• Monday, May 19, 2008
Practical 8
In this blog post, I will still have to evaluate one website which is the TalkingCock website.
1) Purpose
The purpose of TalkingCock is to preserve and advance the authentic voice of Singaporeans. It also aims to provide Singaporeans with nonsense stories and jokes.
2) Coverage
This website covers quite a lot of things that are happening around us. Some of the materials that are covered:
News
- News in Briefs
- Local News
- International News
- Politics
- Business
- Sports
- The Arts
This news is actually having Singaporeans to have a good laugh at ourselves and our society.
Well, the intended audience for this website is a mocking site for Singaporeans which the website will write articles to poke fun at local events and happenings.
3) Authority
TalkingCock was founded in August 2000 as a forum for people to share their jokes with each other.
It has since gathered millions of page views and a subscribership in the tens of thousands. It also has been debated in Singapore’s parliament, being featured on the BBC, Time Magazine etc.
4) Accuracy
As this website is mainly writing articles to laugh at Singaporeans, I believe that there is not much accuracy in the website. Besides, the website has also some ‘Singlish’ language in it therefore I think that the facts are not accurate.
5) Currency
The information provided in the website is up-to-date. They will take the current news of Singapore and make an entertainment of it.
6) Accessibility
The website is quite easily accessible as users can be able to view the entertainment quite freely. However, if anyone wants to post anything, they would have to be a member and then they will be able to log-in.
7) Presentation and Arrangement
I feel that the information are still quite well-presented and arranged as the materials are quite organized. Links are all neatly arranged at the left so users can be able to look for the navigations quite easily.
There is also a search facility for users to search their items faster.
8) Usability
This website is quite easy to use and the navigations are easily to search. Therefore, users would not have any difficulty using the website.
9) Overall Quality
In overall, I feel that this website can be sustainable to a certain extent as they have managed to achieve the purpose of providing entertainment to Singaporeans by making a joke out of the news. Besides, the overall website is quite well-maintained and the navigations are also clearly presented.
Next, our group was supposed to react to this TalkingCock website if we were a Singaporean. Well as a Singaporean, I feel that this website can be considered as an entertainment website. By looking at this website, Singaporeans would then be able to know the ugly side of their own country. However I feel that the people doing the website should know their own limit and not post too much dirty comments about our own country. It will not be very nice having the other countries looking at the ugly side of Singapore.
My Reflection
Well, after doing several times of evaluating websites, I realised that to see whether if a website is good or bad, we will have to evaluate it using several criterias. The various criterias are Purpose, Coverage, Authority, Accuracy, Currency, Accessbility, Presentation and Arrangement, Usability and lastly is the Overall Quality.
Only know did I realise that there is such as website called TalkingCock. To me, this website provides jokes and entertainment to the people. After looking through the website, I do understand the whole purpose and coverage of the TalkingCock website.
Bye!~
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