Review 1041

From the start, it’s clear the creator of this site knows the value of

clear presentation. Pandagon, with it’s blue and white colour scheme,

and the visual Morse code theme (which reminds me of genetic

fingerprinting), instantly gave me an optimistic desire to get

reading.

Having read everything there is to read of the blog, I am left with

much the same, somewhat unfulfilled desire to read. With only three

entries on the current page, and two in the archives (both dated 29th

November, 2001), it seems this is a blog that has to be followed as it

is written. I don’t feel it’s enough to really give this blog the

review it may well deserve.

From what little there is at this time, it appears that Jesse, the

author, is doing a pretty good job. There is an entry that comes

across as a piece of creative writing, but other than that, the blog

strikes me as being Jesse’s reflections on things in and around

his life. From some of the writing, I get the impression that he is

quite an imaginative, perhaps even creative, individual. Comics seem

to feature quite strongly, but they are not what this blog is about.

To the right of the blog itself can be found the conventional sidebar

of links to other sites, archives, information about the author and

the site, and an email link. It’s quite clear what each section is

for, and there’s no clutter.

As well as giving a little information about himself, Jesse provides a

summary of the history of his websites. And, along with the blog,

that’s about all there is to this site. Having said that, Jesse also

links to his old university pages, and also his online diary, which

I found quite entertaining and humorous.

Pandagon certainly seems to be a good blog, well presented and

interestingly written, but I do wish Jesse kept archives! This is a

blog worth visiting, and I will be visiting again. With my optimism

still holding, I shall give this a four.

pandagon

Review 1022

At first I wasn’t sure what to expect from “naked thoughts” except your average blog where the writer posts about what they did that say, little observations on the way to the store or what stupid thing someone said. To my surprise, I found a pretty good weblog here.

Tiara is from Indonesia and English is a second language for her, which I learned through one of her posts. She writes English pretty well and even though the writing doesn’t flow, you’re still able to understand her pretty well. I liked that she was expressive in her writing and especially in a language that’s not her primary language. She doesn’t write about what she’s done that day, or what really annoys her like your regular weblog, but more about things that have meaning to her such as poems, emails that have substance to them or just what she’s feeling and thinking about a particular person or situation.

I got a bit confused with getting around this site, especially with the archives when I was looking for her archives. She has a drop down menu which first contains all regular areas of a site, FAQ, bio, archives, etc. However there are also links below, which change the drop down menu, which I didn’t get for a while. This needs to be more organized a bit. I like the main graphic on the site that contains the title; makes for an interesting image.

Overall this is a pretty good site. There’s stuff I like and don’t like about it, but mostly what makes this site strong is the writing and Tiara’s ability to express herself well through a language that’s not easy to learn or speak. A definitely visit if you want to read a blog with some meaning.naked thoughts

Review 947

Kaushik has this weblog as a showcase of different links found on the ‘net that the author has deemed interesting. As Kaushik puts in the very first weblog entry at this site, you may find some “scintillating commentary” when the author has time.



There are some really interesting links that have been posted, and it does seem as if Kaushik only posts those links for the public to read when an opinion is available or the author has some personal commentary to add to it. By doing this, Kaushik gives the reader some insight of why the link is being posted and the opinion Kaushik has of the link or its subject matter.



The layout of the website is Blog*Spot template, and it fits nice enough for the site purpose.



Kaushik has a nice style of writing for what this weblog’s purpose is. The author is informative to his readers without sounding “preachy”, which is what prevented this site from just a 3.0 rating.



RandomNotes

Review 958

Van 46’s mission statement is very simple: this is where Jefe (the site’s owner) posts his photographs and links to news articles. And that’s about it.



The photography is reasonably interesting; even if it isn’t something you particularly enjoy at least most of it is hosted at photo.net, arguably the best photography resource on the internet today.



Linking to news articles and sites of interests is not the site’s strength, and is the kind of activity best left to community message boards like Metafilter. It is my personal opinion that the site would be far more successful if it was devoted entirely to photography: a weblog is a personal creation, and should concentrate on delivering a piece of the blogger’s world to the internet for general consumption.



The camera was invented to allow people to see the world by another’s perspective; links to the news does not offer this possibility.The Van 46

Review 957

I’ve seen True Love a hundred times before. Small font. Dark background. Punctuation used to convey emotion. Spelling error on the masthead image. Cursors that change when they pass over a link and lose their meaning.



I’ve seen it before, and chances are that you’ve seen it before as well. Welcome to another girlie blog.



This one’s obsession: currently it’s Hoobastank, but I’m too old and uncool to know who they are or why I should get excited about them. But then I am 22.



The site is ruled by a commercialised girl-power; links to online surveys to see which Buffy girl you would be pepper the site like sparkle on a high school textbook.



You can’t deny that the writer is enthusiastic, especially about the Internet. Maybe in four years time a metamorphosis will somehow take place turning True Love into bluishorange, and I’m not in a position to tell.



I’d recommend this site to two kinds of people: teen girls, and 40 year old men wanting to get up to speed on teen girl mentality before pretending to be a 16 year old ICQ chick.

True Love