The topic of our blog is the NBA and everything this encompasses from individual players, teams both old and new, and most importantly the post season playoff series. This blog topic being about the NBA creates a large audience to be drawn from a global scale as the game is played and recognized internationally. Any age group, gender, religious and political views are not involved as the game itself does not discriminate, thus creating a community to share a commonality. As the blog will be a platform to share the sport, the finalized layout is done to decrease vector and misinterpreting lines to instead opt for a more simplified text, followed by text structure with all the foot headers,links to other various things such as archives and dates, at the end of the blog to allow a simulating and aesthetic appeal to the blog.
In regards to the blog being shared it had its benefits, disadvantages and challenges. The blog benefitted from having members who all shared the same taste in basketball, but this also became a challenge to overcome due to differences. As with any sport, there comes to a degree of bias when it comes to talking or writing about a specific team. This showed in the final blog posts as within each post, excluding not showing stats, contain some basis of bias when it comes to revealing information. We benefitted from having a small group only containing three members, we were able to communicate efficiently when needed, but this too was a challenge as allocating jobs was easy to delegate, but also was easy to be mismanaged as with each member slacking off hoping that others would motivate them and report with progress. Instead of contacting and keeping in contact to as the progress of each of our sections, slacking off and becoming unmotivated, or just simply forgetting, made the running of the blog less efficient. Group meetings itself was a problem as each member had a busy schedule along with other uni and life commitments. These problems and challenges are only considered minor however as they could easily be managed and resolved through communication and motivation.
The game of basketball, and specifically the NBA has a wide range of blog ranging from pure facts, news and bias team based blogs. This makes comparing our blog to the NBA’s official blog, Hangtime, the most prominent and obvious choice. The content of Hangtime is far superior than our blog due to their direct source of knowledge and information, being the first to receive news and content. As most content starts from this site and is used by others it would be the first source for main NBA enthusiasts. Its layout is similar as the content and information is on the main centre, being the focal point for information to be seen. As we have our foot headers and extra external links at the bottom of the page, Hangtime has it on the sides for easier access. This is a clear distincition as ours is placed due to our level of content not up to par with theirs. If we were to have a greater supply of information in order to be processed, the side bar would be the better choice. Hangtime’s level of content and being the official blog means the language is sophisticated and dense with information. Our blog would be a considered a low level blog in comparison to the NBA’s official blog, however our blog is better suited for the everyday NBA follower, due to its use of jargon and overall urban aesthetic and culture.
hangtime.blogs.nba.com
