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Beijing Olympic Games is an important international event that is of interest all over the world. It is also famous for some recent political problems in China such as Tibet crisis, Beijing boycott movement, Olympic Torch relay. Most of the national and international online expressions, including blogs have published news related to this event. Figures from Google indicate that 569,000 results refer to the term “Beijing Olympic blog”. The following blog contributes an angle on the Beijing Olympic Games.

1.      Writing style

As mentioned in the subtitle, the blog is an “unofficial look at China and the Beijing Olympic Games”, written by Bob, from the UK. It has a journalism style. The blog engages readers by some descriptive headlines. “Can the Olympic knock down the Great Firewall?” , “Olympic Torch will avoid Terminal disaster” , for instance. Effective anecdotes and colours (“the Great Firewall”, “the Blade Runner”) are also the aspects that make this blog intriguing. The third attracting issue is that the writer applies the inverted pyramid in approaching information and core ideas are provided to appeal to readers at the first stage. The combination of articles, videos and snapshot brings much effect and helps the reader look at the Beijing Olympic Games from a large range of sources.

 However, the blog is sometimes boring for lack of humour, passion and flexible writing style. Blogs are thought to be online diaries, so readers desire to exploit both informative details and private opinions or feeling from the author, not only a notice. One of the defects of this blog is the author is always loyal to his objective information, that his style becomes down.