What does WWW stand for? To me, it's Worth Watching Website.
Every website has a certain value to grab our attention.
I divide the websites I check out regularly in three categories in terms of the way I see them.
Part Zero: Just as Ground Zero, I should start from the most
important part: US-based national opinion sites.
Frankly speaking, I'm never a politics-mania, or more
specifically, I'm a politics-phobia. As a student from a country where politics
is never a topic allowed in public conversations, I seldom got the opportunity
to speak out, or even to form my own perspectives. This explains why all those
political issues were like the characters carved on the Pyramids to me,
irresolvable.
However, I still like to talk a little bit about you political
tastes. Any party that could provide us Chinese a more freely environment to
express our own opinions gets my vote! (We don't vote in
All the online journalism review websites just astounded me
the moment I browsed all the titles on the front page. How come they write out
their views so freely? Aren't their works being blocked? And after a while, I
realized, I am in the
This is all about the current situation and future of online
journalism, which increasingly calls for our greater attention.
In the digital-dominated world of Journalism, the voice from
this website really weighs a lot when we are trying to shape our own opinion as
a new-era journalist.
The color of the whole page is pretty viewer-friendly, and
this is the best way to help the readers concentrate on nothing but the
contents, not the font styles or fancy colors.
3. http://www.nationalreview.com/
Political issues are always main topics on most of American
review websites. It seems to me, the health care issue always gets the most
eyeballs and the fewest applauds in the
Always in pursuit of the better days for my fellows and
introducing a better
No matter where I am, I have been and always will be a Chinese.
Checking out what is going on around my country and all the amazing things happen on my buddies back in
1. http://www.danwei.org/
Danwei is a Chinese website having a fate as all the American sites. It's always blocked when some certain sensitive events took place, like the Xinjiang riot in July.
There are more critics than praises on Chinese issues published on this site, which more or less explains why it's blocked sometimes.
But to me, only by revealing the truth and criticizing the dark part can we move on to the brighter days, so this is a website I'm always a pro in.
This website is the first news website in terms of blog I've ever followed. They tend to publish articles more pointedly and directly. This is an unusual website in
2. http://forum.byr.edu.cn
It is a tradition that every Chinese university has an online forum open to all their students. We can use the forum to discuss whatever topics we are interested in. Also we can share information, songs, videos and any interesting stuff.
What makes it different from Renren, is that students care more about the comments, the replies to the posts. While in Renren, the topic one opens attracts more eyeballs.
3.http://home.renren.com/Home.do
This is like a Chinese Facebook, with the name :Renren, meaning everyone. We Chinese students log on the website everyday to update our status, share photos, sites, videos and any information that we think worth sharing with friends. The only difference between Facebook and Renren is the users of Renren are all Chinese speakers. But Facebook is on an international base.
Renren is not a news website, but it's a news sharing site, just as forum.bry.edu.cn.
Part II: nothing is better than being connected to the whole world.
One of the best part I find on every website, is the "Most" section. Under the section, the articles are listed in different columns such as "Most Viewed", "Most E-mailed", "Most Recommended" and "most Commented". This is a smart idea which can save people a lot of time from browsing through the long page in order not to miss the stuff most people find worth reading.
As for the differences, I think it is their different focuses.
1. www.yahoo.com
In my opinion, the reader-friendly, concise homepage is what YAHOO! shines among all the main news websites. The twenty features neatly displayed (View image) on the left side on the homepage make it much simpler for browsers to navigate the information sea.
According to the way YAHOO! organizes the categories, it is a more entertainment-orientated website with the Featured, Entertainment, Sports and Life sections above the News, World, Local and Finance sections.
2.http://www.newsweek.com/
If YAHOO! is for spare time, then Newsweek is for serious moment.
National, political, international news as well as business, high-tech and cultural issues always come first.
Before moving on, I'd like to talk a
little bit more about the way TIME and NEWSWEEK reporting
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Every day I wake up wondering what the day is all about in history.
That's what makes me a wiki-mania.
Unlike the news websites, only publishing articles by the professionals,
Wikipedia is a platform for people from all over the world to share knowledge
of everything. There is no certain style for the writing, like the AP style in
newswriting.
And no websites have more language versions than Wiki does. Just as the
slogan on the homepage says, "Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
that anyone can edit." That's what makes Wiki unique.
Part III: nothing is more amazing than sticking to basketball, to me
1. www.nba.com
No where else is more ideal than NBA-dot-com to get as close as possible
to all the players, to keep ourselves updated of our teams new move. Take the
articles about games as an example. The tone is more objective and official,
just focusing on describing the game by providing some interesting notes and
details about the super stars' performance.
2. http://hoopchina.com
This website covers both domestic and foreign basketball news. All the
writers for this site share some humor that is highly praised by Chinese
basketball fans.
Humor is always a must for eye-catching websites.
Different websites have their different approach to
attract readers and get full-time followers. The layout of a website does
matter a lot as readers are becoming pickier these days. So does the topic and
tone it focuses on.
If we want readers, we should know what the readers want
first.
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