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When I first saw the name Progressive Ink I honestly thought “Not another ink cartridge site trying to have their site reviewed.” That is due to the fact that I have had 2 Ink cartridge stores submitting a site to be reviewed. Anyway, since I am writing a review, it is safe to say this is not about ink cartridges.

The first thing I noticed was the very nice, crisp, clean design the site had. I don’t think it is a template and if it is, it has been modified with an original banner of some people dancing at the top. The gradient background is a nice little touch to add that extra clean and crispness.

The blog itself was definitely not what I was expecting. The site says “Interactive Notes Re: God, Life, Philosophy, Science, Religion, and Politic” which should have been my first clue this wasn’t going to be a site for me. The site mainly focuses on politics and religion though there are some other posts. To me the blog is just some one else dishing out their opinion on strong matters, which has been done before. Is it a different approach? Yes. Does it still interest me? No.

The archives are a little funky. Actually I take that back, they are non existent. The site is only 3 weeks old. The archives are done in two ways – by category on the right hand column which we know I hate, and by page numbers at the bottom. There is just something about listing the archives by month that makes reading a blog easier and more enjoyable.

I was a little disappointed to not find anything about the author. Matter a fact, I don’t know who the author is. I tried looking at the comment summaries to see if I could guess who the author was, but I couldn’t. When a blog is of such an opinionated nature such as this one, it is very important that we know WHO is giving us this line of thoughts. I don’t like being told this is what I think, or here is a thought I had debate it, without knowing who the author is.

Overall this site is not for me. After the massive political barrage of blogs this year due to being an election year, I am burned out on them. Additionally religion is another major topic that has been done before. While I didn’t see anything that hasn’t been done before the author at least backs up his questions and thoughts which is a rarity in blogs. I am giving this site a 2.5 because while the writing is good, the topic to me is not. Additionally I wish there was more to this site.Progressive Ink!

The way I saw it, the blog was different from others because of the simple layout. A simple banner that stated the name of the blog, Bravus, was there and nothing much really.

With the title, I had no clue what this blog was about. I looked at the side section and I saw only one category – general. Up to this point, I still had no idea what this blog was about.

So on to reading. The blog is a collection of a variety of topics. From the personal life of the author to whatever idea he had in his head as he was updating, it can be found there. Nothing special, really.

The layout itself, I found boring. It was just too simple. I guess the layout doesn’t distract the reader from the entries. But I just found it a little boring.

Overall, I suggest a peruse of this blog for a quick look. You might find what you need, you might not.

Bravus

I thought of the insurance company when I read the title “Progressive Ink!” That didn’t really make much sense especially since I kinda figured that this was not a marketing blog by Progressive. But enough of that.

I liked the layout a lot. It was simple and the fact that the different shades of gray was the background and everything looked so nice in its simplicity scored points from me.

The entries come through when the subtitle promised “Interactive Notes Re: God, Life, Philosophy, Science, Religion and Politics. All I can say is that most of them are rants about what the author thought. Like some rants, the entries here were funny and witty and sometimes even to the point of being lighthearted.

Overall, I suggest that everyone stop by at least once and read through the author’s wit.Progressive Ink!

I wasn’t sure what the word Bravus meant so I tried to look it up. Unfortunately no results for it, so I was left clueless as to what to expect in this blog.

The page loads up to a very simple design. Grey background, black text, two columns, and a big header in a dark red is all there is. No images, no fancy scripts, just the blog and the normal second column info. One thing I noticed is that there is a broken image right above the twr button, which got me thinking about my image. The author has hot linked my image, rather than download it, and upload it to his server. This is something that is generally frowned upon as it isn’t cool to steal someone else’s bandwidth. If I wanted, I could replace the image with a picture of a clown, or a monkey, or something worse and he would be non-the-wiser.

While reading the blog I have discovered that the author is a teacher in some sort of science – I am about 99% positive it is physics, but I could be wrong. There are quiet a few of these science posts as well as teaching and daily life. The blog itself doesn’t have much that doesn’t read as a “that’s already been done in a blog”.

Overall I felt this was just your average blog. You may like it, you may not. There is nothing preventing me from saying go visit this site, and there is nothing preventing me from saying don’t. This is one of those sites where you are either going to connect and enjoy it, or if you are like me and have read countless blogs, find it rather similar to a lot of other blogs out there.Bravus

Based on another blogger template, the initial impression I got was that this is a blog based on the author’s political & every day views, what gave that away was the blurb he had under his header which states:

“A collection of real-world libertarian, individualist and laissez-faire rants on policy, culture and other current events by an average, everyday lawyer & investment banker and part-time pop scholar.”

A stitch in Haste has one author. A KipEsquire. The blog is mainly about his views and opinions. Events and occurances that grab his attention or are an interest to him. I do like that he had his blog roll seperated into different sections. Makes for easy finding.

What I expected from this blog is exactly what I got. One person’s views on American politial and cultural issues. My not being an American I guess doesn’t help, especially since I don’t have any idea what he is talking about, I have a hard time following Australian politics!

I’d have to say there are more political postings than anything else, the links and quotes used are used well by the author. He puts forward his argument in a structured form and above all, his argument makes sense! The author uses links that are unique, linking back to blogs that he reads, as well as some that are common, ie. Washington Post.

All in all, I think that this blog doesn’t really do anything for me. But that could be because I’m not American and I’m not political. If you, on the other hand, are political, check it out, KipEsquire has some interesting opinions.A Stitch in Haste