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Will's Delirium
Upon entering Will's Delirium, I am greeted with the startling whispered message: "It's gonna be okay" I sure hope he's telling the truth! There is a black background with a stylized graphic of our author. The newest entry is displayed to the right. And there is virtually nothing else on this page. No links, no frills, no errors... well, we'll see about the errors later. The only other thing on the page is a cryptic countdown to "Freedom". 53 days and counting at the time of my review. This blog is the epitome of minimalism. A Zen kind of blog if you will.
I began to read the entries beginning with the present. And what emerged as I continued was a deeply introspective young man of a philosophical bent. His entries are intensely honest and very personal. He asks himself big questions and sometimes arrives at answers, but just as often does not. Frankly, this is the closest thing to a truly personal and private journal that I have thus far read for Weblog Review. These entries are more like the things I write in my really real journal, not my blog. In this respect our author is particularly interesting to me.
The writing style is clear and understandable. No obtuse references to nebulous things here. There is no "About Me" page, I found by reading that the author is in college and also works. But these aspects of himself are kept way in the background in the entries I read.
I would have read more but the rather awkward navigation began to get tedious, and finally started to balk. When I clicked on an archive date, the screen went white and it took up to a minute to reload the archive list. After about the 12th time trying to get back there, I gave it up.
The archives go back to February of 2001. That is quite a body of work. I would suggest an easier navigation function for those interested in reading more than just the most recent posts. In the older archived entries there are many graphics that no longer work, which may or may not matter to the content of the entry. I just mention it because there were so many of them.
I might check back in with this blog from time to time, to see how the author is doing in finding answers to Life the Universe and Everything. He certainly is asking all the hard questions.
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-31 by yetzirah.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
yetzirah felt that Will's Delirium deserved a rating of 4.
Will's Delirium is the on-line journal (thoughts, rants and other posts of good, accurate writing) of someone named Will. We cannot really know anything other than this because there is no information on the author. I could find no "about" links on his site and only by reading the archives (which date back to 2001), did I manage to find out that Will may be a teenager or a man in his early twenties. Whatever the case, he studies (as he usually refers to "homework" in his posts), other than this, I simply cannot say.
The template is black with a table in the middle; you can scroll to the posts that show up on his main page. To the left of the table, there's a photo of Will (maybe retouched with one of Adobe Photoshop's filters). If you scroll down to the end of the post section, you'll find the sole link on Will's page is to his archives. The template could use a little more work, it's too middle-oriented.
Will's writing is in-depth. He constantly asks questions about himself and you get the feeling he's still trying to discover who he is or can be. The posts are honest and many of them deal with what goes on inside his head. They make for good reading if you enjoy discovering a person's soul, if you enjoy "lighter" blogs or blogs of a more amusing nature, then this is one blog you wouldn't want to visit.
Personally, I enjoy this type of writing. I like reading blogs where people pose questions and try to find answers. It makes the reader feel like he or she is part of the author's growth process.
I give this blog a 3.5 because of the lack of information on the author and the lack of links. I think it detracts from the blog, making it look stale. Most blog readers are a curious bunch, and most crave extra information. Even if you wish to remain anonymous, there are ways to make your blog more appealing. Were it not for this, I would have rated it higher.
This site was reviewed on 2004-07-31 by answer-seeking gal.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
answer-seeking gal felt that Will's Delirium deserved a rating of 3.5.
2 reviewers gave Will's Delirium an average rating of 3.7500
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