The Weblog Review

Digital Kara comes across as some-what ordinary weblog but if you look closer you may find some hidden treasures.



When I started to read Digital Kara’s weblog I felt like I couldn’t really dive into her world and see what makes her tick. Some of her longer entries, particularly the entries on the September 11th attacks seemed more deeper than the others, letting us have insight on what Kara really thought about the world. But in some parts of Kara’s posts all of a sudden her attitude and language would change and she would begin to curse about certain things. I think this type of language makes Kara out to be less intelligent than she is. For example in the middle of a post she ads- ‘if you are a teenager and you went trick or treating you are a major league loser.’ I believe that if Kara uses more intelligent language and opens up more her weblog could become more addictive. After all, she is a talented writer as shown in her poetry. Found Kara’s poetry was open and gave me a better insight into who she is.



The design was different but basic. None of the color’s clashed but I would like to see Kara use her web design skills to make an even better layout.



Overall, Digital Kara’s weblog isn’t the sort of weblog where you are hooked by the first sentence. To make the most of this weblog you have to dig deeper behind the cursing and un-intelligent language to find a talented girl who writes some great poetry.

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I wasn’t too sure what I was going to expect to read about when I got to Limited Inc. Was it going to be about the clothing retailer? No. It wasn’t.



I found when reading Limited Inc that it is about the daily life of Roger. Yeah, yeah, you are probably saying so its like every other weblog out there right? No it isn’t. Roger is hands down one of the best writers that I have encountered while doing reviews for the site. He is very good at writing, and basically flaunts it with out really trying to.



The design is just a standard blog template with nothing to fancy changed. He doesn’t have an about me section, so I cheated. Most people when they start off writing a weblog; they talk about themselves quite a bit in the first posts. So I went to the beginning of the weblog’s existence and found out all I wanted to know about him.



However, something strange happened. I got hooked on the writing. I couldn’t stop reading. It was very good stuff. I guess that is the problem with most weblogs though; you read them from today to yesterday. Someone should create some code so that you read from yesterday to today if you are just starting off reading. So go all the way to the start and read from there, as you will enjoy it more.



Overall the site is really good. It is clean, crisp and very well written. It is just missing that little something extra to give it the 5.0, but trust me, it is really close to it.

Limited Inc

I really found nothing redeeming about this weblog. I clicked and clicked looking for any form of substantive writing and came up empty handed.



Naming the weblog “My Thoughts”, I believe is misleading. There is little (if any) original thought here.



The specifics: I might care about someone who I don’t know’s relationship / philosophical / political / family issues, but I have a REALLY REALLY hard time having my heart-strings plucked reading about someone who I don’t know’s COMPUTER problems.



Aesthetically, the site is cookie-cutter. The links are of sub-par quality.



Overall, the site is very boring. On no level does it engage me. And I’m a big computer geek too.



I think the author would do good to consider his audience and ask “what do people care about? why would someone want to read this?”.



fin.My Thoughts

Edgy. This weblog is edgy and genuine. The author is a troubled youth in a really bad situation.



Her parents beat her. It makes for good reading.



Reading her weblog made me extremely angry. It made me want to take a baseball bat and do some damage.



Aesthetically the layout is really lean and clean and arty. Low-fi. Messy. Raw. I like it. There could be more room between the lines of text – it seems like that was an artistic decision though. So whatever. I can deal.



The gray background too closely matched the default scrollbar gray. I’m really tired of that gray.



The language isin’t very articulate, but the uninhibited nature of her entries more than make up for it. She thinks, and she is very honest about her thoughts.



This one is a keeper.



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Killer Typos

The weblog turned out to be the most normal part of the site. There wasn’t too much to set it apart from the bulk of weblogs I have read. You would have to know the author to appreciate or understand much of what was going on. There is certainly nothing wrong with that, if your intended audience is people you know.



Other portions of the site were more interesting, including the anime artwork on each page, which I assume the author created. There was a “Words” section which contained some interesting prose and poetry. The “Quotes” section was interesting as well, and the photos rounded it all out.



Overall, the site was designed well enough and the navigation made sense, but I still don’t like my cursor being changed to something other than the arrow/hand combination I am used to seeing. Again, nothing set this weblog out from the crowd, but there wasn’t much that held it back either.soul-refrain.nu