Month: January 1970

Year of Our City was well-presented

piece of work, with a cool robot

graphic to welcome you to the page.

The stimulsting visual presentation

was backed up by a detailed weblog,

full of rich content.



The author wrote his entries well,

telling amusing tales of his life at

work, his misadventures into the

ladie’s room, and other cynically

charged anecdotes. By no means

did he hold back his opinions, which

gave the weblog some flavor; just be

warned if you are offended by strong

language.



I particularily enjoyed his venting

about teenage girls pimping

themselves on the internet with their

Amazon.com wish lists, and the

“consumerism cancer” such idolatry

represents.



There were no links to other areas of

the web site, so I was left feeling a

little abandoned. Some info about

the author or some other information

would have been a good compliment

to a good weblog.



Year of Our City (not sure why it is

called that) is definitely a good read.





Year of Our City

The design is smurfy; I’m a big fan of the miniature ‘about me’ box on the front page. I think it’s important to give your visitors an idea of about whom they’re reading.



The content of the blog was aimed squarely at one slice of the population: the author’s friends.

To an outsider, the blog is nothing but a summary of her day, complete with talk about people we don’t know at places we’ve never been. Some people solve this problem by including a page where they list the “cast” so to speak: a list and short description of their friends.



The writing, in and of itself, (aside from some minor spelling errors, but I’m not going to get THAT nitpicky) is solid. The summaries, while somewhat alienating to strangers, are in fact interesting enough to read through, and coherent and fluid enough to make sense.



All in all, ‘Single File Line’ is a very good effort, and quite worthy of the time I spent there.

Single File Line

The design at Mental Masturbation was somewhat trite, but clean and interesting. Everything worked, which is a plus, and the site was quite easy to navigate.



The writing was impressive. Interesting commentary peppered with nifty links: everything a growing blog reader needs.



A lot of blogs tend to focus heavily on their friends as an audience, and if this is their intention, more power to them. This site does lean a bit toward that direction, but what struck me is how the author can be so personal, yet simultaneously inviting.



I definitely enjoyed by time at Mental Masturbation, and I intend to return quite regularly. I humbly suggest the same to others, as it’s a fine use of time.

/mental.masturbation

If only I knew the language Ollo.net

was written in, I might be able to give

it a much better review. My best

guess is that the language is Dutch,

but I may be wrong. Nevertheless,

the web site was able to convey it’s

purpose and allowed me to navigate

easily–something that many, many

web sites in English fail to do.



The site was primarily composed of

a variety of links, organized by a

variety of subjects. I looked through

some of the links and was pleased

to find them current, interesting, and

not broken.



It took a little guesswork, but I

eventually found the weblog area of

the page. It appeared to be a group

style log, with two authors making

daily contributions. Naturally, I had

no idea what they said.



The design of the site was sharp,

with a nice green color scheme. As I

said before, the site was easy to

navigate and made sense using

visual clues rather than words. A

definite plus for those who don’t

know the language.



Certainly Ollo.net is worth a look.

Perhaps a reviewer who knows the

language can do the site more

justice than I.



Ollo.net

Coax me is an above average weblog that combines interesting content with a nice, clean design aesthetic.



Well, that’s the intro done with. Though nothing here really sets this site out from its peers, the smooth interface makes a welcome change from having to search long and hard for any form of navigation (although the writer refers to the various ‘cliques’ to which he belongs as ‘cliches’; most likely a simple oversight unless it is spot-on humour).



The content is good and well balanced, and will certainly keep the reader entertained and interested as they delve deeper into the site, but once again you get the feeling that something is missing. It might be me just having ‘one of those spells’, but I think this site needs something. Unfortunately for everyone concerned, and especially myself, I can’t put my finger on the deficiency.



Maybe it’s a smoother writing style or more mature and seasoned outlook that I’m looking for; if that’s the case then I’ll return here in a few months because this is where I’m more likely to find it than a lot of other places.coaxme