Please select 3 of the remaining blogs that you would like to see make the next round in our Blog-Off Tournament...
Abel To Yzerman
Nightmare On Helm Street
Snipe Snipe, Dangle Dangle
The Production Line
The Triple Deke
This week we ask you to select which blog does the best at presenting both sides of every story?
For every member that takes the time to click these links, check these blogs out, vote in the poll and impress me with a critique on any one blog mentioned, I will be giving out Jersey Awards throughout the contest.
So let's hear what you have to say... and let's please try our best to be constructive with our words.
(This tourney encourages fans of all teams to participate and not just fans of the team in question.)
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Wings Blog-Off (Round 3)
Started by **LS**, Dec 13 2009 10:18 PM
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Posted 13 December 2009 - 10:18 PM
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Posted 14 December 2009 - 12:03 AM
I just need to say looking / reading through these blogs as a former wings fan, its amazing how much things can change in opinion year to year for the team.
Anyway, the one I liked the most, the most even sided blog of these has to be nightmare on helm street. Although depending on the game, some articles can be highly opinionated heavily towards one side (when you lose a few games, it happens) I did enjoy reading through a few pages of articles on the site, the author is clearly well informed, not just ranting and raving about good or bad things (even though there is a mini rant on the first page).
Overall the ones I liked the best and voted for though, were NOHS, snipe snipe dangle dangle and abel2yzerman.
Anyway, the one I liked the most, the most even sided blog of these has to be nightmare on helm street. Although depending on the game, some articles can be highly opinionated heavily towards one side (when you lose a few games, it happens) I did enjoy reading through a few pages of articles on the site, the author is clearly well informed, not just ranting and raving about good or bad things (even though there is a mini rant on the first page).
Overall the ones I liked the best and voted for though, were NOHS, snipe snipe dangle dangle and abel2yzerman.
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Posted 14 December 2009 - 03:02 PM
I love blogs: both reading and writing them.
I have way too many bookmarked and rss'd and never have enough time to keep up with them all. I have dog blogs, photography and art blogs, Columbus blogs, marketing blogs, cancer blogs, breast cancer blogs, social media blogs, blogs about blogs, general writing "slice of life" blogs...and of course, hockey blogs.
Here is what I look for in a blog:
1. read-ability: don't be so wordy that I get lost in what you are trying to tell me. Make sure I learn something and make sure it's interesting but don't try to use your freaking thesaurus to impress me with every posting.
2. humor: not in every posting but often enough so that I don't feel like I am in school when I drop by to read what you have to say.
3. make sense: if I am new to you or your subject matter don't freak me out. Make it easy to follow and interact and figure out what you are trying to tell me (links to inside jokes, prior posts, tags, etc)
I chose Snipe, Snipe, Dangle, Dangle because it filled all my criteria and I really liked it!
I love that the writer has a very consistent pattern for each game: Pregame GP with 4-5 questions, Post-game "snipes", then answeres the pregame questions, followed by a "what I learned" from each game.
That's a lot of work!
Plus she mixes in some other editorial postings inbetween the games (and yes - it's a SHE!)
So I voted for this one and I am going to recommend it if you WIngs fans haven't gone by there.
The other ones were so-so. Of particular annoyance I have to say is Nightmare on Helm Street - which is one of those bBlogs that really only exists to entertain (15 words and a photo is not a posting. Open a twitter account). Not a bad thing but I don't think it really is a contributing much to the world of hockey fandom.
But that's just my opinion.
I have way too many bookmarked and rss'd and never have enough time to keep up with them all. I have dog blogs, photography and art blogs, Columbus blogs, marketing blogs, cancer blogs, breast cancer blogs, social media blogs, blogs about blogs, general writing "slice of life" blogs...and of course, hockey blogs.
Here is what I look for in a blog:
1. read-ability: don't be so wordy that I get lost in what you are trying to tell me. Make sure I learn something and make sure it's interesting but don't try to use your freaking thesaurus to impress me with every posting.
2. humor: not in every posting but often enough so that I don't feel like I am in school when I drop by to read what you have to say.
3. make sense: if I am new to you or your subject matter don't freak me out. Make it easy to follow and interact and figure out what you are trying to tell me (links to inside jokes, prior posts, tags, etc)
I chose Snipe, Snipe, Dangle, Dangle because it filled all my criteria and I really liked it!
I love that the writer has a very consistent pattern for each game: Pregame GP with 4-5 questions, Post-game "snipes", then answeres the pregame questions, followed by a "what I learned" from each game.
That's a lot of work!
Plus she mixes in some other editorial postings inbetween the games (and yes - it's a SHE!)
So I voted for this one and I am going to recommend it if you WIngs fans haven't gone by there.
The other ones were so-so. Of particular annoyance I have to say is Nightmare on Helm Street - which is one of those bBlogs that really only exists to entertain (15 words and a photo is not a posting. Open a twitter account). Not a bad thing but I don't think it really is a contributing much to the world of hockey fandom.
But that's just my opinion.
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Posted 16 December 2009 - 01:18 PM
I chose The Production Line because I think they best represented the criteria for this round. They, like most blogs have almost all of their emphasis on the Red Wings in previews but do a decent job at telling you about the opposing teams. I think overall it could improve in the sense of giving both sides of the story but I still feel it did the best job out of the choices available.
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Posted 17 December 2009 - 12:23 PM
This is way too hard. I love all of those blogs. I chose three, but it wasn't easy.
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Posted 23 December 2009 - 02:52 PM
I voted for A2Y, because, even though they have only 19 readers, I have it on good authority they are all deviants.
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