Metafilter

**THE BLOG/CONTENT/TONE** Metafilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.

​ Its content includes post of things that people find amazing, enlightening, or useful. So basically anything that anyone who is a member has an interest in can be posted.

A strength is that you have to gain your right to post an actual link, by sticking around for at least a week and making a few creditable comments on other posts. A weakness might be that as long as you follow those guidelines you can become an active member and post daily and since there are some many members posting daily.
 *  STRENGTHS/WEAKNESSES OF THE BLOG **

The audience includes anyone who is willing to post or anyone who feels the need to post interesting things that they find world wide. There are thing posted from how spitting your gum on the sidewalk is a problem in NYC to when bluegrass was invented.
 * AUDIENCE **

The site design is very simple just the date and a list of posts in order of time they are posted of that day. In your post you include links to the topic of your post. The site also allows for tags and comments on each post. Along with just the page of posts there is FAQ’s, About, Popular, and Random tabs for you to look at. Another interesting tab is the achieves tab, which they encourage new users to look at to get a feel for what people want to read about.
 *  SITE DESIGN **

Commenting is allowed, but you have to be a member of the site to leave a comment. Requirements for a good post are: something most people haven't seen it before, something interesting about the content on the page, or something that might warrant discussion from others. If contributors don't stick to the guidelines, their post may be deleted, their posting privileges may be revoked, or their account may be deleted.
 *  COMMENTING & MODERATION **

Metafilter hasn't been in the news a lot, but it has been mentioned briefly in articles about other topics. The only major article I found about Metafilter was it's story in [|Time Magazine's 25 Best Blogs of 2009].
 *  IN THE NEWS **

** ADVERTISING **  Metafilter does advertise, but its ads are very small (which I like). The site does its advertising through a company called [|Federated Media Publishing] . Essentially this company just connects the administration of Metafilter (and its other clients) with companies who want to advertise on their site.

** TRAFFIC & BUSINESS INFORMATION **  In the FAQ section of the site, Metafilter addresses who is in charge of the site and how to get in contact with them. There isn't any information on traffic information that I could find.

//This page was created by Ashley Alford and Heather Tawney as part of the coursework for the Winter 2010 semester of PrnJ 493A - Blogging and Interactive Journalism//