Friday, October 21, 2011

QN: VISIT SOME KENYAN BLOGS, SUCH AS AFRIGADGET, GATHARA’S WORLD, MENTALACROBATICS, KENYAN PUNDIT, THINKER’S ROOM, OR KENYAN URBAN NARRATIVE. DESCRIBE SOME OF THE BLOGS AND THEIR CONTENT AND COMPARE THEM WITH POPULAR TANZANIAN BLOGS.

By Felix Mwagara

Hi Guys, today is our last day to attend the training of Investigative Internet Journalism here in Tanzania Global Development Learning Centre (TGDLC) at Dar es Salaam City, in Tanzania, the training was organized by The Media Institute of Southern Africa-Tanzania Chapter (Misa-Tan) and facilitated by Peik Johansson, a knowledgeable Journalist from Finland.
As you have seen a question above on this blog which now driving me to discuss intensely, accurately the Kenyan blogs and their content and there after comparing them with our blogs in Tanzania. Before starting focusing in deeper about the Kenyan Blogs, let us now jump to know what blog is as will be defined in shortly here under;
According to the different internet sources as well as my instructor Mr Peik, without forgetting the blog milestone internet;
Blogs are websites with different content management systems that allow visitors (viewers) to the site to add content. Also blogs are forums for organizations and individuals to exchange ideas and communicate with their partners, customers, employees, just a few mentioned.
In connection to that, in blog you can create pages relevant for your business, post articles on different subjects, and offer a platform for others to write their comments or opinions on that post according to way they see it. Guys, I hope that you have seen and understood the completely blog definitions above, so know am going to explain the Kenyan Blogs as I have browsed by visiting them through the internet.
KENYAN BLOGS AND THEIR CONTENT
Firstly and foremost in frontline is Afrigadget.com, whereby in this blog you can browse through writing in your address bar then you will get full details on it through afrigadget By the way on my side after having the intensive looking on this blog, I discover a lot of things, as follows;
The blog has so many contents, there are so many pictures and its captions posted and those are very attractive which can convince visitors not being tired of visiting it, and the pictures can be viewed by any people either is adult or child, also the blog has very long and attractive text.
Another blog from Kenya is Gathara's World,  in this blog there is long text even if the numbers of text are very few, despite the fact that the message of the text is very long, by the way this is good simply because can help viewers to get full details if there is special or interest issues he/she looking for.

THE COMPARISON BTN KENYAN BLOGS AND TANZANIAN BLOGS
After visiting the six Kenyan blogs I discover so many things comparing with popular blogs in Tanzania as will be explained here under;
UPDATES
The all six Kenyan Blogs are not bring people up to date  comparing with Tanzania blogs such as Michuzi that is the blog is always current by updating the viewers for every minutes and also it has good content and making a number of people visited increasing as days goes on. In Afrigadget Kenyan blog, a last time for being updated is August 23rd, 2011 so viewers have anxious to receive new things.
ADVERTS
Because of being up to date, you can see that there is big different between the receiving of adverts on Kenyan blogs and Tanzania blogs, such as 8020fashions and dinamarious and ladjayde from Tanzania you can see so many adverts from the top to the bottom of the blog and it has good arrangement of contents comparing in all six Kenyan blogs which has few or no any advert.
APPEARANCE
Kenyan blogs are attractive in the point if their contents while the Tanzanian blogs are attractive in the point of appearance especially by having on going adverts as well as the way blog designed.
But all in all the Kenyan blogs has a lot of CONTENTS and also so many stories in the different issues such as Economically, Socially and Politically but in our Tanzanian blogs apart from most of them written in Swahili language but owners of those blogs posted a lot of pictures with captions but not a long story explaining a certain thing as Kenyan blogs does such as Mentalacrobatics, Kenyan Pundit, Thinker’s Room and Kenyan Urban Narrative.

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