The Metro Atlanta Area

Atlanta is the capitol and most populous city in the state of Georgia. Due to its’ mild climate, great location, easy transportation, and many leisure activities; people from all over the nation, as well as immigrants from other countries, have flocked to this beautiful city.

“Drive a Faster Car” is a blog about Atlanta and describing its’ life from culture, entertainment, music and independent art. This blog focuses not only on Atlanta but the metro Atlanta area as well. This blog, however, is different from other blogs I’ve read in that it seems to be a published blog. Like a magazine, this blog has an editor-in-chief, several contributing writers, and an intern. This website also takes submissions of articles, reviews, artwork and photographs that people would like to contribute for publication. Rather than having one writer and one opinion, “Drive a Faster Car” has multiple writers with multiple opinions, as well as the people’s opinions.

With well over 5 million people in the Atlanta area, the writers try to engage a diversity of readers. The writers post announcements of events that may be occurring nearby, from the Red Bull Soapbox Derby at Piedmont Park which is great for families to attend to Fabolous at Greenbriar Mall which young adults or teens would love. They also write about music artists of interest just to share a little something about themselves and maybe people may take liking to. The blog also includes links to other websites to find information about museums, restaurants, or even politics.

The writers for this blog are very informative and give a lot of information to let their readers know what is going on in Atlanta. There are many descriptive explanations as to explain when and where certain events are happening; for example, the posting on which roads were shutdown for the soapbox race. Multimedia used include pictures/posters, videos, and many sources like links and “you may also like” such links for additional information or alternatives for information.

This blog was created for the people in Atlanta to have somewhere to go to find information on about current events happening or where to find specific things in the Atlanta area. Like discussed in class, the local news or the “Atlanta Journal Constitution” do talk about events and news in Atlanta but also focus on many other topics that do not even concern Georgia. This blog helps to break that habit and focus primarily on metro Atlanta. The writers hope to accomplish a place for citizens living in the area to use the website as a nice resource.

Posted by: Sarah Chang