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When I saw the pink my first thought was “cute,” in a bubble gum sort of way (note the irony). The next thing I searched for was some kind of “about me” page so I might get a better feel of whom the author really is. Not finding what I was looking for I dive right into the eldest of archives. I cross my fingers and hope this blog isn’t some cheesy teen blog I got suckered into reviewing.
Much to my surprise, Stephanie is a wonderful writer. She ventured to blogger from a place that was once my home, open diary. Her titles are witty thus making it quite easy to find the extremely interesting of the entries. I noticed, however, that even when I wanted to skim I ended up reading the whole thing. Her older entries mirror the thoughts of a teenage girl. She quite possibly writes the same way she would talk if she were talking to a room full of friends. This actually makes the reader feel like a good friend, or long lost friend. She has her little quirks, and saying’s she writes quite often. She writes entries in latin. Mentions an awful lot of people no one else knows about. Chats online with friends she goes to school with. Overall, she reminds me of myself at her age. While there’s a lot of entries that focus mainly on the daily going-on’s in her life, there are the occasional rants that get right down to what she really believes in.
The design is very functional. Considering the blog is hosted by blogspot, the archives all seemed to work, and even links in entries from a year ago still work. The text may be a little hard to read because it is a little small. Older entries kind of run together in large paragraphs making it, at times, hard to follow. The design is simple, but where it lacks in flare, it makes up for in quality.
The author has a “comment” area, but the comments are in a tagboard-like setting. No real way to comment on individual entries. She links to a lot of sites that I’m familiar with, and she writes a bit of fiction. If you actually look around there are photos to view, and many interesting external links to check out.
I couldn’t help but feel utterly sorry for her after reading the initial post about a restarting computer. My desire to help kicked in and I offered a bit of help... or tried to at least. For the most part I enjoyed reading this blog. Its main attraction might be for those closest to her, real life friends who know of the blog’s existence, or even reader’s that fall closer to her age range. All in all, the blog is quite enjoyable. It’s filled with humor and amazing wit. Makes me wish I had a chance to relive high school one more time (but only for a short time).
This site was reviewed on 2003-08-19 by firefly.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
firefly felt that tangents deserved a rating of 4.
I started from the very beginning of existence of “tangents” to find out what it was all about. Turns out, the weblog used to be hosted by some place called “teen open diary” before Stephanie (that’s our author) switched over to Blogger, which is where it’s hosted now.
No matter where I visited in the nearly year’s worth of archives, one thing remained the same – the audience Stephanie continues writing for is an audience that not only knows her online, but in person, too.
The only thing to this site is the weblog. There’s no information to fill you in on who you’re reading about unless you go through and read all of the archives, and even then, you’re still left with entirely too many unanswered questions to feel like you really know anything about the person you’re reading about. To me, I found that a bit disappointing.
The layout of the site is a plus. The format is very simple, and with the lack of any additional part of the site, it’s naturally easy to navigate. It features black text on a white background, with a bright pinkish color used for the hyperlinks scattered throughout. The site is very pleasing on the eye, and shows that sometimes less is, in fact, more.
The same can’t be said for the actual weblog, though. There’s no concept at all of the word “less”. Most posts are a good five or six paragraphs long, but are often shoved into one paragraph, with lots of “……” and random words in bold type every now and then.
The weblog was hard to actually get into. Stephanie would share a story that I could nearly relate to, and then follow it up with an entire conversation transcript from AOL or a recount of her day, which included too many personal tidbits for me to really grasp what she was talking about.
I’m sure those that know Stephanie or those that are involved in her life would love coming back to visit here. For the average weblog reader, who’s never met Stephanie and who never will, this type of writing is a tad hard to follow.
This site was reviewed on 2003-08-18 by Wendy.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Wendy felt that tangents deserved a rating of 2.
2 reviewers gave tangents an average rating of 3.0000
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