The Huffington Post was recently named as the top blog on Technorati's Top 100 blog list. This title made me curious to spend time on the Huffington Post website in order to determine why they might have been given this honor.
In fact, when going to The Huffington Post you can expect to find up to date postings on a variety of topics. Contained within this one page there is information about everything from politics to Playboy! All news appetites can be satisfied in one way or another just by visiting this site.
The details of this site are impressive. Each section has its own color scheme. The homepage is Green, Politics page is blue, the Media page is orange and so on. The subtle change alerts the reader that they have entered a new section; however the overall feel of the individual sections is the same. That is to say, you still know you are on the same site because the layout is consistent throughout.
In some ways the layout feels more like a tabloid than a news paper because there are a lot of pictures. However some of the articles include a headline with a paragraph or so of the articles text to entice the reader.
What's nice about this blog is that information is truly and honestly presented. Some of the articles give the feeling of a newspaper article where facts are presented clearly. Then there is also a featured blog post section boasting "If you have something to say...Say it on the Huffington Post." Here there are opinionated blogs that feature the writers thoughts on a newsworthy topic.
After spending an extended amount of time on the site I can see why it would be named as the top blog.
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