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Is there a general reaction when you see that someone is on a blogspot blog? For me, personally, yes. It’s not necessarily that I assume that the writing is bad, or that I’ll find myself utterly bored with the content of the site, it’s just a matter of knowing that anyone and anything can sign up for a blog on blogspot, and you have to wonder the kind of people who do. However, it seems that the blogs that sign up for a review are different than the average blogger. When you first come to Edna’s blog you see a sketch of the author, or the assumption is that it is the author. It’s always nice to know who you’re reading about, whether it be from an about me page, or from a picture.

Whether it is from my own secret obsession with England and its neighboring countries, or the fact that this author is humorous in her strangely foreign way, I found myself taken by the first entry I read (June 2). You get the feeling that you’ve somehow been transported into a book… particularly Bridget Jones’s Diary, which I loved and adored. The even more amazing thing is that there’s a link to another blog that contains works of fiction by the author. For the average American reader, you might find some of the phrases a little difficult to understand, and you might even find yourself reading parts two and three times just to understand, but the good thing is that even if you do end up doing that it doesn’t take away from the entry. You’re still very absorbed into the daily life of Edna.

Edna has this amazing way of making moments in life, which are easily overlooked, appears to be beautiful and tragic. It’s like reading a novel, truly, and finding yourself completely absorbed within the pages. You feel the tragedy of life when she speaks of her friend with cancer (May 29) or when IE dies on you (November 19) which we have all experienced. And you relish in her joy when she talks about the simple meanings behind small words. This blog seems to be her part of the net, and I’m very glad I got a chance to share in that.

The design is simple, but it works. There is a nice list of books that seem interesting enough for me to want to pick up and run to the bookstore and find some way to buy yet more books that I truly don’t need. Especially for an adult who reads the Lemony Snicket series. As with most other blogspot blogs the archives have a fickleness to them, sometimes they show, sometimes they don’t. You can learn more about the author through links to other blogs. But I have a feeling you get your best feel for Edna in her entries and her writings.

Overall, this site is a truly wonderful read. You will find yourself getting lost in her life as though it were some kind of story created only for you. I’d recommend this blog for a general audience, and allow you to experience things through her.

Editors Note:
Name of the site was just the url of the site before and was changed to what appears to be the title of the weblog itself.Lighters, Lipstick and Tampax

When it comes to video games, I’m old school Nintendo all the way – give me my Super Mario Brothers before they were in 3D and Duck Hunt where you always wanted to gun down that stupid hunting dog. I’ve played a small share of Playstation 2, and have heard the talk of all the cool features of the different new gaming units, and the great new perks of the latest and greatest games – that happens when you work for a major electronics retailer. But I couldn’t ever put together a weblog devoted strictly to video games.

“What’s your game?” comes to us from Will, and Will’s on top of things when it comes to video games. Probably the key factor in making people trust his opinion and continue to come back is that Will’s loves his video games. Clearly, they play a big part in Will’s free time, and who better to take video game advice and ideas from then someone like that?

Being someone that’s not right on top of the video game scene, I found myself sometimes clueless on various abbreviations that were used: IGI2 and PVP to name a couple. I wasn’t overly bothered by this, and instead just looked over the unknown acronyms and read what I did know. Hardcore gamers, or even those who play more than I do, will probably pick up on these right away and read them just as if they were every day language.

The layout of the site isn’t anything special. It’s a very slightly modified version of one of the standard Movable Type templates. With a site like this that’s main focus is video games and the liking, the layout doesn’t really matter. The text is readable and the colors are tolerable.

The creator of “What’s Your Game?” is Will. From the bottom of the main page, you learn some general information that even further “validates” his credibility of keeping a website such as this one. He’s a technical editor at Maximum PC magazine, where he keeps up “with the current happenings in 3D acceleration tech, games, operating systems, and networking gear”.

Will doesn’t go into great depth about the specifics of the various video games he plays, which cover PC games, Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube, and basically any other type of game he can get his hands on. He just touches the main information, and gives his overall opinion of what he’s been playing as of late. He throws out a few of the pros and cons out into his overview of particular games, and other times you can tell just how good the game is by how much Will lets us know he’s playing it.

It might sound like this was the wrong type of a weblog for someone that’s not up on the latest in video games to review, or even to stop by and read, but that’s not true. Will is doing a fine job. He doesn’t expect all of his readers to be nearly obsessed with video games, but he does like telling those who are the finer points of the games he’s been playing. This weblog is definitely worth anyone’s time that has the slightest interest in video games.
What’s your game?

The first thing you’ll notice upon entering this site is a sexy picture of an anime character with sassy shoes and a perfect body. Mmmmmmmm. But the anime girl isn’t the only eye-candy you’ll find here. The site layout is anything but boring, and there are plenty of good pictures to look at, including some of the blogger herself.

Billie, the teen author, started the site as a `Friendship site’, and it turned into a place for fans of the Dark Angel television series to visit, and finally, has become a blog. I could only find entries dated from March 10, 2003-current. Billie writes about what goes on in her life, and entries seem to cover the typical emotions of a teenager. She used to live in New Zealand, and is Chinese. I get the impression that she is currently living in Hong Kong, but blog entries don’t make her whereabouts entirely clear.

The blog part of this site is on the left, and you can scroll down to read all of the existing entries, and to see what her mood is and who she is talking and listening to. On the right just above the anime girl are links to her guestbook, a little `about’ page, her original home page, and her links page.

This is a neat-looking blog, but seems to be written more for a group of the author’s friends than random visitors. Of course, you can always check it out just to admire the anime girl if teen blogging is not your thing. Dark Angel

Dearie Me! I thoroughly enjoyed this blog. The standard blogger template is nothing to get excited about, to be sure. It is a very simple layout, with no pictures or links to get in the way of the entries. This blog is all about the writing. And what superb writing it is.

The blog is subtitled `Diary of a divorce’, and does focus at times on the author and his family situation. However, entry subjects range from noisy co-workers to…how should I say this…
snotlets in the loo (an entry that made me laugh out loud).

Another entry about childhood memories and fire extinguishers was well-crafted and highly entertaining. In fact, a good deal of the entries in this blog are entertaining. Some entries are heart-wrenching, though, and the author isn’t afraid to put his uncomfortably painful feelings into prose.

There is no `About’ page, and although entries are peppered with interesting tidbits about the author, I would like to see a section with a bit of a biography. A picture of the author or his children would be nice to see as well. It’s always interesting to put a face with someone’s words.

Bottom line: An engrossing, entertaining, well-written blog. I plan to bookmark it and return regularly.Dearie Me

The first entry you read on a weblog determines whether you’ll read on or quickly jump to the sidebar for some random links to save you from imminent boredom. This was not the case in ‘Next-to-the Last Song’; a desirable weblog devised by a chap named Jason Killingworth. The first entry made me laugh inside.. I rarely do that when I read some blogs. His attempt at describing his feelings for waking up late for work using an elongated ‘metaphor’ is highly amusing and somewhat questions his sanity..

Following entries are consistently amusing, but not as deliberate as I’ve seen in some weblogs. The font size is a bit small but compliments the tidy & neutral layout. Checked an archive (discovered it to be in a completely different layout to the index), and indulged in some of the entries dating back to 2001. Many of them honest & equally delicious in substance and knowledge. The archives also appeared in a different window which, in a way, made it easier to navigate & physically separated the past from the present. However there weren’t any commenting capabilities on these pages. Its always the author’s discretion as to whether they feel it necessary to have commenting throughout their blog, but I personally feel that any opportunties for interactivity for your visitors should be taken.

I was hoping to discover the basics and background of Jason, but to my dismay, there were no leads, except for a few links to his published works elsewhere on the net; being a variety of enchanting (& obviously popular) prose. Not surprising, as his literary skills are intensely unique & satisfying.

Suggestions in hand, the main index image background should be the same colour as the page background.. I always find things like that somewhat unnerving. I also couldn’t find any archives for 2003. Was there a specific reason, or am I blind? Additionally, some more general information about the author would be truly appreciated. Although reading through the blog would illustrate a partially detailed picture, you need a starting block to fill in the simple gaps.Next-to-Last Song