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No offense, but this is a very unattractive blog. Though yellow and brown are usually fairly harmonious colors together, this is just not working for me. The link text to some very important areas of the blog, like the About page and the Archives etc. are infinitesimally small. Why? Our heroine’s photo is displayed in the header. Why is she making a face? Now I’m frowning too.

It took me a while to figure out how to get around here. The archives open to individual titles but when you go to one, the only way to continue reading is to go back to the list and pick another one. No, “next” or “previous” function makes for pretty tedious navigation.

The entries vary quite a bit. Some are quite short, quiz results, or a short note about her kid’s goings on that day. Others are about Greece, sort of a combination history/travelog. Some are just rants about the irritation du jour. The writing is clear and understandable, but didn’t capture my imagination very much.

The one exception is when she writes about her two miscarriages. It’s unfortunate that something so incredibly sad should be the impetus for the only entries that I felt that I was connecting with the author.

She also has links to other sites she has created. They include craft, recipe, web design and discussion forum pages. She seems a very versatile woman. This site might be of interest to other mothers and anyone curious about things Greek, both the place and the food.

It’s All Greek To Me

I wasn’t sure what to make of the title. As it happens Jenny is Greek… ah!

Thankfully I take notes when I’m reviewing as I’ve stopped getting access to the site… “Hi this is Jenny and thats my personal weblog. On here I write about my family my country and our every day life Because of the personal content and the plethora of weirdos out there you must be registered to view the content If you are already registered on any of my pages then just log in. If not please take the time to register below. Registration must be approved and it usually takes up to 24 hours.” I don’t have twenty four hours. I think I’ve read enough though to give you a flavour of what’s on offer.

On reaching the site I was greeted with a not too pleasant colour scheme. Red and cream I think, but I am colour blind and don’t always get these things right. The design was okay. A banner which acted as a home page and underneath it a link bar to other areas of her site. These contain the perfunctory archives and links to other blogs and sites. There is an about me section, 100 things and nine layers. Nine layers being a new one on me; on inspection it was another way of detailing a life. A kinda of quiz thing based on questions and answers. There was also a right hand panel with a members section, mailing list, stats, credits and a random picture.

In terms of getting around this was the most hassle I’ve had reviewing a blog. You have to go back to the archives each time you want to read a post. When the posts are less than enthralling this becomes tiresome.

There is an extensive family photo album which has some lovely family photos in it. Family is big in Jenny’s life and it informs most of her posts. She has a big desire to have another baby; I don’t know if she has gotten pregnant recently as I was cut off somewhere in April! The web log started in January this year and Jenny has posted regularly since.

She details her life as a wife, mother of two, guide leader and occasional worker. Her writing skills are poor, but she does well as English is her second language. On the whole she gets her message across well enough. She is an honest, enthusiastic lady and has an enthusiastic supportive readership and would appeal to anyone interested in the minutia of the daily grind. A soap opera.

One high spot for me was the regular chuckle as I came across another “I’ve just bought this” or “I’m excited about buying that” from the self proclaimed non materialist!

This was in no way a blog I would return to. However it does have its merits I guess, so for me just a two out of five.It’s All Greek To Me

Britney Spears Blabbermouth is a new Britney Spears fan site. I guess the world needed another Brittney Spears fan site on the web? *Ahem* Anyway, the site is pink and pretty and hasn’t been around very long at all, as it started in July… So there isn’t a whole lot of content here, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing in my humble opinion.

Blabbermouth has many photos of a mostly scantily clad Britney along with Enquirer-esque stories. The articles by Steve and Tiffany aren’t badly written, but how engaging can a story about Britney’s clothes be? In one entry, Steve offers some commentary on Spears’ next wedding: I am amazed at how much money people spend on weddings. The sad thing is to see such an elaborate affair often lead to divorce just a few short years later.’. We agree there.

You can read all about Britney and her day to day exploits with boyfriends, *music*, her *next* wedding and the media. Personally I can’t imagine anything more pointless than following the day to day activities of the bubble headed pop princess, but to each their own. Blabbermouth has a huge eBay ‘Britney Spears’ merchandise ad at the bottom of the page which detracts from any sincerity this site may have had. I wonder if eBay sales kickbacks are somehow the real point of this site?

Other than fans of the pop princess or guys looking for naughty Spears’ photos – I don’t know who would want to visit this blog. There are other much better sites devoted to the singer on the web. Much like Britney… there isn’t a whole lot of substance here. Ironically, this Blabbermouth doesn’t have a whole lot to say.

Britney Spears Blabbermouth

The Brittany Spears Blabbermouth exhibits a quintessential greatness of blogging – if you’re interested in Brittany Spears, you no longer have to do a Google search and sift through pages and pages of other information to find you Brittany gossip, you can just go to the Brittany Spears Blabbermouth. The blog is basically a collection of, and comments, on anything that has been published about Brittany Spears, from official press releases and performances to paparazzi pictures and gossip. The color scheme is perfect and it even includes a list of Brittany Spears-related paraphernalia available on eBay!

The authors (Tiffany B. and Steve) get their info from all kinds of sources and the blog – appropriately, if you consider the subject – is loaded with pictures of Brittany. Though there isn’t much on the blog that moves beyond commentary about news stories I had read at regular news outlets, having a collection of the stories and commentary in one place made the reading experience similar to reading a minute-by-minute biography of Brittany and the authors are good at tying a current Brittany event to people and events in her past.

Bottom line: if you’re already a die-hard Brittany stalker, this site won’t tell you much, but if you have a passing interest in her, this is where you can catch up with the die-hard stalkers. I’ll also reiterate that it’s an excellent, if somewhat frivolous, example of the potential function of blogs in the general media world. The layout seems to be a bit screwed up at the moment, but with all the Brittany info, pics, links, and eBay stuff, the site is worth a look.
Britney Spears Blabbermouth

This is a nice looking weblog with some celebrity gossip in it. The archives don’t work but are handy if you want to see what their template HTML looks like. On the other hand, the weblog has only been going three weeks anyway, so all the archives fit on to the main page.

The Blog’s URL is a subdomain of something to do with Ebay. It seemed entirely unrelated to the blog so I didn’t pursue the main site very much, but my guess is, there’s money to be made for the site owners somewhere along the line.

The site looks nice – it is black which I thought was quite sleek, clutter free and contains celebrity pictures throughout. The purple and blue text in the sidebar looks pretty as well. If I am going to have to read celebrity gossip, I guess a glare free site like this is as good a place as any.

I have no idea what the quality of the celebrity gossip is like because it is not something I am interested in. It seemed ok for the first three entries, then after that I got bored and just scanned the rest. Finding out that Britney Spears may have had zits wasn’t exactly the most meaningful piece of information I have acquired today. I currently have a zit on my chin at the moment and does anyone care? I don’t think so. Apparently the zits of a half-assed singer in America are more important than those of a humble weblog reviewer, which hardly seems fair.

Most of the information was relating to Hollywood stars, with a smattering of American sports stars and the occasional music or TV celebrity. To be honest, not being a fan of main stream culture (or living in America), I didn’t even know who half the celebrities were, let alone worry about whether they had been kissing someone else. The funniest entry was the first one. It lambastes Whoopi Goldberg for making sexual innuendos using President Bush’s name. Ok, you don’t have to be Einstein to make “Bush” a sexual reference, but apparently this shouldn’t be done because “This is the highest office in our land and the leader of the free world and no matter what you are to show it respect.” I guess insightful political commentary isn’t their strong point.

I guess if you like celebrity gossip, you could go out and by “Heat” magazine and be done with it (if you live in the UK that is – I am sure there are many equivalents in the US). I guess this site may have something extra to offer above and beyond the tabloid gossip columns, but I am rather doubtful in its present form.Scandal Snoops