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Yaser.org - To die, to sleep...no more
I immediately felt peaceful when I came to this site due to the lovely picture of a country road! I liked the simple but effective effect it had on eyes and how easy it was to see what this site was offering.
There are some lovely photos on this site, this person has a keen eye for a good picture. I liked it as it broke up the entries and some of the pictures were breath taking. There are also a fair amount of links placed in the entries for other sites or items of interest. The content is a mixture of personal information and entries that are of interest to the author. It, in my opinion, makes a good mix of things to read. The entries give you an insight into Yasers mind, which is interesting if you are as nosey as me. You get a sense of Yasers passion for his reading and his writing. You also get to hear why it is that Yaser finds it so hard to sleep! You may also find what it is that he thinks he is missing!
I liked the design as it was nice and simple. I liked the clean white background, and the way that the text was boxed for easy reading. All the links are neatly packed away in the side bar. Everything has its own place, and I liked that. I could not see that anyone could get lost here!
It is a lovely clean cut and easy to use site. I liked the fact that when you click through the archives, you are told that you are browsing archives so that you do not get lost. I like easy to use and clean cut sites, so I am a fan of this design. I also liked the mixture of personal and topical entries, and especially enjoyed some of the photos.
This is a good read. I liked the mixture of content, the photos, the personal stories, the links to other site of interest to Yaser. I liked the added benefit of the book reviews. I like the way that Yasers passion about both reading and his own writing come across in this site. I enjoyed my visit there. The photos alone are worth a visit.
This site was reviewed on 2003-09-09 by kacroon.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
kacroon felt that Yaser.org - To die, to sleep...no more deserved a rating of 4.
Yaser, with "To die, to sleep... no more", has surely one of the most pretentious taglines I have come across in quite a while. In fact, if that was all I had to go on, I wouldn't read much of the site, especially as the page's design is substantially broken in Netscape (come on people! It isn't hard to get cross-compatible sites up these days!).
Fortunately, on loading the site, I was greeted with a very welcoming and attractively green masthead, an understated aesthetic that works particularly well under Internet Explorer, and generally a site packed with wonderful content.
Yaser is a student at Toronto University; that's as much personal information as we are given, which is a shame but hardly a crime, and considering how hazardous it can be to have a public website if you're islamic (at least in the current political climate), perhaps a good idea. Yaser, though, is certainly a talented photographer.
Photography is becoming the dominant thread running through the blog. It wasn't always this way - in previous months Yaser discussed the problems of being a Muslim during the war with Iraq. Before the world was taken over by the Bush war machine and the theological shellshock such actions brought with it, the writer was happy enough to spend a lot of time posting comments and opinions about university life.
For a while, from the beginning of the site's archives in May '02, Yaser wrote about just about everything, and such lack of focus can be a site's undoing. Posts varied from week to week, some concerned solely with a particular topic, only for it to be discarded after a few entries; for example, the World Cup in Japan and South Korea attracts some attention, but aside from the odd comment on one or two exceptional results (and a closer look at Saudi Arabia's embarrassing run of form), there is no reason to read this site's coverage over any other's, unless you happen to be a close friend.
That Yaser's site looks to be gaining a focus (photography, with photos as blog entries; occasionally complete series of them) is why I think it is worth coming back to. There are too many blogs that lack direction, content to provide content only of interest to friends and an immediate, pre-existing community; now it serves a bigger purpose, a theme that makes the whole more interesting.
This site was reviewed on 2003-09-09 by chrisw.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
chrisw felt that Yaser.org - To die, to sleep...no more deserved a rating of 3.5.
2 reviewers gave Yaser.org - To die, to sleep...no more an average rating of 3.7500
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