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This blog is written by Paul, who lists his occupation as, Keeping alive. He doesn’t write where exactly he is from, only that he is “From Within The Earth,” which is also the name of his blog.

His tagline cryptically reads: “I went underground. And now I found a link back to the world. From within my own Kingdom, hidden far below the earth, in cellars unseen, I hide. And wait.”



Paul’s posts are poetically written and sometimes are, in fact, short poems. In a recent post, Paul discusses the recent Terri Schiavo debate and offers his opinion on society as a result. His words have a free flowing quality to them, as if he writes what comes to his mind, before being over analyzed. It’s this purity that kept me reading more, that and its dark side. Indeed there is a dark side to his posts, one that reveals a bit of pain and anger. Paul posts quite frequently, almost daily, and usually offers his take on the world and his adventures finding a friends’ lost boy, which verges on obsession.

The design is a typical boring blogger template and the side column lacks any extra blog features like a clock or a weather forecast thing, but there is a web counter and a few links.

Overall, Paul’s vagueness is intriguing and could easily attract more readers to want to discover and read more.From Within The Earth

I thought from the title of this blog that it might be a bit rude, but it’s actually quite the opposite. When the page loads up it’s main picture is a Rion Vernon drawing which I wish more bloggers would give credit to as his pictures are copyrighted. There isn’t much about the author in her abouts section, there’s a link to her old blogger, an email link and something called the b&l story which is basically how the name came into being.

I couldn’t find anything unique about this blog, it’s got the usual things in it, quizzes, rants and raves and other things that the author likes and enjoys. I do believe that this blog is geared for people that the author would know or has built a relationship with over the blogosphere because as a person who doesn’t know the author, I don’t really have any incentive to come back and visit.

I will admit that the layout is great, the links all work and there are no horrible bright and garish colours to scare one away. Being a relatively new blog, I think the author is still finding her feet and her blog may develop, or it may not.

I gave this blog a 3 because of the fact that it really is like many blogs out there. I didn’t find it amusing or interesting enough to throw up blinkers to the world and get engrossed, again, this might be due to the fact that the blog itself is only 3 months old or the fact that the blog author is writing for herself moreso than an audience. I’d like to see what the blog becomes in a year’s time.
http://boobsandlegs.net/

When I first saw that the name of this site was Boobs and Legs I thought that I would be subject to an adult blog run by either a horny 18 year old male or a money hungry male trying to get people to sign up for all of his affiliate programs. Thankfully neither of these choices is what I received.

When I first got to Boobs and Legs, I was greeted with a nice caricature. I immediately knew that this was not one of my initial thoughts and was going to be written by a female. I thought this was a great name for a blog, especially one that is written by a female. Why not take what you got and flaunt it or use it to your advantage?

The blog has a nice two-column layout with the caricature in the top of one column, which is home to all of the links she provides us with. The color scheme is a dark khaki and red, which works very well. Going over the link column I was a little taken aback by how much was on there. From top to bottom we have: navigation, about section, a quote, blog chalk thing (that doesn’t work), archives in the form of a calendar then again in a drop down, stats about comments, the last 10 comments, more comment links about the posts, most commented posts, about a screen and a half of links to other sites, some people she is giving credit to, some more stats, and finally the weather. Wow that was a long breath. While I don’t find anything wrong with having this much in your link column, at least make sure there is more content than the links, which unfortunately there is not.

So going over all of the posts I can tell you I found this blog to be boring. The blog does not talk about a specific topic like technology or sports, but is about her daily life. There are far to many “What type of blank are you” results within the blog. Whoever came up with those quizzes should be shot. They don’t tell us anything about the author. The posts that aren’t of this sort are about what the author is going to wear, more specifically bras and underwear. Now I have to give the author some props for actually taking pictures of her bra’s and panties and posting them for us, but the thrill of it kind of wears off after about the 3rd time. All the pictures are hosted on flickr and unfortunately are not even sent to a popup and thus we have to navigate back to the blog. This was a deterrent for me.

The author has a great concept for a site, but poor execution on it. I love the name of the site, I am a fan of the design part, but the content just isn’t there for me. If she would post less results and more general stuff then by all means, this blog would improve. The author has no problems with taking pictures of herself, and I think she could really capitalize on this. More specifically, run with the bra and panty idea, but make it more relevant to your target audience (females). I cannot justify giving this site a higher score, as there were just too many things that knocked it down. I honestly think this site has potential, but it requires that the author sit down and focus on what she wants out of the site and stops focusing on what she thinks her audience wants out of her site.http://boobsandlegs.net/

From the title itself, I knew that this was going to be about Iran. Duh.

And I was right. After the first few entries I read, my hunch was proven right.

The entries itself aren’t really entries. They were bits and pieces of news articles and the links where it came from plus more articles and more links. But hey, it’s cool. The fact that this blog is out there to help anyone who needed some information about recent news in Iran is good.

The layout was alright. It was the usual blog template but I always believed that the words mattered more than the look. And this one wasn’t so bad. I especially liked the banner it had. Very strong and powerful.

Overall, I liked it. I haven’t really been current with the events and whatnot from Iran and this blog is very helpful. Regime Change Iran

Random Acts of Verbage proved to be a religious blog. This is not the only type of posts that can be found on the blog, but the majority of posts seem to fall under this category.

The first thing I noticed upon entering the blog is the width of the page. It is so wide that it neccessitated a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom, and I am viewing it with a 1024 x 768 resolution. This seems to be the result of some pictures that had been posted side by side on the blog, which increased the width. I do believe that if you paid attention to your blog, you would see this issue and fix it. As a result the blog is extremely difficult to read and navigate.

You can really get a feel for who the author is by reading his ‘bio’ and may I add that he seems to be on a very interesting path in life (Go to his blog to read all about it). His blog is the main content and is very interesting, if you are interested in religion. But he also posts his thoughts on international politics, his recent writings on theological topics, and his daily life – which really shows off his less serious (and funnier) side, because some of those topics mentioned previously are pretty ‘heavy’ reading. There’s plenty there to keep you reading and entertained and you can actually learn something.

Overall, I really enjoyed this blog. The aspect that I liked the most was his daily life posts. What I enjoyed the least was the ‘too wide’ width on the main page which made the blog difficult to nvaigate, and I also did not like the fact that the sidebar was so long. There are so many things on the sidebar (some of which could probably be removed) and with the link to the categories being the last thing – I felt like it took hours to get to it. MattJonesBlog