Let's look at some blogs and tweets!

We'll look at blogs and tweet streams in complementary pairs; since each medium was supposed to help tell the same story. First up will be a report on MSU men's basketball. These two blog posts dissect the team in two ways; first, there's an up-to-now season recap, and then a game review.

Nice use of hyperlinks that offer background not only in text, but in video as well. Really, whatever background you offer by hyperlink can be in any other medium, as long as the content helps tell the story or builds upon the story or offers relevant background.

Here's the related tweet stream, which follows the aforementioned game as the score waxes and wanes. That's a basic and effective way of tweeting a game, but think about other observances you can note: substitutions, whether the coach is going batshit crazy at any given moment, player reactions, crowd reactions, ect.

These blogs looked at the comeback of a long-gone sitcom actor from two perspectives; first, the broader view of where he AND his castmates are now; and then a post zeroing in on the one cast member's comeback. Look at the very nice use of hyperlinks to provide background here, allowing the blog to be much shorter in size than a print story offering comparable information.

Now, the tweets, which are about the actor's new TV show. Nice use here of telling moments and pulled quotes. Ideally, you can take a tweet stream, read them from first posted to most recently posted, and be able to make sense of how things unfolded. That you do here.

These blog posts offer a similar inside/outside perspective here. One post i about a specific band; the other is about a club performance featuring several different bands, including the one you profiled. Here, social media offers compelling -- and easy! -- hyperlink connections. Very nice tweet stream with the sort of observable moments I cited earlier as a good thing to look for and include.

There's a very nice personal voice here in these blogs about the TV show Glee. Still, I'll find a couple of flaws. First, make sure that your hyperlinks actually work and that they don't go bad. Nothing more frustrating to readers than a dead end to information, as opposed to a gateway.

Second, your original blog post ends with, (continued in blog 2). Totally unnecessary. A blog is an ongoing conversation, so of course you'll have more to say.

The related tweet stream takes an interesting perspective. Instead of following what's happening blow-by-blow, you offer instant analysis of what's happening. Not a bad use of a tweet stream during an event other people have access to.

Okay, like we did with videos, now please chime in on blogs and tweets. Gimme the good and the bad and what you learned and what you're still wondering about.

We'll look at more blog/tweet combos Wednesday.