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Irrelevant Press
My first impression when I first seen this blog was not a very good one.It looked like so many other pages I have seen as of late, very ordinary.. But as the saying goes, "You can't judge a book by it's cover". In the case of "Irrevelent Press", the above phrase rings very true.
At the top of the page in the right hand corner, is a photo of a teddy bear which apparently is supposed to be the author . The author's name is Roo...(aka. Roo Bear") The first thing I looked for was an "about" page which I realized at that time that there wasn't any. But then again, I really didn't expect to find one because the author is posing as a 7 eyed teddy bear.
The writing was very easy to read, and the page itself was very neatly laid out. The only problem I had, was the template looked like so many of the other templates you see , plain and boring.
On to the entries. Roo started his blog on February 11, 2004. Once I started reading, I basically had to pull myself away from the blog in order to do my review. It was obvious that Roo's entries were thought out before he started writing them. Roo talks about several topics that are very stimulating to the mind and will really make you think. Take for instance this particular entry.. Roo wrote....
So last night I had this not-so-amazing thought about the amount of buttons in our lives. I actually considered waking up this morning and counting how many buttons I push throughout the day for the sake of blogdom. Remotes, cars, computers, phones, the list goes on and on. It seems we have a fascination with pushing stuff. I think it all comes from the earliest moments of being a child when you get all these toys with things you can push, or toggle, or pull. I am reminded when I first got my car and my little 2-year old buddy sat on his mother's lap in the drivers seat to check it out, and the first thing he did was start pushing every button his little fingers could reach. Is there just something satisfyingly tactile about depressing a piece of plastic and making something "happen?" Truth be, you can NOT go through your day without pressing some kind of button. Try it! You wouldn't be making any phone calls, typing any emails, making any fruit smoothes - nothing. How devoid would your life be without using buttons?
Now this is something I have never thought of. But it gives us something to think about. I found each and every post very interesting and entertaining. On some of the entries, Roo adds a bit of humour. Roo's posts are very well written . What is interesting to some, may not be interesting to others. But I for one, truly enjoyed reading Roo's entries. I will also be book marking his site,.
To conclude my review, as I have stated, Roo's blog is a very interesting and entertaining read. Maybe he could just work on the template a little bit. Add some more design to it. He has several photo's added to his posts which give it a very nice touch. Work on the template a bit more, I am sure it would have the potential to get a rating of 5.
This site was reviewed on 2004-04-21 by darkangel_00.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
darkangel_00 felt that Irrelevant Press deserved a rating of 4.
Life-Log Perpetual, the Personal Diary of Christopher M. Canavan, is a new addition to the ever-growing number of weblogs out on the world wide web these days since his "maiden voyage post" on October 8.
The beauty of this website comes in Chris's writing. This is the kind of weblog I like to read. It's one that lets you into the author's life by him blogging about his typical day or what's going on in his life. It's not so personal that you can't understand half the things he's talking about because you don't know the background on everything involved. But it is personal enough to give the reader some type of attachment and that desire to come back and read the Life-Log Perpetual.
Chris is funny, witty, intelligent, opinionated, and straight forward - that's the impression that the writing in his weblog gives me, that is.
In his initial post, he advises readers to consider the rating of these posts to be of the XXX variety, which he does only to cover himself. I wouldn't consider anything yet posted to classify as XXX, but like Chris says, at least you've been warned that things could go in that direction.
The appearance is by no means revolting, but I think Chris must have something up his sleeve to improve the appearance of it. The weblog is in a typical solid-color-blocked Blogger template. It's not an ugly one, but it's an overused one. And i'm not sure exactly how the pictures on the top and side really relate to the rest of the weblog, but perhaps that's a mystery that all readers have yet to solve.
Even it it's early stages, this site intrigued me enough to add it to my list of daily links. I'll gladly come back and visit on a regular basis to see what other perils of wisdom Chris has to share with his newly developed weblog. I'd recommend anyone else to do the same.
This site was reviewed on 2002-10-22 by Wendy.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Wendy felt that Irrelevant Press deserved a rating of 4.5.
On Writing This Review:
I couldn't think of a better way to start it, then by taking a page out of this weblog, Life-Log Perpetual. Each entry starts out with On Such and Such a topic, which is actually some what useful. And though I read every post on this site, the posts that had titles that interested me more were read for better detail.
Chris posts about a variety of topics. He is still searching for his focus is my guess since the site just opened early October. He posts a question about weblogs of if weblogs need a certain amount of focus to hold a reader's attention. To which the answer is: it depends on who the reader is. But Chris's lack of a specific focus is not a bad thing. Everyday, hundreds of new weblogs are started, and most do not have a good beginning. However, Life-Log Perpetual is good in its infancy.
The posts themselves read almost like a good book. He tends to write in vague terms, but at the same time give a lot of detail. Its like when reading a 400 page novel, you know the book could have been written in 35 pages, but those other 365 pages are all the detail that makes it so much better.
The design of the site is a blogger template. And it is my least favorite. Why is it my least favorite? I don't know. I just don't like it. Too many people use it, and it seems to big and bulky for a site. However, to Chris's credit, he did customize it a little with adding some images. This makes it a little easier to bear, but still, this reviewer still does not like the template.
Very few weblogs have actually gotten my attention since creating TWR. Even fewer have kept it. I hope that Life-Log Perpetual will be able to keep my attention, as it has definitely gotten my attention.
This site was reviewed on 2002-10-22 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Brent felt that Irrelevant Press deserved a rating of 4.5.
3 reviewers gave Irrelevant Press an average rating of 4.3333
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