1. Nicole's post about an apartment fire in New York contains enough information about the event and reactions from survivors that she shows she read the story. She makes personal connections to the topic, so we know why she chose it. And she included two really scary large photos.
2. In her 2/22 post, Alexis talks about an article from CNN about the moms of two Olympic gold medalists, and their experience in raising successful children. She combines information from the article with her own experiences, and then links to another article from the Today show about former Olympian Lindsey Vonn.
3. I never know what I'll be reading about when I click on Jason's blog. Men in tight shorts kicking one another? Hackers in masks? The best part about Jason's blog is that he's entertaining to read, no matter what he's writing about. The things he includes make his entries visually interesting (especially his captions), and he sometimes goes the extra mile by including links to additional stories.
4. Maxx has truly embraced the number one rule of writing, which is to have a point.
5. Itzel is another person who has a strong writing voice--she sounds like herself in her blog posts. I like that one of her links in this post was to a page of quotes about being different--went very well with the bullying article that she read!
6. Jon has a blogging explosion happening. Wow.
7. People really like lists. Anthony took this list that someone wrote about what is better--hot or cold weather--and answered the author, point by point.
8. Brandon writes about a lot of topics, but the one about the death of his friend was exceptionally sad.
9. Enough. About. Flappy. Bird. :)
10. Enough. About. Bieber. :)
