Blog Review: Life Hacker

As a group, we chose the blog Life Hacker on the website http://lifehacker.com/. The general idea of these blog postings is to simply inform the reader of good ways to life hack. Life hacking is defined as "a strategy or technique adopted in order to manage one's time and daily activities in a more efficient way". This blog does this by posting one or more blogs a day in thousands of different categories. 

There are many things that make this blog more interesting. It posts a variety of things that most people don't know and is applicable to every day life. It has a wide scale of topics that reach out to many different types of readers. The language and writing style used varies depending on the topic of the blog. Most posts are casual but informative. They relay information in a clear concise way. This post is popular because everyone looks for short cuts in their every day life. This post does just that, it gives us information and shows a different perspective. The set up of this blog is simple yet effective. It is usually just a picture accompanied with an article of what the life hack is. The page is easy to navigate.  

Rating
Interest: 10
Language: 8
Popularity: 10
Visuals: 6
Writing Style: 8

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