The Weblog Review

The first thing I noticed after the shocking pink background was that Morrie Schwartz had misspelled “twenty” in the quote on the header. Or someone else did and blamed it on poor Morrie.



All of the regular angst of a normal teen blog, but the reading is easy, and no threats of suicide or matricide. As a mother, it helps to read these blogs, since my own child is now 15…and a half.

I liked the entries about driving, and school grades. I hope she made better than a “C” in Biology.



I didn’t mind the shocking pink background as it somehow seemed fitting for a teenaged girl. Her external links are mainly to other teen sites, and suit the structure of her own site. Especially good is the link to her website at Angelfire. At that site, I laughed hard at the “Interview with Myself” entry. Included at that site are some original drawings and photographs and some other links that are of interest.



All in all an interesting site to visit, with decent entries in her weblog and a site that carries itself well. Kristen Joy seems to be a perfectly normal teenaged girl, with all the worries and joys a teenaged girl should have.

Kristen Joy’s Mind Expansion

When I saw that the writer of this weblog is a 16-year-old girl, the first thing I thought was “Oh no, another morbid creature who thinks she has all the answers.” I was happily surprised to find out that, although a lot of her posts deal with depression, sadness and teen angst, she also has a sense of humor, well thought out opinions on a variety of topics and a strong sense of who she is — or who she’s trying to be.



Interspersed among her posts are her original poems, and she’s quite talented. There’s a link to her personal web site, which not only has lists of her likes and dislikes, but samples of her art, photography and more, including a “Pay It Forward” page.



Her layout is simple and easy to navigate, which added to the surprisingly good experience I had at this site.



I think this weblog will appeal mostly to teen-age girls, but it wouldn’t hurt anyone else to stop by and have a look to remember what it was like to be 16. It’s simply a good read, no matter what your age.Kristen Joy’s Mind Expansion

This weblog took me a while to figure out what exactly was going on. I read every article, one by one, and still was confused. Granted, every article for the most part was about the new war on terror, but I couldn’t figure out the purpose of the weblog other than to post news and what not.



So after reading everything, I look around the site for something else, which there isn’t. I was disappointed in the fact that there were no other pages than the weblog. I really wanted an about type page to be honest. Even the first post left me clueless. I don’t know if it was because of an archive problem or if it just started as if it had been going on for a while.



The posts about the news are very interesting. A lot of political views are thrown into the mix, which makes it even more interesting.



This confused me at first, but finally I realized what was going on. The weblog is a very good read if you are looking for news that isn’t quite so mediaized.

westerby report

When I first reached this weblog I immediately thought the design was very different and that the writer of this weblog sounded like an interesting person.



To start off with Tavie is talking about moving her site to the new domain which is rather boring but as you read on you find Tavie has an interesting outlook on life as a college student in New York. Her plan to buy fluffy slippers to wear at work made me giggle and I believe that her Profile/Biography is the most interesting one I have ever read. It doesn’t bore you, and is just long enough so we get an idea about this girl with the unusual name. Tavie explains things in an interesting way such as-“My feet feel like the snow you scrape off tv-dinner boxes.”



The design uses a lot of green, which makes it unusual. The text links to the left are a bit small and the background image makes it hard to read some of the text towards the right side.



Overall, I think Tavie’s blog is worth checking out, even if just for Tavie’s Biography. Her posts are fun and amusing. The only thing I was disappointed in was the comments I mentioned above about the layout.tavie.com

I was impressed at how quickly this blog page loaded. At first impression I thought it would be about a teenage girl, with short posts but good HTML skills.



The posts in this blog, were mostly short and I didn’t understand what the writer was talking about half the time. The writer of this blog is a 20-year-old woman who is un-employed. It took me ages to find her profile as the only link to it was in one of her posts. I think this blog lacks information and links. I also didn’t know her favourite band called Mathew Good band. I guess being an Australian and not knowing any of the bands the writer talked about bored me. She often talked about the Jerry Springer show and celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston.



The design of this blog was fantastic! It was really neat and tidy and the images loaded very quickly. It has a fresh, autumn look about it, which is really nice.



Basically I don’t recommend this blog if you do not have an interest in the celebrities that the writer does. She doesn’t really reveal much about herself or her life but as I said if you are a fan of Mathew Good Band or any of the other things she is interested you may find this blog more interesting.

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