
Ronak Patel
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Blog #165 (Miraj Patel)
1) The content of Mr. Patel's blog is actually miscellaneous. Everything posted on his blog, which is a Twitter page, really applies to everyone that follows him.
2) The appearance of this blog is very common for people that are young, politicians, or celebrities. If you use Twitter, one would know what Miraj's page would look like.
3) The navigation is very easy. All the articles, comments, or links posted are in chronological order. People who follow this man can also like and share the articles he posts with their friends, along with commenting. The articles simply need to be clicked on to read.
4) This specific blog page is run by one man. The articles he posts though are of a variety of people, therefore there is no opinions created, and anything that seems important is also posted.
Blog #122 (WTF Finance)0
1) The content one this blog page deals with anything involving business, stock markets, politics, commodities, real estate, and economic data. The articles on the main page are the most recent, or important articles to have come out.
2) The appearance of this blog is meant to attract the eyes of any of the people that may visit the site. The main articles on the home page are big pictures with small captions about the article itself. It is very organized, with specific topics on the home bar.
3) Navigation for the article is clear and stands out, allowing for easy transitions from one article to the next. There could be less ads to help the navigation.
4) This is another blog with various authors that are combined into one whole blog. This reduces certain opinions on the subject.
Joel Sibi
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Blog #52 (John Quiggin)
1) The content of this blog is very focused on conspiracy themed subjects and is consistent of a lot of speculations on popular trends going on. The blog claims to cover Australian as well as world events from a social democratic perspective.
2) The appearance of the blog is quite bland with not much visual stimuli or anything of the sort. However, everything is quite neatly organized and arranged making it easy for any blog viewer or reader.
3)The site navigation is quite simple but effective in how its set in a chronological order and there is also many several tabs on the right hand side which include different selections of topics.
4) This specific blog is run by the man who it is named after John Quiggin. He makes every post that he does in a fashion similar to a letter or a talk with his audience. He focuses heavily on the controversial or up in the air topics. Since its his opinion and viewpoints it is as a result biased.
Blog #50 (Environmental Economics)
1) The content on this blog focuses primarily on economic's play on the environment currently and the positive or negative effects it may be having or being had on the economy due to the environment.
2)The appearance of this blog is extremely full, in that there is no space on the blog which is not sprawled with text. This in turn makes it difficult to understand and properly analyze the blog.
3) As stated above the somewhat messy style of the blog and the fact that it seems to be disorganized makes navigation something a bit problematic and difficult as well.
4) This blog contains posts about the subject at hand which is the economy and the environment's effects on each other and how they go hand in hand. However, the guy who runs the blog also seems to toss in many personal stories or joke type posts. There is bias because the author is the one who puts his view forth to the audience.
Sarah Rassam
ReplyDelete6th Period
Blog #194 (Falkenblog)
http://falkenblog.blogspot.co.uk/
1) Content: The content on this blog primarily focuses on the Low Volatility Effect and how much risk one can tolerate relating to the amount of expected returns. Also, the content includes the most prominent methods to explain the high returns.
2) Appearance: The appearance of this blog appears to be very plain and simple with a black background. There are very few pictures here and there, but it is prominently basic.
3) Ease of Navigation: The site navigation is very simple, with posts separated by years on the right side of the blog as well as a few links to related articles.
4) Apparent bias: There seems to be no bias within this blog. It is just filled with facts.
Blog #200 (Ecological Headstand)
http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.co.uk/
1) Content: The content of this blog consists of mainly different, short blog posts which contain a few pictures.
2) Appearance: The appearance of this blog seems to be dull-looking and filled with grey colors.
3) Ease of Navigation: The site navigation is very simple, with posts separated by years on the right side of the blog as well as a few links to related articles and links to other blogs.
4) Apparent bias: This blog does not seem to contain any apparent bias due to it not being political; it is solely based on economics and economists.
Period 6
ReplyDeleteBlog #12 (Worthwhile Canadian Initiative)
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/
1)Content: This blog has different articles about the migration, demographics, and economy of Canada. It has charts and graphs that show where people are moving and how that is affecting the economy of each province.
2)Appearance: The appearance of this blog is very plain with a few color only in the heading area. It is very basic and not very appealing. Only other thing of color is the charts and graphs.
3)Ease of navigation: It is easy to navigate through the blog. Everything is clear but there are advertisements on the side that can mess with the navigation process.
4)Apparent Bias: The blog does not seem to have any bias because the authors have been writing about Canada for a while, and the word choice shows that they seem neutral.
Blog#86 (U.S. Food Policy)
http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/
1)Content: The blog has various articles on food and nutrition. From an economic standpoint such as trading and costs, to a social view such as poverty and starving people.
2)Appearance: The appearance of this blog is good. There is a lot of colors, the layout is good, and there are many pictures, charts, and graphs.
3)Ease of Navigation: To navigate on this website, it is very easy. All you have to do is scroll down and if you want a blog with a different topic, you can click "next blog." In addition the articles are split up well so it is easy to see.
4)Apparent Bias: The author is a teacher and writer at Tufts University. He probably has not had much first hand experience with these topics and probably did research on it. So his points are based off of other people so it might cause a bias based on who he gets the information from.
Kylee Brouwer
ReplyDelete2nd period
Blog #28 (The Irish Economy)
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/
1) This blog provides its readers with categorized economic information for all things involving Ireland and/or how Europe's economies will affect Ireland. It is run by the Irish Economic Association.
2) This blog has a decent appearance. The all black and white with blue hyperlink color scheme appears to give this blog a sense of neatness, but could definitely use some background boxes to help separate different parts of the site.
3) This blog is easily navigated as it conveniently has a catergorized hyperlink bar on the right side.
4) This blog may have the occasional bias in a post here and there simply beacause so many people can post, and there is even the option of anonymity. Overall, this blog has little bias as it provides facts about the economy and how Ireland is being affected.
Blog #123 (Businomics)
http://businomics.typepad.com/
1) This blog offers connections between the economy and business decisions from one man who has received a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University.
2) This blog would receive a rating of one out of ten in appearance. The website looks cheap and like no one has changed its layout or color scheme or fonts since 2005.
3) This blog does not do the best job in providing its readers with easy navigation. This is due to the poor layout and appearance of the site. It is very cluttered.
4) Since only one person posts on this blog, there is an apparent bias. The doctor likes to provide articles and comment on it with his opinions.
Janelle Rodriguez
ReplyDelete2nd Period
Blog #39 (Uneasy Money)
https://uneasymoney.com/
1) The content on the blog is very interesting and has good view points and different outside resources that can be related back to the topic o uneasy money.
2) The appearance of the site is really cool and simple, it is just a picture of R.G. Hawtrey. whom the the blog is in memory of and it looks like a cool background.
3)the site is very easy to access and there are two tabs one for the blog and one to tell the reader about the history of the blog and how it began.
4) There is an apparent bias, since one person is writing the blog and analyzing monetary theory and macroeconomics, but it is not only their opinion, the writer includes other articles and different prospectives.
Blog #38 (Mainly Micro)
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/
1) The content of the page includes graphs and analysis of different ideas and the economy not just in American, but all around the world
2) The appearance is quite basic with a blue background, but there are graphs that help it make it look prettier, and easier to read, rather than just straight context.
3) The site is very easy to navigate and it has consistent blogs that are put up by different people and analysis of those sections.
4) There does not seem to be an apparent bias prospective, because the posts are by the same blog but about different parts of the world.
6th Period
ReplyDeleteBlog #16 Why Nations Fail
1) Content- The content is extremely radical economic ideas on taxes, and rebuttals/agreements to the theories of many philosophers.
2) Appearance- The blog layout is clean, with a nice sized black font on white background
3) Ease of Navigation- The blog has no way to find content other than scrolling though the page
4) Apparent Bias- The writers of this blog are very biased against western, organized, capitalist states.
Blog #21 Angry Bear
1) Content- The blog addresses other economics articles by other blogs and news sites.
2) Appearance- The blog is very polished, and looks a lot like the webpages of large publications like the NYT and Huffingon Post.
3) Ease of Navigation- The website has a search feature, as well as tabs that correspond to topics in each post.
4) Apparent Bias- Most of the posts are written by a user named "New Deal Democrat."
Period 2
ReplyDelete10 & 18
Content: Republicans should fear not repealing ObamaCare's pre-existing-conditions rules
Appearance: Blog written by David Henderson who seems to be educated thoroughly about the subject
Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to follow and related or other topics are on the sidebar for people who like this topic.
Apparent bias: based on personal experience and evidence the opinions of the author show a resentment towards Obamacare
Content:
Appearance: The content is the first thing you see. There are no sidebars. Looks like a freelance writer's low budget website.
Ease of Navigation: I wasn't sure if the blog I was supposed to read was on there bc they have no titles on the individual blog postings or writing excerpts.
Apparent bias: The author who lives in the ghetto is against the courts
Neelam Patel
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #32
Content:It's a blog about a publisher who writes about an Inspired by the legacy of Franklin and Eleanor, the Roosevelt Institute re-imagines America as it should be: a place where hard work is rewarded, everyone participates, and everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.
Appearance:The blog is written by Mike Konczal, who is a fellow worker with the Roosevelt Institute, where he works on financial reform, inequality, and a progressive vision of the economy.
Ease of Navigation:The blog is not easy to read and has somewhat of a choppy format.
Apparent Bias: Based on personal experience.
Blog #104
Content:This blog is about the water policies and regulations.
Appearance:The blog is written by David Zetland, who has worked on water policy for 10+ years. He's an assistant professor of economics at Leiden University College in the Netherlands, but these opinions belong to David alone.
Ease of Navigation:The blog is easy to read and has a good somewhat professional look.
Apparent Bias:Based on personal experience.
Period 2
ReplyDeleteBlog #73: Growthology
Content: This website is for entrepreneurship research. As the premier resource for exploring entrepreneurship research, Growthology makes complex findings accessible to entrepreneurs, policymakers, media outlets, and fellow researchers.
Appearance: This website has many links to other references and pages. It has very calm and duller colors. Blue is their main color with orange and yellow highlights.
Ease of Navigation: The navigation is very simple. It has four tabs on top (home, about, meet the authors, and meet the guest authors)
Apparent Bias: The creator or creators choose who gets to write on the site.
Blog #75: Think Markets
Content: A blog of the NYU colloquium on market institutions and economic process.
Appearance: Once again the main color of this blog is blue. The highlight color is a lighter blue. And it has links to blog post that the authors have shared.
Ease Of Navigation: The navigation is very simple. It only has three tabs (home, who are we, colloquium and papers)
Apparent Bias: This blog is written by (current and former) members of the Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes at the Department of Economics, New York University. Though they say that they sometimes will differ in opinions it seems to be very rare if at all.
May Liew
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #19: Cafe Hayek
1) Content- The blog is filled with references where he would then insert a comment about the content he referred to. I find this useful because it highlights the different perspectives that other economists would be subjected to, while also emphasizing his stance and the reason for his arguments. This enables for a greater understanding of the nuances that surround certain economic subjects.
2) Appearance- The appearance of the blog is creative as it has various illustrations of caricatures. However, the appearance doesn't really draw much attention because it lacks color.
3) Ease of Navigation- The navigation of the blog is made easier by the use of the search bar if you need to find posts from a specific day or to refer to old posts that you want to have another look over. The overall set-up is easy to navigate and has the basic set-up that you would imagine a blog to have, so nothing really threw me off.
4) Apparent bias- I think the content is very much biased and based on opinion, so it wouldn't help in terms of research to use the blog. However, if you are trying to get another's perspective on a matter, then you would see that the blog is quite enlightening.
Blog #23: The Incidental Economist
1) Content- The content of this blog consists of lengthy anf thorough analysis of economic topics that are great explanations into a more indepth perception of the writer. This content is great to use to achieve a greater understanding of recent and old topics that readers might have been curious about.
2) Appearance- The appearance is lack luster and contains very little that appeals to the eye. There is little to no effort put on the emphasis of physical impressions that the blog gives off.
3) Ease of Navigation- The ease of navigation is much like the other blog that I looked it. It has a basic set-up of a blog, with the posts being put into chronological order. There is a "recent posts" bar on the side that contributes to an easier ease of access to the latest content.
4) Apparent bias- The author seems to be very careful about expressing an apparent bias in his work and remains a third party when referring to the political subjects that come about. He emphasizes "republicans" and "democrats" as if the author is careful about separating himself from either parties.
Carina Hung, Period 6
ReplyDeleteBlog #11: The Big Picture
1) Content: The blog touches on current topics, summarizing them in short posts, and goes into depth about certain topics, supporting the posts with detailed explanations. Written in a simple writing style, both types of posts provide a variety of great content for readers to choose from depending on the time that they have to indulge in the information.
2) Appearance: The blog is attractive and, for the most part, simple. Despite the fact that there are several advertisements in the side column of the website that makes the column appear slightly disorganized, there is a gorgeous illustration in the larger header that matches the website's color theme. Green is present in the color theme, a symbol of money.
3) Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate with categories and archives in the side column to help you find your way through older posts. There are also tabs along the top, right under the header.
4) Apparent bias: The blog is more liberal. In a post titled "Trump Rules," the blogger expresses his opinion that contradicts the punny title. As he states that Trump could not rule effectively, he also mentions the fact that he should not be president because he is intolerant towards certain types of people.
Blog #24: Baseline Scenario
1) Content: The writing style and simple and, therefore, easy and quick to read and consume information. The posts are detailed with quotes, statistics, and examples.
2) Appearance: The blog, primarily in black and white, is simple and inviting.
3) Ease of Navigation: For quick navigation, there are tabs along the top, a list of recent posts in the side column, an archive, and links. The later three are farther down, so some scrolling is required to find them.
4) Apparent bias: The bloggers lean towards liberal views. On the side columns of their blogs, their tweets and retweets criticize Republicans and speak out against President Trump.
Erica Wong
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #43: A Dash of Insight
1) Content- While somewhat lengthy, none of the information is dogged out- it is all extremely relevant and useful. There is a cohesive order to his posts, and they do have a conclusion to each.
2) Appearance- although simple with a white and grey theme, it is an economics blog, not a fashion blog. So it's fine, and helps the colorful graphs to stand out.
3) Ease of Navigation- without a table of contents, you just have to scroll down and down to find the post you want. Although it is in order of the most recent to least, it can take a while. Adding a table of contents would be nice.
4) Apparent bias- doesn't seem to be any, and he makes recommendations backed up with data or personal experience.
Blog #44 China Financial Markets
1) Content- based on the Chinese market, so it has Chinese financial and economic news. There is a small summary of each article before you click on it, which is very helpful.
2) Appearance- Rocking a midnight blue, white, and grey theme, it is easy on the eyes. Perfect for an economic blog.
3) Ease of Navigation- although there is no table of contents, it is arranged into two columns in chronological order with a short summary and the title of each blog- clicking on it takes you to the full post. Very nicely organized, although again, a table of content would be extremely helpful.
4)Apparent bias- The blogger seems to want the Chinese market to do well, but that's understandable, as he probably trades on the Chinese market and wants to make money himself.
Neethu Thampy
ReplyDeletePeriod : 6
Blog #105: Questions and Observations
1) Content: The content is mostly current events about politics, governments and people's rights. His question is followed by a quote from the article he got it from. Then he writes about his view on the issue which gives enough information on the topic.
2) Appearance: the blog is simple and plain. It is organized nicely with few tabs. The background is white with the top part black. It doesn't have any graphics but looks good overall.
3) Ease of Navigation: It has tabs to help you navigate to policies and podcasts. It doesn't have links to older posts but links articles relating to the particular question.
4) Apparant bias: the author seems to be in favor of democratic ideas and for protecting individual rights.
Blog#135: Karen Grepin's Global Health Blog
1) Content: the content is mostly about global health related topics. It covers new drugs, policies and diseases that affect the world.
2) Appearance: the blog is plain, it doesn't have any pictures but is organized. The background is white with the tabs blue. She highlights the quote from the article and the rest are in white.
3) Ease of Navigation: I was able to navigate easily, it has links to previous and popular posts. It also links article in each post and tabs make it easier to navigate.
4) Apparant bias: It doesn't seem to have a bias, every post is supported by facts and since it's about global health the focus is on the world not just one country.
Joel George
ReplyDeletePeriod: 2nd
Blog #99
1) This blog is by a famous social analyst know named Ken Arrow, it mainly covers the thoughts of the human psyche in relation to what's currently going on in the economic world. It talks about how society feels at the moment and what sort of turns could come about through this process.
2) It's very plain and straight to the point, not in writing but in appearance. White and Blue hues paint the page, sort of like a washed off cloudy day. It's boring and not appealing to the eye, but it does get the job done.
3) Ease of Navigation: Very Easy to navigate in terms of recent events, all you have to do is scroll down. But in terms of specific events and or economic results there's not much success, this is mainly because the search bar is not that accurate.
4) The funny part about this is, the author Brandon writes about any political problems. In fact the reason why his website is so popular is because he has no bias toward any political parties, this all change when Trump became president though. Now there is clearly a more liberal view.
Blog #100
1) The funniest thing that I find about this blog is that the author stop posting as soon as Trump became president. There was consistent daily updates until end of January, now he's becoming more partial to his work. From what I've read so far he seems to be talking about mainly political aspects of the economy, albeit this could've been filled by the recent political infighting. From his previous works I see that this blog is about how money works with pure logic.
2) A very plain look, not that interesting, the usual blues and whites. I think that at this point most bloggers don't really care how their page looks aesthetically, as long as the Americans Blue and white are somewhere on the page :)
3) Like most websites it's very easy to navigate by dates, but difficult to navigate by specific topics. I enjoyed the shortened titles and summaries though.
4) Again like most logical thinkers this blog is biased towards a more liberal mind. He clearly does not support Trump nor does he care about any of trump's antics.
Hannah Abie
ReplyDeletePeriod 2:
Blog #68: Economist do it with Models
1- The multiple articles had very interesting content about various things. For example, the first article dealt with a economic conference and gave some nice introspect on what candidates and employers have to go through during these conferences.
2- Some of the articles were nice and well written. Others not so much.
3-It was not the easiest to read and every article talked about something completely different.
4- There were a lot of biases about different topics. however most of the economists in the various articles had a very patriotic view. many wanted to deal with domestic issues before we focus on international.
Blog #2: Aid Thoughts
1- I really enjoyed the articles on this page. Some where humorous, others were quite serious and focused on some-what depressing issues. But overall it gave a lot of insight on what goes through an economists mind.
2-I really enjoyed the layout of this page. the various meme that people posted had me laughing. Overall it was a very well thought arrangements. However, I did not enjoy the click-bait articles.
3- the articles were very easy to navigate. The titles were a little long and felt like i was already reading the article. It was a lot to navigate then the previous blogs.
4-The economists in these articles were extremely open-minded and curious; one even asked to us to do a survey for him. They wanted to explore the worlds different views on economic policies.
Christopher Yee
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
Blog #172 Duncan's Economic Blog
1. The blog is old and the author has not posted since 2014. It was mainly active around 2011 especially in September. The homepage contains economic news daily.
2. The words are in a black font with a plain white background. It looks boring with no exciting colors or logos. It's like reading a book that is crammed into the center and goes on with other little links on the side.
3. The tabs are in a small font on the right side of the page and there is tons of scrolling. It's not the ideal navigation for a blog.
4. The author of the blog mostly talks about European economy news.
Blog #170 Macro Man
1. The blog contains posts from many users that talk about economic news of the UK. Along with the posts, there are pictures and comments.
2. It shows a picture and title of the blog with the users name on the home page. Along the top of the page, there is an organized tab with links to different pages such as "about/FAQ" and "contact".
3. The tabs and links are easy to use and have a different color background and a search button for easy navigation.
4. The bloggers have a bias towards new that contain a graph of information that talks about a person or company.
Drew Garza
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #138
1. This blog contains research, teaching, and personal information regarding macroeconomics, labor, growth, finance, immigration, and inequality.
2. The page has a soft look to it with some kind of tree in the top left corner and links to different pages of information below and pictures of himself and his wife (I'm assuming?) on the right.
3. It is honestly pretty easy to get around his page because he has it set up in such an organized way.
4.The blogger seems to be biased towards information regarding western hemisphere information, specifically financing.
Blog #8
1. This blog contains a lot of information about Trump and part of his life and his duties as the president.
2. The blog contains a lot of pictures of Trump and his family and pictures of him in office as well as a bunch of links to what he has said and done as president and before he become president.
3. The page kind of lacks organization so you don't really know where to click, and it's a lot of random political stuff about literally just Trump.
The blogger seems to be biased about Trump and how he will actually be a good president opposed to what the common opinion of him is.
Period 4
ReplyDeleteBlog #48 Firedoglake
Content: Tis blog contains information over many crime stories around the united states and information over the nations situation with Trump.
Appearance: This blog contains a very modern simple type of appearance, that seems to be directed to younger adults.
Ease of Navigation: i am able to navigate with ease. Articles are on the front page and all you have to do is click it.
Apparent Bias: This blog seems to have a more liberal bias. They seem to oppose trump and identify themselves with many liberal values.
Blog #53 IMF direct
Content: This blog explains the situation of China’s record of economic growth
and globalization in trade.
Appearance: The blog seems to be very unprofessional and low budget. I seems to be targeted at older adults and doesn't contain any pictures resembling the topics talked about.
Ease of Navigation: although simple and robust, the blog is relatively easy to navigate. Many links are shown and easy to make contact with
Apparent Bias: The seem to be on board with China and hhow the run their economy and have trouble with other global issues.
Blog #69- Coyote Blog
ReplyDeleteContent: This blog contains voiced opinion of the editor of the blog mainly, there are facts involved but only facts that support the editors claim, nothing for others to disagree with.
Appearance: This blog seems more advanced than most found on the internet, very up-to-date with its entries and a organized section of categories to choose from.
Ease of Navigation: It is pretty simple to get where you want to go on the page, there are many links to outside sources as well.
Apparent Bias: This blog is obviously Conservative and dislikes Left Wing decisions greatly.
Blog #132- Neighborhood Effects
Content: This blog exemplifies the claim that economics are the sole reason that the world is still turning on its axis. Without economics, nothing would get done in the world and everyone would still be banging on walls in caves and calling it art.
Appearance: This blog contains graphs and other outside sourced pictures to prove its points about the economy; it seems very simple-minded in its design.
Ease of Navigation: Going from place to place in this blog is pretty easy, nothing difficult to do, just click a certain button to go to a certain place in the blog, pretty simple.
Apparent Bias: This blog is obviously in favor of capital goods over consumer goods, because it believes that that will improve the economy of a company in the long-run, when it's important.
Taylor Mott
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
Blog #102- MoneyScience
1. Content: This blog's content seems like it would be very helpful in real world situations. It provides all kinds of advice on how to handle your money. As well as very informative articles about the economy.
2. Appearance: The site itself is not the most aesthetically pleasing. However, it is very functional and has a well thought out layout and organization.
3. Navigation: The site is very easy to navigate and has very clear sections with very informative titles.
4. Bias: This blog has no apparent bias. It provides articles for every side of every argument and it doesn't appear to favor any one thing over the other.
Blog #121- The Unbroken Window
1. Content:This blog contains articles highlighting the flaws in our economy.
2. Appearance: The appearance of this blog is very nice. It has a picture of the mountains and the site in general is not to busy, very plain and to the point.
3. Navigation: This blog is very easy to navigate. It has five main tabs at the top for the main sections of the blog.
4. Bias:This blog seems to favor third parties more than those who are actually making the transaction. It really seems to dislike externalities.
Bryan Pulliam
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Blog #22- modeled Behavior
1.Content- This blog gives stats about its topic. These stats help support the main idea behind it all, in order to convince the reader.
2. Appearance- The site of the blog is basic. Nothing really stands out besides the name of it really.
3. Navigation- The site is really easy and simple to go through and process while reading.
4. bias- The site provides other article as well but that are not related to the main article itself, But it is bias on proving its topic.
Blog #16 Why Nations Fall
1. Content- The blog talks about the different views of a 50 percent tax on stuff. It gives good examples such as the tea part of the United States.
2. Appearance- The site is okay but is still not a stand out site that makes the reader want to read it in the first place.
3. Navigation- It is straight-forward and simple to easy for everyone.
4. Bias- There is no bias opinion because it talks about all the views of the 50 percent tax that happened, so it does not stick one group out by themselves.
Zoe Leibowitz
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #188: John Myles White
1. I would rate the content of this blog a sold 9/10. The information provided is insightful and quite helpful. Any information is provided with great visuals and in-depth explanations that make it easy to understand.
2. The appearance of this blog is quite standard and simple, yet I feel like it fits the content of the blog well. I would rate it a 7/10.
3. The navigation of the blog is definitely one of the blog's flaws. All of the blogs are listed from newest to oldest, and it is hard to search for a blog of a particular type without having to scroll through all of the blogs. 4/10.
4. Overall, I would not say this blog is really biased at all. They instead work to inform the public, and by simply providing informational content, they aren't really being biased in any sort of way.
Blog #199: Econoblog
1. The content of this blog is definitely more "all encompassing" than the previous one. There are not only informational posts explaining certain economics concepts, but there are also posts that relate more to the real world and current events. 9/10.
2. I am not a huge fan of the appearance. Although the previous blog tended to be plain and more simple, I actually prefer that to this layout because it's just not really all that appealing to the eye. 4/10.
3. Navigation, on the other hand, is much easier on this site. The blog is broken up into tabs so that the readers can easily find what they are trying to read or learn more about. 8/10.
4. As for bias, I think this author is definitely for MORE government spending.
Tolu Ojo
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
Blog #56- Adam Smith Institute
1) Content: The blog has blogs that talk about expanding free market economies in order to free the world from poverty. Furthermore, the blog has articles related to drug reform and eventually removing them from the accessibility of criminals.
2) Appearance: This blog's appearance is very pleasing and even beautiful to look at. As soon as you get to the website the entirety of your computer is filled with beautiful, high quality images related to the themes of the website.
3) Navigation: The site's navigation is very easy to understand. There are tabs at the top of the screen depending on the topic you're looking for and then subtopics within those topics.
4) Bias: This blog does not seem to have any bias of any kind. It is mainly focused on helping the future world have a more structured, free-market economy with less poverty and drugs roaming around.
Blog #104- Aguanomics
1) Content: This blog contains articles about oil, free trading, the space race, and weight loss, but it's not clear what the entire website is supposed to be about. Besides the fact that the blog has something to do with water based on the title, I have no idea what the main purpose of the blog is.
2) Appearance: The appearance of this blog makes me want to click exit and never go back .Nothing about it is appealing in any way, the articles go down in a lengthy list down the page and there is no theme to the blog.
3) Navigation: The navigation is very hard to understand. There is no clear way of getting around the website. You kind of have to keep scrolling around the website and hope for the best.
4) Bias: The bias of the website is unsure because there is no apparent theme or centrality to the blog. It just contains several different random article topics that don't correlate with each other.
Period 3
ReplyDeleteBlog #116: Chicago Boyz
1.This blogs covers world event and news and introduces peculiar aspects to discuss about. Among economic world politics is also discussed and many other topics
2.This blog appears very unprofessional but is easy to follow and there is not to many ads. The blogs and simply organized and there are not many pages to navigate.
3.It is extremely easy to navigate the site due to it simplicity of having really only one main page.
4.The blog seems to be very opinionated but does not seem biased to one side or another but neither neutral
Blog #17: Zero Hedge
1.The blog had articles that discussed financial, economics and typical politics and political issue. The bog has some anti-government blogs that combat certain dislikes.
2.There are a lot of ads and it makes the blog hard to follow as whole. The different pages also get confusing due to excessive ads.
3.The site is terribly confusing to navigate due to the excessive ads and numerous pages and links the dont supply much useful information.
4. The blog is biased towards governement and takes it in its responsibility to call out any event that they do not agree with or does not align with their ideals
Jane Hua
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
Blog #37 - John Kay
Content - This blog is written by leading British economist, John Kay. Its articles feature the changing of markets and industries within Microeconomics.
Appearance - This blog appears standard and simple, highlighting the titles and pictures of recent articles.
Ease of Navigation - This blog is functional and easy to navigate as it separates different events and recent news.
Apparent Bias - This blog is somewhat biased since John Kay is the sole author of each post. Rather than forecasting economic growth, Kay concerns his work with pluralism and the interaction between businesses and the economy.
Blog #155 - The Angry Economist
Content - This blog is written by Russ Nelson and its posts detail his opinions on current economic trends or recent events.
Appearance - This blog appears simplistic, but is not considerably appealing. There is no essential theme and the blogposts are dysfunctional.
Ease of Navigation - This blog is hard to navigate through. It is difficult to find which link to press and everything is pushed to one side of the page.
Apparent Bias - This blog is most definitely biased. The author uses The Angry Economist as an outlet for his opinions and rants.
Alexus Guevarra
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #154
1) Content- This article shows the relationship between China and Economics. How it impacts the economy, foreign competition, and its affect of SMOG.
2) Appearance- The blog is presented in a well professional occasion as it provides information of its topic of china without being bias or to comical
3) Ease of Navigation- It is very easy to follow along the ideas the author tried to portray in his blog. He well designs it to be up to date with the economy system today
4) Apparent bias- Although at first glance, maybe one would believe the blog to be bias, however, once reading the content the viewer can see the both positive and negative attributes of both sides of the economy and China's effect on it.
Blog #155
1) Content- Russ Nelson is an author who shoves the negatives of the economy and how the government manipulates its citizens out of money and other factors
2) Appearance- This appears to be a blog owned by one person who not only hysterically shows his position of the economy but uses good points to prove his ideas.
3) Ease of Navigation- Although the author posts in random periods of time and gaps, it can easily be navigated through the dates posted with a handy sidebar that can show and send you to your destination
4) Apparent bias- Yes, the blog is biased against the control of the government and the economy as it is named "The Angry Economist".
Truth Thomas
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Blog 41- International development, economics, politics, and policy
Content: The blog entries describe IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) weekly, and also describes the author's opinions on policy dealing with poverty and how to possibly make the situation better.
Appearance: The blog looks very clean and organized, as well as having a monochromatic feel due to the different shades of blue being the only colors that stand out.
Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate, the links to different pages are obvious and simple.
Bias: The blog seems to be against any form of socialism that comes with some poverty action propositions.
Blog 42- An American Perspective from China
Content:The blog entries describe China and the economic relationship between China and the United States.
Appearance: The blog looks pretty basic, the only thing that stands out is the picture at the top of an artistic view of old China possibly.
Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate, the links to different pages are obvious and simple.
Bias: The author seems to be bias about progressiveness in China's economy.
Edwin Cabrera
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
A Fistful of Euros #30
1) Content: This blog is about different topics that relate to European countries, like their politics and economics.
2) Appearance: The background has color and there's a big picture at the top that makes the blog not so boring to look at.
3) Ease of Navigation: The navigation is very simple with the headings at the top of the page and the links on the right side of the page.
4) Apparent Bias: There does not seem to be any apparent bias since the blogger does a good job of either not taking sides or explaining several sides of an argument.
Blog: Rortybomb #32
1)Content: This blog provides information on financial reform, unemployment and a progressive vision of the economy.
2)Apperance: Pretty simple, but effective at presenting information
3)Ease of Navigation: Very easy to navigate.
4)Bias: Openly states that the blogger has a progressive bias and also writes about inequality.
Meyer Wilson
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #66: Tim Worstall
1) Content - The content of this blog is very relatable and easy to read. It has a range of different topics. From religious issues to what's going on in The White House to simply interesting news.
9/10
2) Appearance - the appearence is very basic, simplistic and not attractive at all.
3/10
3) Ease of Navigation - the navigation is very simple with tabs to each side and pages with the entries.
7/10
4) Apparent bias - There is some bias in the authors tone, the blogger states the issue or news story with the diction that represents how the blogger feels about the story
5/10
Blog #57: Liberty Street Economics
1) Content - the content of this blog is more official but is still has a lot of different types of news. also it goes into foreign economics as well
8/10
2) Appearance - this sites is very nice and appealing to the eye. There is a image with every post makes it even more interesting. the way in which it looks makes me actually want to engage in the blog.
10/10
3) Ease of Navigation - the navigation is super simple and with the tabs at the top, all the information is easy to get to and make the page look even better.
9/10
4) Apparent bias - No this blogger states the issue or story followed by a synopsis on the headline with no change in tone or diction that would relate to a any bias.
9/10
Kody Ngo
ReplyDeletePeriod 6
Blog: #25 Overcoming Bias
1) Content-This blog is more of a general group blog with the theme of how to move society's beliefs closer to reality, in the face of natural biases such as overconfidence and wishful thinking, and the bias to believe we as a society has corrected for such biases, when we have done no such thing. This no bs content could draw the interest of many people from all walks of life.
2) Appearance- In my opinion the blog is very plain and dull considering it has a white background. Yet the font is big enough for ease of the reader and seemingly very organized.
3) Ease of Navigation- The organization of the website is amazing. It was very easy to go to recently posted blogs and comments as they were listed on the side with direct links. With a whole archive of previous post from the most popular listed at the top and then blogs by the month which made navigating around the blog a breeze.
4) Apparent Bias- There is no apparent bias to this blog and that may be because of the title of the blog's name "Overcoming Bias", but while the authors do show support for certain groups and organizations, they are very non biased about certain ideas discussed on the page.
Blog: #47 The Undercover Economist
1) Content- In The Undercover Economist Tim Harford deals with these as well as other economic issues that we encounter on a daily basis, often without being aware of it like, Why is coffee so expensive on train stations? Which type of illegal activity gives the best profit? What are the benefits and the downsides of free markets? which creates a very interesting and attractive blog page for the ordinary person.
2) Appearance- The appearance is pretty boring and dull with only the logo and "Tim Harford" written in huge bold letters across the top accompanied by links to social media.
3) Ease of Navigation- Navigating the page was confusing and I wasn't always sure where I was going. It was horrible but it could use some work.
4) Apparent Bias- Harford favors a more or less free market. Whether this should be seen as a bias or if this is because free markets are intrinsically good is a question I cannot answer. In any case the page is definitely pro free market which may be a deal breaker for some potential readers.
Blog #35 Dani Rodrik’s weblog
ReplyDelete1) Content-In Dani Rodrik,s blog Rodrick discusses on whether trade and redistribution of items is beneficial in the global economy.
2) Appearance-It is pretty interesting because there are many graphs that support the posts that are made. But other than that it is pretty simple.
3)Ease of Navigation- It is very simple and easy to get around.
4)Apparent Bias-Rodrick cleary supports global trade because he feel that it ultimately helps all countries.
Blog 45: Organizations and Markets
1)Content-This blog discusses the various markets and organizations that have an impact and play a crucial role in the economy. They discuss the positives and negatives of a variety of organizations and propose opinions on how these organizations can be better
2)Appearance-It is very simple but it has many options to share on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
3)Ease of Navigation- IT is very easy to use because of the simple layout but it also has a variety of different options to share.
4)Apparent Bias- There isn't an apparent bias on this blog it is fairly equal between each side.
Stanley Johnson
Delete6th Period
Robey Lukose
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #180: Developmental Therapy
1.) Content- The content of this blog is about The development therapy which aims to expose the state of the art in academic research related to Development Economics, but also share field work experiences and also tells us about the stories of many places.
2.) Appearance- The appearance is much like that of a blog page with many entries and easy to read articles with attached pictures or videos.
3.)Ease of Navigation- The navigation is very simple with each entry being one after the other and clearly separated.
4.)Apparent Bias- The only bias is the good of Gambia and exposing how terrible the situations Gambia through the anecdotes, facts, and media(photos and videos).
Blog #130:
1.) Content- The content in this blog is about the Forest policies, and forest rules/ practices, and problems related to forestry.
2.) Appearance- The website has a very simple layout with entries but they also useful tabs showing recent entries on the left and useful links throughout the entries.
3.)Ease of Navigation- The navigation through the website is very simple and easy.
4.)Apparent Bias- This blogger worked in forestry during or before his blogs thus, has background and a lot of knowledge on the topic of forestry. The blogger is for making forestry better and changing things on how the industry is ran to solve many problems because it is run on a old system.
Heather Bennett: 6th Period
ReplyDeleteBlog 160 (Capre Diem)
Content: This blog discusses the milestone pattern of consumer spending at restaurants and bars is greater than at grocery stores. It gives the amount spent at restaurants and bar versus at grocery stores for April 2015.
Appearance: The blog is very simple. There is a graph to serve as a visual aid for the blog's content.
Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate with hyperlink that help with sharing.
Apparent Bias: There is no bias in this blog because it states facts and provides a source for these facts.
Blog 33
Content:This blog mostly takes about the dumb this Trump says about the economy and the country in general and debunks them with facts.
Appearance:It is mostly simple. All of the author's publications are in a vertical set up rather than hyperlinked on the side which would be more organized in my opinion.
Ease of Navigation: All you have to do is scroll so it's pretty easy to navigate.
Apparent Bias: The author is very much so against Trump. But it is unclear if he is liberal or conservative. But he hates Trump.
Blog #170- Macro Man
ReplyDelete1) Content- The content was very informative in the blog by James on VIX. It was very understandable while being extremly relatable.
2) Appearance- The blog is extremly easy to read and well organized. It has many graphs that help to comprehend the information.
3) Ease of Navigation- the blog is extremly well organized and the information is very easy to go from one place to another.
4) Apparent bias- the blogger is supportive of VIX so he tends to give a one sided argument, however he still provides insightful thoughts on both sides.
Blog #171- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
1) Content- The blog gives a brief summary on the update on district seven. It is a bit too brief, but it is very informative.
2) Appearance- It is exremely well organized and easy to read.
3) Ease of Navigation- it is extremly well organized by topic so it is extremly easy to navigte from one topic to another.
4) Apparent bias- The blog has a bias supporting the seventh district but it is still very balanced on both sides of the argument.
blog #196
ReplyDeletecontent- the majority of this blog consisted of a concept called reign of error i n which someone is afraid of something that isn't happening so they take action to stop it from happening and inadvertently cause it to happen.
appearance- it was visually ok id give it a 6/10
ease of navigation- i got around pretty easy all the links worked well
apparent bias- it apparently has abias that the system is deadset on arresting people
blog #154
content- nostly various entries pertaining to china and its affects on worlds markets
apearnace- its not very siomply laid out but you get the hang of it pretty quick 4/10
ease of navigation- all you can do is scroll down
bias- it has abias towards america oddly hinting chin is vaguely superior
Sarah Johnson
ReplyDelete2nd Period
Falkenblog #194
1. Content: Focuses on different laws in economics.
2. Appearance: It's actually very plain. It has a black background.
3. Ease of Navigation: Posts are separated by year on the right side of the page. Along with links to other articles.
4. Apparent Bias: There is not many since the author states mostly facts.
Don't Worry, I'm an Economist! #161
1. Content: The author writes mostly about books he's read and they are books about economics.
2. Appearance: Has a nice light blue dark blue combo going that looks nice. And has a picture of superman with an E on his chest probably meaning economist
3. Ease of Navigation: Top has links to other subjects, while on the right has different news feeds.
4. Apparent Bias: Not much bias since he mostly reviews books. Stating the facts within them.
Blog #51
ReplyDeleteContent: this blog goes into about everything you can think of. It doesn't focus on only economics. It broadens into statistics, testing, zombies, and even art.
Appearance: it doesn't catch the eye, but you can easily scroll down through his blogs. He also has a category sorter which makes it a lot easier to find whichever topic you're looking for.
Ease of navigation: This blogger has made it super easy to navigate through their blog with a category sorter, comment sorter, and an order by date.
Bias: He doesn't seem to have a bias. He's a supposed fence rider that attempts to satisfy both sides.
Blog #54
Content: This blog contains things about politics, economics, marriage, and life tips. The writer is definitely trying to appeal to a certain viewer and most certainly has a "way of life".
Appearance: The blog has a very basic and boring appearance, as I have said before I believe it is to appeal to a certain viewer. There are pictures scarcely placed throughout the blog.
Ease of Navigation: This blog has a drop down menu to get you to what you're looking for quickly, but it won't get you to the blog you're looking for. You can only scroll down for blogs which are in a chronological order which could become a pain when you're searching for a blog from years ago.
Bias- Based off of solely the name of the site, this blogger is a very one sided liberal.
Blog #51 - Andrew Gelman
ReplyDelete1) Content- As it says in the title,this blog is about "Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science". Most of his content is reviewing article or paper exerpts and commenting on them.
2) Appearance- It was not very visually appealing. There is a lot of text and not many pictures or other colors to break up the text. 3/10
3) Ease of Navigation- All the links work fine, but the long Home page makes it hare to get to older posts.
4) Apparent bias- Very nice unbiased reviews and points. If he does have a bias, he warns about it and makes sure to present the other sides appeal as well.
Blog #54 - Conf. of a Supply-Side Liberal
1) Content- Most of his content is politically based news. he presents an indepentent viewpoint on many of the articles he reviews. Some of his posts are articles with a thought or no comment, others have long and extensive writings.
2) Appearance- Very neat and clean white appearance. It keeps the info seperated and easy to read. 8.5/10.
3) Ease of Navigation- Links worked well and the most important info fromt he webpage was easy to find and very accessible.
4) Apparent bias- In his writings is shows that he holds up to his claim that he is a "independent who grew up in an apolitical family" and who "holds many strong opinions—open to revision in response to cogent arguments—that do not line up neatly with either the Republican or Democratic Party."
147
ReplyDeleteContent:This blog is reactions from the author towards current companies or economically related events. It is almost like a personal diary for the author to share his opinions and his possible solutions or research tied to his conclusions.
Appearance: The appearance is simple, the only colors are cream and white with a slight pop of red in the titles of the posts. I'm not really drawn to read the blogs due to their hefty lengths.
Ease of Navigation: Navigation is easy if you're looking for posts in certain months. There is a search bar for specific key words to pull up posts that may be related to your search query. No complaints on the ease.
Apparent Bias: The bias is that he looks at things from a Britain or Australian perspective. Swift's Modest Proposal is something he highly recommends his readers read before looking at the information he comments on.
151
Content:Majority of the content is news updates on the stock markets and economically related articles. The author then criticizes the situation. He also provides his own personal life updates and comments on the economics related to it.
Appearance:The picture on the front page is striking and makes you want to look at the rest of the blog. Although it is very black and white in text, the organization is nicely placed, allowing one to look at specific titles before clicking onto the link. There is a black box on the side of the page which shows a word cloud of how often terms are mentioned on the blog.
Ease of Navigation: Everything is accessible from the front page, and topics are easily listed to find. A search bar, however, is highly recommended to add to the site.
Bias: There is a lot of self-bias in his articles due to a depth of the research and flow models used in order to analyze companies and their quarterly reports. His experiences are used to connect to these articles quite often.
Taylor Hunter
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Blog 96: The conglomerate
1) Content-this blog focuses on Christopher Bruner's news article
2) Appearance-it seems to be geared toward the more seasoned reader, as it is not visually appealing.
3) Ease of Navigation-the blog is easily navigable. It is a vertical blog that doesn't require and navigation off the page to view the blog in it's entirety.
4) Apparent bias-the blog poses an apparent progressive bias, praising Bruner's work.
Blog 98:Half Sigma
1) Content-the blog feautures many political stories most surrounding the federal government.
2) Appearance-it is visually appearing because the background has color and includes pictures.
3) Ease of Navigation-the blog is easy to navigate because all of the different article previews are on one page.
4) Apparent bias-the writer seems to be apparently conservative because of the opposition to the Obama administration and other key liberal views (drugs).
Oluwamuyiwa Peters
ReplyDelete2nd
Blog #162
1) Content:this blog is about the economic aspects of modern society, to familiarize them with techniques for the analysis of contemporary economic problems, and to develop in them an ability to exercise judgment in evaluating public policy.
2) Appearance:The blog is very dull, doesn't catch the readers eye
3) Ease of Navigation:Poor navigation things aren't labeled properly and are cramped together
4) Apparent bias: Speaks on a higher level a common man cant understand him.
Blog #163
1) Content:This blog contains information on papers about economics and gaming technology.
2) Appearance:Very well organized, has bright colors easy for the average joe to understand.
3) Ease of Navigation:Very easily navigated everything titled and subtitled.
4) Apparent bias:Topic isn't broad,its quite singular if you aren't a computer science major or writing a essay for economics you'll learn nothing new
Saniza Sunesara
ReplyDeletePeriod - 6
blog#157-- Economics and psychological research
1) Content: The blog contains a number of key themes in the development of innovative and pragmatic survey design, which include the use of short-form psychometric measure and the facts of health and well-being.
2) Appearance: The blog starts off with a main concept, that it further explained in a few paragraphs.
3) Ease of Navigation: The format of which it is laid out in makes it easy to read and understand.
4) Apparent Bias: The blog is informative as it gives a detailed explanation about psychology and the economy. However, it doesn't favor one side over the other.
Blog# 144 -- Environmental and Urban Economics
1)Content: This blog talks about the gas price of cars in USA is going up
2) Appearance: This is very short and interesting. It has a nice ribbon hanging out on the left corner of the page showing the date.
3)Ease of Navigation: This is simple to understand; if you scroll down you will see lots of articles that are short and simple to understand.
4. Bias: This blog states that the author wants the gas prices to be affordable for the drivers whenever they travel.
Doris Chien
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Blog 197: Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles’ Blog
1) Content- this blog is about the journal, "Econometrics" inviting applications and nominations for the 2017 Young Researcher Award.
2) Appearance- it is not that appealing. There are a bunch of words and articles.
3) Ease of Navigation- the blog is pretty easy to navigate. All the articles are on the same page.
4) Apparent bias- there does not seem to be any bias in this blog
Blog 198: Decision Science News
1) Content- this blog is about Behavioral Economics, Data Science, Statistics, Marketing, Management, Psychology, Computer Science, Medicine, Policy, and Law.
2) Appearance- the blog is easily navigable even though all the articles are on one page. It can be hard sometimes to find articles from the past.
3) Ease of Navigation- the blog is easy to navigate. All the articles are on the same page.
4) Apparent bias- this blog is unbiased. The author is just stating facts.
Rushil Mistry
ReplyDeletePeriod: 6th
Blog #181 (Ideas)
1) Content: This is blog focuses on a mistakes some one made during there midterm, and it also focuses on how political campaigns use social media.
2) Appearance: The blog is okay it has light dull color looking at the website it seems boring and so not visually appealing to the reader.
3) Ease of Navigation: Navigation around the website Is easy, finding other older bogs and archives is very easy.
4) Apparent bias: Not biased at all since he is honestly talking about what he read during the midterms and he has done research about social media and political campaigns so not biased.
Blog #190 (Everything Finance)
1) Content: The blog focuses mainly on cash and policies related to treasury.
2) Appearance: The site looks okay not that many colors, mostly white and too plain for the reader.
3) Ease of Navigation: Kinda of easy but then again little confusing because their is not a lot to navigate around, its just about scrolling down.
4) Apparent bias: Not biased because they prove their point using research and not biased towards one side.
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ReplyDeleteBlog#143- Tabloid Edition
ReplyDelete1)Content:The blog contains a number of ways of finding ways to go onto a holiday
2) Appearance: The blog starts off as with the authors main focus on his search of holidays
3) ease of navigation: the way the blog is like a sequel it goes in a orderly step.
4) Apparent Bias:The blog is very useful and helpful. It gives detailed examples of how to find a good quality vacation.
Blog# 182 Labour and capital
1) Content: the blog is about significant shift in thinking about corporate governance
2) Appearance: the site is very colorful
3) Ease Of navigation: You can easily scroll through the blog and has informative graphs
4) Apparent bias: he believes corporations shouldn't govern over policy
Jacob Gassmann
ReplyDeletePeriod 2
Blog #168-Pannell Discussions
Content: the first article seemed to grabbed my attention. There's no significant amount of rhetoric in the content.
Appearance: Straightforward, plain white layout so there's nothing to focus on except for the actual blog posts.
Ease of Navigation: Nothing particularly hard to find, shows you where to find all past blog posts. Looks like you can skim through the paragraphs and understand the info.
apparent bias: There is mention of Trump in the first post but in the second the author says he did not "cherry pick the comments" so there is no apparent bias.
Blog #81-orgtheory.net
Content: About half of the posts are actually about economics and I can't even understand what the rest are about.
Appearance: Very bland and slightly confusing, the information on the right is very redundant and the appearance is not appealing.
Ease of Navigation: relatively easy to navigate, it just feels more like a social media site rather than an economic blog site (let alone a blog site)
Apparent bias: whenever it isn't a humorous video that is posted, the topic of the blog seems to involve a liberal topic or have to do with sociology for some reason.
Elian Basanta
ReplyDelete2nd period
Blog #29 The Becker-Posner Blog
1) content- The blogs are based around a discussion of two liberal figures that debate a certain point that they want to get across. In there they have talked about the legalization of marijuana to the cuban embargo
2) Appearance- the looks of this blog is a retro one that gives the sense that an older simpler person build it. it looks simple and old
3) Ease of Navigation:although it may look old the blog was an easy one to navigate through. With a calendar the audience can select specific dates that a certain point was talked about with ease.
4) The obvious bias is that the discussion is based around only two persons and if they think very similarly it would not serve as a good argument.
Blog #128 Macro Business
1) Content- the blog is based around the economic news of austria and the impacts that word events have in the economy of the country. Although it has other branches that write about the economy of other countries, but the main focus is Australia.
2) Appearance- the blog looks like a media outlet website, much like cnn. Giving it a very modern look to the blog. The red theme gives the some excitement that would help them when the readers read the articles.
3) Ease of Navigation- Going through the blog was not difficult and it made it easier for the readers to find bloggers that they liked, if the reader had a favorite. It also gave way to articles about other countries rather than Australia.
4) Apparent Bias- As an American reader the biggest bias would be that most of the blogger are Australian. This could impact the way they write about a story.
Chandler Jacobs
ReplyDeletePd 2
Blog #60
Content: This blog addresses gender policy in India and correcting gender issues through bill of rights.
Appearance: The blog looks somewhat childish, it looks like quite unprofessional. It is not that it is hard to read, but it just doesn't have the professional look of like a New York Times blog.
Ease of Navigation: It is easy to navigate through the blog. There were bolded titles which provide good organization.
Apparent Bias: The blog seems to be in favor of Bill of Rights in India. This is apparent as the say "the beauty of the bill of rights..."
Blog #154
Content: This blog deals with Chinese economics and how important and vital it is to the global economy.
Appearance: The blog is designed decently. It is not bad as I can clearly see everything, but it is not the most appealing design.
Ease of Access: It is very easy to navigate btwn the titles and headlines of this blog.
Apparent bias: I did not notice any apparent bias as it mentions both sides of Chinese economy impact. Mostly stating facts rather than opinions.
Mauricio Franco
ReplyDeletePeriod:6
Blog #69
Content: The blog is about many recreational and local community occurrences. It deals with the experiences of the blogger and their experiences. The content is somewhat organized in a sort of frame to frame explanation sequence, but does not delve deeply into any specific matter.
Appearance: It is nothing extremely fancy and has a sort of offset title, giving it the sense that it could be made by any common community member.
Ease of access: The site has good font size, making accessibility to articles easier and has a fairly simple categorized layout.
Apparent Bias: They build a negative connotation around bureaucrats and the dealings of government; more focused on personal involvement and self importance. There is less of a factual statement used and is very opinionated.
Blog #71
Content: Non-existent
Appearance: There is no apparent blog
Ease of Access: This blog is inaccessible
Apparent bias: There is none to identify
Michael Rosario
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Blog # 173
1) Content: The website is about mainly economic articles and situations that occur throughout the globe. The content is organized and set in such a way for those to view it easily
2) Appearance: The website has an extremely basic layout with all white tabs and plain text. Hoever this could be to make it easier to navigate.
3) Ease of Navigation: Everything is labeled which makes it easy to find what you are looking for and has a search bar as well.
4) Apparent bias: There is an obvious United States bias as the website was made in the United States
Blog # 199
1) Content: The content is pretty substantial as there is alot to take in due to the large amount of updated content that features economic and money stories from around the globe:
2) Appearance: The layout is extremly basic and looks as though it was designed several years ago. as there are boring blue tabs, and it is definitely not updated for the current time
3) Ease of Navigation: The website is gnerally easy to navigate as everything has labes, however my only complaint is that it is super basic and has no search button for articles
4) Apparent bias: There appears to be no inherent bias in this article.
priyanka ranchod
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blog 115- capital chronicle
content: This blog discusses negative and positive rates, as well as negative and positive correlation in economics.
Appearance:The appearance of this blog is very plain, the thing the stands out most is the tabs on the side. The blog was rather words, rather than appealing to the eyes.
Ease of navigation: The blog is very easy to navigate and it is broken down into may subsections.
Bias: The author appears to be biased towards the macquire story.
Blog #111
content: This blog is about the social and economic effect on global climate.
Appearance: This blogs appearance is structured really nicely. everything is sectioned and subsections are bolded making it look really nice. Everything is also made in a color scheme to.
ease of navigation: This blog is very easy to navigate and it is also broken down into many different tabs.
bias:This blog is biased towards the fact that climate changes can have a negative impact on the outcome of the economy.
Joshua Biju 6th Period
ReplyDeleteBlog #184 Rajiv Sethi’s weblog
1) Content-In Raji Sethi's blog he talks about how incentives can lead to increased behavior rising in equilibrium.
2) Appearance-It is pretty straightforward and simple and just gives you the facts
3)Ease of Navigation- It is very easy to navigate through his article.
4)Apparent Bias-Rajiv is biased on the fact that he believes that incentives can lead to increased behavior economically.
Blog 186: Conversable Economists
1)Content-This blog discusses how the author believes that the United States should follow other countries leads in allowing more parental leave for parents and especially mothers.
2)Appearance-It is very simple layout that shows the information vividly.
3)Ease of Navigation- It is very simple and easy to navigate throughout the page
4)Apparent Bias- This article has apparent bias because the author believes that the United States should give mothers more parental leave. Other countries get up to a year, while the maximum allowed in the United States is just a mere 12 weeks.
Akhil Singh 2nd Period
ReplyDeleteBlog#142
Stephen Williamson: New Monetarist Economics
1) Content- This blog discusses inflation rates in particular countries, on whether increases are temporary or permanent.
2) Appearance- Straightforward article that touches on the bases of inflation rates in particular countries, many graphs.
3) Ease of Navigation- Very easy to navigate through article.
4) Apparent bias- This article is biased based on Stephen Williamson's views and nothing else, he states the articles and scientific findings are his own and this articles purpose is based on that.
Blog #145
EconoSpeak
1) Content- This blog discusses the overall economic problems, and cavities in many incorrect issues being discussed daily.
2) Appearance - The appearance is very simple, and straightforward that lays out posts in blog type format.
3) Ease of Navigation- Very easy to navigate, simple listing of blogs.
4) Apparent bias - I did not notice any appearance bias, as it was pretty open.
Mervin Cherian
ReplyDeletePeriod:6
Blog #154
All Roads lead to China
1) Content- This blog is about a company Foxconn which manufactures many brands, but finally they are manufacturing their own brand.
2)Appearance- This blog is pretty straightforward. Whoever the blogger is, he is talking to the reader like he was his friend. The blogger combines his thoughts with facts.
3) Ease of Navigation- Very easy to navigate through the article. It was a short and sweet blog.
4) Apparent Bias- This has both facts from credible websites with the bloggers thought.
Blog #116
Chicago Boyz
1) Content- Talks about how Independence and diversity is a good thing.
2) Appearance- It was funny, ironic. His message went through smart and witty comments.
3) Ease of Navigation- Very easy to Navigate.
4) Apparent Bias- This blog was about Steve Sailer's ideology and beliefs.
2nd
ReplyDeleteDuncan's Economic Blog
1. Content: The author focuses on politicians' economic maneuverings and macroeconomics.
2. Appearance: The site is very plain and neat.
3. Ease of Navigation: Very simple but effective search functions.
4. Bias: No apparent bias.
Pannell Discussions
1. Content: The author covers everything from music to psychology.
2. Appearance: The appearance is no-frills and neat.
3. Ease of Navigation: The tags makes content searchable.
4. Bias: No apparent bias.