I would agree with the statement"the features of the Web that have become so standardized we no longer think of them as new or different(Brunett, R.,Marshal, P.D.)" because it's true I can not think of a single web page that doesn't have the same basic icons. Sure the way they look may have changed or become more inventive but they still serve the same basic purpose they work as a link to get you to another page. The other element that is very obvious to me is the magazine layout which can also be likened to that of a news paper. It resembles magazines because of the bright colors and fonts used, it also has sections such as fashion, horoscopes, and celeberty gosip. On the other hand it is like a news paper because it has auto adds, job searches, and sports sections, as well as the latest breaking stories for today which is also what it has in common with the news broadcasts from t.v. The yahoo site also has elements from gossip t.v. shows such as entertainment tonight and tmz because it has popculture stories like the ones on there today about Selena Gomez, Merideth Vieira, and Marilyn Manson. I think the thing that makes yahoo's site as well as the sites of so many other companies msn and iwon to name a couple is that they have all these elments combined into one convienent place. I do not have anything to contrast because I agree with them that things are the same just presented in a more polished form than days of old!Yahoo!
Brunett, R., Marshal, P. D. Web theory: an introduction.81-83
I like your observation about convenience but I gotta know more about what it means that yahoo! selects what it thinks is important on its homepage. How is this rhetorical?
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