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When opening Substitute Scene, I immediately see a rather large and yellow graphic to the left of the mostly white page. The design is clean and pleasant until the grungy black letters of the title load on the right. The splotched letters just don’t work well with the clean layout. From this first sight I half expected to begin reading the blog of an angsty teenage boy who will tell me how much he hates his parents with every entry.



Thankfully, my first impressions were unfounded. The thoughts posted within this weblog come from Reen. She’s 19 and her life, as well as her blog, seems to revolve mostly around her friends. Entries range from very mundane to things of a more personal and provoking nature. I suppose, for my taste, I would have rather seen more of the personal entries outnumber the mundane ones. Most of the entries are written with care, but a few are quite confusing. I think perhaps those entries may have been targeted towards a particular group of friends who frequent the log.



Added features to Substitute Scene include a selection of photos from NYC just after 9-11 and various other artistic projects. I enjoyed the montage presented in the visual section and would like to see more from Reen in this area.



I think Substitute Scene and Reen herself appeal to an audience of younger adults with social lifestyles. Overall this site is worth a look, but I hope in the future that we will be able to see a bit more of Reen exposed to the web and exploring her creativity.



Leesubstitute scene.

New URL: http://anewmaven.xoasis.com



Before I even started to read or before I COULD even start to read this weblog, I had to close three different pop up windows. I hate pop up windows.



There’s not much to the design of the site, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It wasn’t terrible to look at, but wasn’t something that left me in complete awe.



The “about me” section, while very complete and thorough, is quite cumbersome to read through.



The weblog itself is filled with the typical teenage angst of a 17 year old boy. Posts are very infrequent as of late, but Nathan does have a good sense of humor and a nice writing style.



Fun things I noticed? Nathan wears a very cool hat in his current cam picture, and the fan signs are a neat addition.



For Nathan’s age group, this is probably a bookmark-worthy site, however, it may not be something for people of all ages.A New Maven

My first impression of WoF:SPRFW: You can’t have “culture” without “cult”, is that the title is about as long as the blog itself.

Furnace, the name of author, is 24 years old, lives in Canada, and that is all I was able to find out from reading. There is no archive section and the blog has only about a month of entries. Just to make sure I didn’t visit the site on a bad day I brought up Google’s cache of the website and it was pretty much the same thing (although I got to read a few more entries). There is one funny entry about the author and some friends accidentally visiting a house of prostitution, but that is pretty much as entertaining as this one got.

The author uses blogspot to host the site, nothing wrong with that, some of the best blogs out there are on blogspot, and the author picked a pretty good template. Along the left side of the blog there are some of the authors likes i.e. book, movie, and a qoute and some links to other sites.

All in all, this was just not a very interesting weblog. It needs archives, and some more info on the author (I don’t even know if the author is male or female but I think male). I don’t even know what the title of the blog means. One star, check it out if you are really bored.

WoF:SPRFW: You can’t have “culture” without “cult”

This is fairly new and pretty simple site. First thing I look for in a blog is “about me” to get to know the person that writes. No place to be found here. I can’t really tell if it is a girl or a guy (or should the name, Tyler, tell me that? I don’t think so, I’ve been surprised before while assuming gender by a name), a teenager or an adult, or where he/she lives; although because of the topics I’d say it is a guy in his mid 20’s and he lives somewhere in Brazil.

The design couldn’t be simpler. White background, no fancy letter type or colors, no links and no graphics; just a statement that reflects very well the author’s intention on the writing: “Percepções, politica, economia, gibis e cultura na visão do transeunte, que segue caminhando sem se envolver. Traga seu farnel” or “Perceptions, politics, economy, comics and culture in the view of a somebody that passes by and keep its way without getting involved. Bring your provisions”

He alternates between Portuguese and English on the posts.

It would help if every time you click on the page in any place that’s not a link doesn’t take you to the e-mail application, that’s kind of annoying.

Let’s talk about the writing itself. Brilliant for a weblog. The author seems to know where he/she is going, clearly expressing his/her thoughts. Love the philosophic angle of the topics and the analysis of the simple world out there. He comments books, newspapers articles, comics, movies, sport games, music and musicians, culture and TV. Intelligent. All worth the reading if you are interested in others people point of view of the world. I wouldn’t mind spending an evening with him/her over coffee discussing life.
Hot Chocolat

No/w/here is a neat little blog, with fishes and all.

The site appealed to me automatically when the site loaded up with the banner of colorful, tropical fish and the fish, which also are used as breaks between the posts. It’s a crisp, simple, green layout and classy if you ask me.

The “about” section didn’t offer me much information about the writer. From the blog itself, I did get to learn more about her, who prefers to be referred to as “Anonymous B. Nowhere.”

She’s just recently returned back to school to be a science major who used to be a firefighter which she mentions in one of her most recent posts where she ended up help save a life from a fire, win a trip from a scratch off and ace a math test all in the same day. She’s quite vocal about things going on in the news and also stuff going on about on the web, especially the world of weblogging of course.

I got a good vibe from her through the site. She seems like a writer who’s true to herself in her writing and doesn’t feel the need to hide her feelings like some people do when publishing their thoughts online.

If you’re looking for a site that has sarcasm, wit and candid writing, then you might want to check out this site.
No/w/here