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I must admit I was rather surprised when I saw the title and then compared it to the site. “George’s Employment Blawg”. The title certainly lacks creativity and the first thing that popped into my head was that the site was about a man called George who was going to report on his rather menial job using phrases such as “Fo shizzle” and the like! Thankfully the end result turned out to be one of the most expertly written blogs I have ever encountered!

Georges Employment Blawg (a play on the word “blog” to include the word “law”) covers topics related to the area of employment and is a collaboration between three professionals; George (the founder of the “blawg”), Michael Harris and Catherine Collingwood who happens to be the designer of the site. In my opinion she hasn’t done a bad job of it. The colour scheme works well and while there are Google Ad’s present, they are placed in a position where they don’t get in the way of you reading the content.

The content itself is (as I’ve said earlier) related to everything employment but slanted more towards the legal aspects in it’s case studies. It also reports findings from other sites which almost makes it an essential portal for existing lawyers and wannabe lawyers. Now the word “lawyer” may scare away the average Joe Soap who may be expecting to be bombarded with a load of legal mumbo-jumbo but surprisingly this isn’t the case and everything is explained in an easy to follow manner.

If you are part of the workforce and are interested in the implications of lawsuits amongst other companies/corporations then I would highly recommend this blog. If you do happen to be unemployed then I would still recommend the blog for it’s incredible insights!NULL

I had no idea what to expect venturing onto the domain of EdgarAndEllen.com. After reading the first couple of posts, I realized that I was clearly missing out on who Edgar and Ellen are by not watching their television series. With the help of Wikipedia and all of the information available on this weblog’s main site, I learned more than I could have imagined. Edgar and Ellen are the main characters in a series of children’s books written by Charles Ogden. The two namesakes of this site are children that spend time in a cemetery with the likely spooky company that one would expect.

When the site loads, a design comes up that has tweaked to show pictures of Edgar and Ellen in the header image and to make the site appear a bit more spooky than the standard WordPress template would. The site is easy to navigate and easy on the eyes, both much appreciated features of a weblog. It uses a two-column layout and the creators of this site keep the additional information in the sidebar to a minimum. Readers and fans can order the books or find out where to download Podcasts. They can also send Edgar and Ellen e-cards or play games involving the characters of these stories.

The site is fairly new. Appropriately enough, the blog portion of the site only rolled out a couple of days following Halloween. The updates come somewhat frequently and make an attempt to encourage reader feedback via the comments portion of each post.

It became clear to me that this site is geared towards people that watch Edgar and Ellen. Having never seen the show, I was unable to participate in the posts that pose questions about how one might interact with the title characters or what readers think about particular aspects of the show.

Blogs are becoming very popular. We all know that. In this case, the creators of the EdgarAndEllen.com site have opted to use a blog for viewer and fan interaction, rather than a message board. This may be something that takes off for other fan-related type sites in the future.

For now, this site is a must visit for those that follow the show. Those folks that know about this show will immediately add it to their list of bookmarks to be updated on all of the upcoming activity related to the show.
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Here I am, its a Saturday morning and it’s too early to get drunk yet so I hop on the net to catch up with The Web Log Review. The first site in the list today is “The Red Sneaker Diaries”, an adult/personal sex blog detailing the sexual encounters, conquests, and kinky additions to our authors life of raunch and debauch. Naturally, the tone is one of pure exhibition and you get a sense of the author’s pleasure in this. Straight away the authors legs and rear decorate my screen as a display of her recently acquired, pink knee-high boots.

Well, this sure beats the regular bag of oh-so-tediuous personal blogs filled with lengthy discourse about stuff that, I really honestly don’t care about and I don’t have any reason to care about the Red Sneaker Diaries either. However, a good set of sexy pins on the front page is a good enough hook for any red blooded male, I keep reading.

Categories include – Girl Sex, Kink, Pics, Sex, Spanking and others and appeal immediately to my baser instincts. I refrain for a minute and instead read the most recent entries including some quiet sex-in-a-house-full-of-sleeping-guests I’m sure more than a few of us can relate to. Others include a spanking so hard it breaks a wooden spoon, and other descriptive narratives for sexual encounters in various settings.

The design of the site is easy on the eye, and unlike most sex blogs is devoid of the distracting and down right annoying flashy adult ads. I am a fan of simple design and this site’s design is appealing. The site logo is very iconic with a fetish style nude wearing only red sneakers, although the pixels show and I reckon it could be cleaned up with Illustrator or some kind of vector lines to clean up the curves, its a great header though. There is a spelling error in the about section on the left and the occasional typo in some of the posts but these seem like honest mistakes and are not too frequent otherwise as the author has a good grip on the written word.

The Red Sneaker Diaries is a unashamedly sexy blog with a writing style akin to porn or romance fiction although we are led to believe this is a journal of our female authors sexual life, and we have no reason to believe it isn’t. The blogroll relates to others mentioned in her posts suggesting a nice community of sex bloggers, (One of whom has a site I’ve already reviewed!). I’m also happy to see a photography section as well as some How-to’s I’ll never need, but it helps diversify the site.

Overall a good read with some delicious post titles including “Fisting Anna”, “Women and Wax; Ice and Knives” “Anatomy of My Orgasm”, and “As My Pussy Would Say”. The Red Sneaker Diaries are well worth a visit particularly for those into spanking and domination, however it still makes interesting reading for the rest of us with enough diversity of content. The site has semi-regular updates but is very consistent and well read within the community. NULL

TravBuddy is a “one-stop” where an individual can share travel photos, reviews, and experiences with others. The colors are nice too, rather cheerful and do not detract from the site itself, the layout is quite simple.

The site is the brainchild of two brothers just out of college, who wanted young people to have a place to go for quality firsthand travel experiences. While perusing the site, I found a user who has visited fourteen countries and journaled the entire trip, including mapping it out using google maps. TravBuddy’s registered users come from all over the world.

In order to post photos, reviews of your travel, or any other info an individual has to be registered and so far the site owners boast at least 1000 members and is increasing almost daily.

At first glance, an individual who is not familiar with the site will wonder its purpose, as it really isn’t clear until reading the “about” section at the bottom of the web page. Once I understood the purpose of the site, I thought it was pretty unique. I’ve never seen one like it before but considering there are already 1000 members I’d say there must obviously be a need for it. “If you build it they will come” and they certainly came to TravBuddy in droves. It’ll take a little while to navigate and get used to it but it’s relatively simple and if you want to get some real firsthand information about traveling to a particular destination this is certainly the place to go.

Just remember that like everyone’s tastes tend to be different and while it’s a great idea to take into consideration the feedback on TravBuddy it shouldn’t be the sole resource in making any travel decisions. Overall I’d say this is a unique site and has a lot of potential so long as its members give quality feedback.NULL

Last time I checked, this website that you’re reading right now was called The Weblog Review. Now, for me, that means we review these things called weblogs (or blogs). Maybe you’ve heard of them.

The name of this site is FusionCharts for Blogs – Animated flash charts, and I guess it didn’t really sound like a weblog from the start, but I decided to give it a chance. And guess what? It’s not a weblog at all and there’s not a blog hiding anywhere at all.

The products on the site seem like they’d definitely benefit a blog, and adding a weblog into the site would be a great idea to help readers know about the development process of it all. With addition of an actual blog, I’d be able to rank this site a lot higher. Without? It doesn’t really fall into the type of site that’s reviewed here at all.

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