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With a name like the saucyspot I was expecting something naughty, instead I found something nice. Saucyspot’s design is clean and simple and it has the WC3 stamp of approval. So in I went…

The author has been blogging for about a year and I wanted to delve into the older entries to see what was ticking in his mind. I found I had to login to access older reviews. Blah! He has a Login FAQ (likely because a lot of people have been turned off by having to login. He writes: “Why do I require visitors to login? To keep track of comments and give members access to certain things the general internet public can not.” Sigh. Fine. Which brought me to the next issue… Where do I sign up?!

In spite of this I poked around, the author has other logs in addition to the normal blog. There is his pixelog (which is a photo log) which I loved… A picture really is worth a thousand words. I found it strange that I could browse older pictures without having to login via the next and prev links at the bottom of the page. Gee, am I hung up on this? Also of interest (which I have not seen before) was a spamlog. Ahh, yes you get spam, I get spam, we all hate spam… Here is an idea of what to do with it before you delete it. Interesting. “World’s Smallest Remote Control Car – On Sale! – greatdeals@greatoffrs.com – header info>” Hehe.

Well I never did find out how to login. In spite of that I was able to read quite a few entries. The author shares interesting bits and pieces of his day to day life. I found the author to be entertaining and funny at times “The next step for this blog is to create custom error pages that appear when perverts come from google searching for “saucy pics” or “topless saucy college.” Apparently “saucy” has a slightly different connotation in the UK than it does to me”.

Saucyspot is a good general read for all. Nothing was offensive or groundbreaking, everything was honest and amusing. And in spite of the questionable login, I think many people would enjoy his blog. Good job overall. saucyspot

With a name like saucyspot I wasn’t sure what I was going to get into. It could be a number of different things, most of which I left to the imagination.

What I found was a pretty standard blog. The color scheme was original (whites, blacks, grays, and oranges) however it seems to be the start of the new fad in colors. The layout is your standard two column layout with the content being on the left side and navigation on the right. While looking at the content in the columns, I noticed that the site was valid xhtml and css as per w3 and then it hit me; this site looked like all the other sites that validate their code through the w3. Don’t get me wrong, I think valid code is great, but why do most of these sites look alike?

The weblog itself is nothing new. It is your same old stuff of posting random things that are thought of. The writing is of good quality with no spelling or grammatical errors that I noticed. I was hoping for something to strike me as a must read entry, but like the design of the site, I found it reading much like a lot of weblogs today.

So after looking over the weblog for some golden nugget, I went to the about page. Of course, the about page lead me to a FAQ page, which was a little confusing. Of course, when I went to the FAQ page, it read more like an about page.

Over all you have a fairly standard and average weblog. I am sure that it will just jump right out and scream read me to some people, while others will not be interested. I recommend at least taking a look at it to see if it is a weblog of interest for you.
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Foolmaker [aka: Foolzone] is a Blogspot site, so the first thing I noticed is the advertising on the Blogspot banner across the top of the site. As much as I’d love to win a Mini Cooper, I don’t think it has anything to do with Foolmaker. The site itself doesn’t really strike an immediate impression – there are no graphics [other than the Blogspot banner] and the colors are dark. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the writing since there were no visual clues.

This is not a journal for the masses. Foolmaker really isn’t a journal that lends itself to casual reading. A lot of the entries are written in poetic form and don’t come with the accompanying story to explain the emotions and incidents behind the poetry. Many non-poetic entries are either very disjointed or written in stream-of-consciousness style, and won’t make any sense to anyone except the writer. There’s good sentiment and good writing in some of the entries, but none of it is very fleshed out. Because I found it hard to follow, it just wasn’t that interesting for me.

One of my biggest pet peeves in writing is lack of capitalization. The author of Foolmaker does not use capitalization at the beginning of her sentences on a consistent basis. The biggest problem is that a month’s worth of entries are on each page and they are in order from newest to oldest – this makes it difficult to read with any sort of continuity. After reading the journal, the design doesn’t seem to fit the writing. The writing is, for lack of a better word, pretty, but the design is just kind of blah. In addition, some of the linked pages that are part of the site have an alternative design.

Foolmaker has links to other sites she likes, commenting, wishlist, and a link to a page that has some of her poetry. Nothing out of the ordinary. Foolmaker does have a small section on her template about herself, but it isn’t very informative. The site could definitely benefit from a good About page.

If you like to read poetry, Foolmaker might be for you. I doubt I would come back for another visit – I just couldn’t get a good feel for who the author is.

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My first impression when I followed the link to the site was that all the colored squares was a splash page that would lead me to the main site, but all the squares were individual links to different areas of the site.

It took me way too long to find the blog, er, journal really because it’s a Live Journal. I thought for a while that the site didn’t have one, but I found it eventually by clicking on the red box and then in another box under the “more” section.

According to her bio, “Corie.doublethinker.com” is created and maintained by a 19-year-old girl named Corie going to a local junior college in Bakersfield, California. She writes mostly about what any other student in college would; classes, friends, incidents that happen along the way, etc. I think you can get a decent idea of her personality from her writing, which is good. Though, nothing really stood out to me in the writing and read like other sites by teenagers who seem to have a lot of energy; very “oh, i wanna post this really quick!” type of style.

On the rest of the site, you’ll find a links to music, cliques, pictures, art and drawings and other things of interest to Corie.

The site overall is so-so and I can’t find anything to rave about.
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For starters, this isn’t a site you can look at in a work environment or with small children around – not unless you want your coworkers and impressionable youngsters to get a few shots of some naked women to last them for the day. I feel better about myself now that I’ve warned random readers of the links they could encounter at Gratiot Blog.

Aside from never knowing what I was finding as I clicked on links throughout the weblog entries, I had a hard time following this weblog.

Sure, I found the links to alternative meats to be quite interesting, as I never knew there were so many alternatives to eating a hamburger. But alternatively, I can’t help but feel QUITE disgusted after reading the first two lines of “Confessions of an Anal Addict”. Not to blame the author for subjecting myself to such information, but just an example to show prospective readers the wide range of external links they’ll find scattered throughout the typical weblog entry.

It’s hard to tell which content actually relates to the author, and which is just made up on the fly to throw out some entertaining links. I’ve never heard strawberry shortcake compared to what the author’s compared it to in the latest weblog entry as of July 2.

I couldn’t make heads or tails of the archive format. They aren’t exactly grouped according to their proper date. Since the author does use plenty of links on a regular basis, some of the hyperlinks included in the archived entries are broken, which leads you to wonder what type of surprise the author may have planted for you to find.

Is this a BAD weblog? Not at all. Is it a GREAT weblog? I couldn’t find anything that made it stand out from the rest. Gratiot Blog