On first view, Monadology is somewhat difficult to navigate – the main body of the blog is set into far too small a space, and the menus which pop-up are extremely fiddly, not to mention pretty unreadable without bumping up my browser’s font setting. It made me a little frustrated, which isn’t ideal as a first impression.
I didn’t make it through all 90 points of “What is a monad” either, I’m afraid, but managed to make out (I think) that Monadology.net where the blog is hosted is a collective of people who went to college together? The posts vary from personal memories to CSS positioning, and a lot of cultural references inbetween. I’ve termed it personal for that reason, as you could be reading a review of a film one moment, then the next have a description of some of the author’s childhood memories.
The Movable Type template used on this blog really doesn’t suit the purpose – I’d love to see it laid out a little more fucnctionally, as there are some interesting links to other sites and photo galleries that just get lost in the translation.
Overall, I found the design issues to be the main problem, and it really hindered my experience. There are lots of archives, and no doubt there are many gems, but having to spend several minutes finding them was too trying.