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An oldy and a goody. Probably one of the first blogs I ever encountered. This is one of what I call the “upper tier” of blogs. That is, there’s a small group of blogs that have been around since Blogger began, that are almost synonymous with the world ‘blog,’ that get a good deal of traffic, and that are usually somehow connected to Pyra, either by former employment or friendship.



That being side, the design of caterina.net actually isn’t very good, and hasn’t been updated in recent memory, but that matters little. The focus is on the content.



It’s the site of Caterina Fake, who’s now in Vancouver, having just recently relocated there from San Francisco. She just got herself a chihuahua named Dos Pesos, because she fell in love with Heather Champ and Derek Powazek’s (two more big blog names) two critters.



What you’ll find in Caterina’s postings is a teeming, prolific intelligence. She’s very well read–you can tell, because she has a list of every book she’s ever read–quite articulate, and fair in her analysis. You won’t find an explosion of personality and humor, however, although she is wonderfully amusing and very witty at times, cute and playful at others. Ultimately, every post is rewarding, and you definitely have to be a loyal reader to keep up (she updates often, and is verbose, like this review).



All in all, caterina.net is very safely established in what I call “the daily read” category.Caterina.Net

It’s not certain where exactly nu-produkt is located, but judging from the bullet-proof grammar, diction, and syntax of the posts, and frequent UK-references, I’d say it was located somewhere in the Ozarks. I’m probably wrong, though. [Ed: Maybe I should have gone with my first guess… whatever.]



nu-produkt is a loose confederation of web designers (translation: a group blog), and is apparently operated by a fellow named littleboy. The design is excellent: non-intrusive, balanced, innovative. The site’s audience seems to be fairly broad–it earns about 1700 visits per month–yet parts of the page are probably only understood by a small group of people (the bloggers themselves, I presume).



The content is mostly web- and tech-based, usually short and bite-sized. I haven’t been disappointed with a single link yet. They recently completed a Shockwave-based game in which you can choose which nu-produkt blogger you want to be, and which enemy you want to destroy. If you beat the game, you win a nu-produkt t-shirt. I haven’t beaten the game yet, but I bet the t-shirt is cool.



The best thing about this site are the tidbits they throw in: random graphics and animations, sound clips, editorials, even a random lyric quite from Nas or Mos-Def.



nu-produkt seems only to have been around since mid-August, 2001, when they gave away their “twat of the year award” (don’t ask me). It’s not a “daily read” for me, but it’s certainly promising. Definitely worth the time to browse around.nu-produkt

After about 5 minutes of reading through Fort Drastic, I was finally able to figure out what it was all about. I think my age is starting to show due to my lack of insight into current youth culture. This became evident to me as I tried to figure out what was going on here. However, once I had it squared away, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Fort Drastic is a group weblog that is run by a half-dozen or so guys. These guys contribute to the site in various ways: from weblog entries to music reviews to writings and seethings. My interest was piqued among most areas of the site, though I must say the weblog page itself wasn’t overly stimulating. Short entries that didn’t really make sense to me (perhaps my age showing again) were sprinkled lightly with links to off-site and local content.

I had the most fun reading through other sections of the site, such as the Mountainspace and Review areas. Digging through the archives surfaced more good stuff to read. I also liked the Grits area, which was a page full of off-site links you usually don’t see on other weblogs. Having been in a band that opened for GG Allin back in 1990, I was particularily amused at the link to his site. (My age comes through again).

Each contributor to the site had a short bio, all of which were humorous, to say the least. I especially liked that of Buss Russ, who offered insights into sneaking drugs out of El Salvador in boxes marked “Tube Socks”.

The overall design of the site was decent, though a little confusing at times. I kept trying to click on little icons and things that looked like buttons, to no avail. However, the navigation was simple and nothing crashed my browser or annoyed me into leaving; a definite problem among similar sites I have reviewed

For a good display of what a group weblog can do when several people put their minds to it, go check out Fort Drastic. By all means an entertaining site.
Fort Drastic

This is a pretty good site. The site is well organized with an orange look to it, very orange actually.



WebReaper’s a bit underdeveloped because it’s fairly new and I hope that it’ll grow a bit more over the next few months or so, but it’s a pretty good site to find amusing links to sites ranging from health to movie/tv guides to bubble wrap clothing. Yes, bubble wrap clothing. Kevin, who runs the site, even has a site of the month. He has links on the side bar to top sites for different topics like news, sports and references which is helpful if you’re searching for more.



It’s a fairly good site which needs a little work, but has some great links to stuff you didn’t know existed. WebReaper

First off is the layout. You can read the text and the colors match pretty well.



Second, the log. It was interesting I read just about every post. There is good grammar making it easy to read.



This blog is also a photolog which is interesting…



On my 56k modem, this site probably took me about 3 minutes to load. Which, can get annoying.



Last, the information is on different pages. Which is fine seeing that most people put it on the same page… It’s fun to be different.Miss Fancy Pants