Grand Theft Blogger. The title borders on something between “catchy” and “stupid”, but this blog is supposedly about video games, so I can let it go.
This blog is written by Jessie Lawrence, a 27 year old guy from Fremont, California. And his blog isn’t bad, but it isn’t great either. So let’s talk about the ‘why’ question.
The design is blogger. The header graphic is custom, which is nice; but the content is what seems to be lacking. Jessie doesn’t have any links to his archive pages from what I could tell, so I could only read his most recent posts. Some talked about his family, a few about gaming and the rest was personal opinion stuff. He has moments of comedy, but they are scarce.
Jessie talks about the death of his friend Angelo quite a bit; he was shot and no one has found the killer. Sad stuff. But the thing that is great about Jessie’s posts is that they are usually short and sweet. He doesn’t try to bog you down; he just writes what he has to say and nothing more. Done Deal.
I gave Grand Theft Blogger a 3.25 because of the lack of accessible content; also, it is marketed as being a blog about gaming, but I couldn’t be totally convinced of that based on what I had to read. He’s a good writer and I see great potential for this blog…but the things that I would like to see just aren’t there yet. Grand Theft Blogger