Assignment 2. (The good)

I chose to write about a blog related to independent movie news. http://www.indiewire.com/

It is a blog inside a main page It is also a commercial website. It is now owned by SnagFilms. It was first launched as a newsletter in 1996 focusing on news service for the independent films. But the website itself was launched in 1998 and also redesigned in 2011. It is meant to cover the lesser-known film events ignored by the mainstreams. It is good in its own way, since there is competition, they work hard to get some news and give something to the viewers to read about. There is something new in the blog every few hours. http://www.indiewire.com/blogs

What’s the purpose of the blog? The blog is made to provide news and rumors about what happening in the world of independent movies and documentaries. There seems to be number of writers writing on this blog. The website itself, write reviews of movies, updates about TV shows and movies it has all it takes to be one of the same old entertainment web pages. Because of the number of writers/bloggers, and the wideness of entertainment business, there are many things to cover and there is always something to write about. In my view this blog/website is successful because it has been working on the field for many years. This company seems to have wide network mostly all related to movies and critics. There are blogs from year 2004 to 2015 and also there are multiple posts per day. It seems to be one of the renowned website among TV-movies fanatics. I commented on a bloggers post asking why he blogs. The answer is yet to come I shall update if he replies.

I visited the Wikipedia of the indiewire itself. There seems to be information about who works in the company and how it all started and the current situation. There isn’t everything mentioned in detail but one can make a picture of what it is from reading the available information.