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The Mediaburn Radio Weblog
My first impression on entering Mediaburn was that although the site looked clean and easy on the eye, it also looked like every other Radio UserLand weblog out there. But the simple design still looked good enough to make me want to stay a while and look around.
The description given on the Mediaburn site says, "Mediaburn is a free-form, independent resource for news, information, music and the arts." It certainly was free-form. The news doesn't focus on one subject, such as technology. Instead, the links and short posts varied from being about politics, to weblogs to films/movies, either chosen by the site director or sent in by readers. Although I liked this variety it did mean that Mediaburn couldn't be used as a source alone to gather your daily news. However, it is obviously already being taken seriously as one source of news due to the option to translate the site into various languages.
I felt that the layout and navigation were not as effective as they could be. The archives were difficult to navigate because you could only go back one month at a time, and then you could only go through each month one day at a time, which became hard work and often caused me to give up looking for a particular day's news. The site could do with a little more organisation, such as sorting the news into fields.
From the positive comments of current Mediaburn users, and the evidence that the site has grown since it began, such as the increased frequencey of entries, I think that this weblog is worth keeping an eye on, as it looks set to become a prominent site in the future.
This site was reviewed on 2003-02-17 by Bluiser.
They felt this site belonged in the News/Links category.
Bluiser felt that The Mediaburn Radio Weblog deserved a rating of 3.5.
I must say that my curiousity was definitely piqued when I saw the title for this weblog. I half-expected to be bombarded with ads and pop-ups about CD's and video games when I loaded up the site. Much to my surprise, however, I was presented with a clean and simple front page that was pleasing to the eye.
The Mediaburn Radio Weblog is a companion to the online magazine at http://www.mediaburn.net. Consequently, the links and news on the weblog revolve around the same topics as the magazine does - namely "news, information, music, and the arts". However, the weblog itself is primarily news and information about music and the arts, and technology. In fact, many of the news stories did focus on technology, such as the recent acquirement of blogger.com by Google. There are occasional sparse comments by the author, but the weblog is primarily a collection of links to different articles, albeit interesting articles. For example, the blog's February 3, 2003 entry had a link to a site which tracks the national debt (which unfortunately is over 6 trillion dollars as of 2 minutes ago).
I couldn't seem to find any information about the author, or perhaps authors, of this weblog. Gary Santoro appears to be the sole commentator of the blog and director of the magazine. I had to dig through many of the entries to find some of Gary's comments, and I was disgruntled by the fact that many of his comments were short and unrevealing. Although this is primarily a news and links site, it is nevertheless a weblog, and the author's insight and feelings are a key element in blogging.
The Mediaburn Radio weblog is essentially a collection of various links, some interesting and some not. The blog doesn't have a specific target group - it's content ranges from everything to current events to technology. If you're a fan of mediaburn.net, then I recommend you visit the blog. Otherwise, you can find most of the information on the blog on the pages of Yahoo.com and CNN.
This site was reviewed on 2003-02-17 by brandon.
They felt this site belonged in the News/Links category.
brandon felt that The Mediaburn Radio Weblog deserved a rating of 3.
2 reviewers gave The Mediaburn Radio Weblog an average rating of 3.2500
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