Monday, July 27, 2009

Keith's Exemplary Blog: First Post Office


I'd provide a caption and source note, but, ahem, the blog author did not give us one!
(August 2: By the way, Keith quickly corrected this -- check out his blog!)

Frontier Washingtonians: As we close in on the deadline for your course projects, I am going to begin to feature blogs with my comments to call your attention to exemplary work -- what do I look for in 3.0 plus efforts? These will give you some samples. I'm beginning with Keith's recent post on "The Seattle Post Office – Long lines and terrible service since 1852." Have a look at Keith's lively blog.

Also note my comment: "Keith, there is a lot to like in this post: good writing, lots of good energy and humor, good use of images, good bibliographic references. and a nice set of links. All very good. At a couple of places, however, you leave your leader with insufficient information — something to avoid. (1) Let your reader know the identity and source of every image — missing for your old post office picture; (2) when you go to another site, let the reader know where you are going — I wasn’t sure where I was when I clicked on the bibliography link. I’m going to “feature” your post and my comment on my course home blog — take that, even with the caveats, as a compliment!
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4 comments:

  1. ColeJuly 27, 2009 at 11:57 PM

    indeed it was a good post! good work keith!

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  2. KeithJuly 28, 2009 at 7:47 AM

    I added source info to the picture (historylink.org). I had a caption on it when you hovered the mouse over the images, but I made them less subtle now. :-)

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  3. Marla's Frontier Washington BlogJuly 28, 2009 at 6:59 PM

    Yes, great pic and post...Phil and Prof...I'm focusing most of my work on my website which I will post my final project on, rather than my blog. I am considering my website to be a work in progress, meaning...something that will exist well after this class is finished and something that I intend to put extra special effort into.

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  4. Bill YoungsJuly 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM

    Good going, Keith! I see that you have added more information on that old post office. It would be even better if you linked to the actual place in HistoryLink (URL) where the image appears.

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