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I traveled over to the Climate Change Action to see exactly what they had to say about Global Warming and who the author was blaming for the change in weather. That is what I was expecting, but when I arrived I found a site that was devoted to the change in climate with scientific data and research to back the finds.

This site is not a site to blame any specific group of the changing climate. It just says that climate is changing and here are some ideas why. The blog began in July 2005 and has had many posts. Some things to expect when reading the blog are charts, graphs, and photos from casualties of the weather. I feel that if you need a good place for climate research here would be a good place to go. The information appears to be legit with many credible resources backing the information being presented. The author also presents information where he is applying for one of six positions at the Ben and Jerrys Climate College. He also provides personal feelings on some topics he feels are very important dealing with the weather.

The design of the site is a typical blogspot template. A two column blog with the main information located in the left column, while the right column is loaded with links dealing with the climate, past articles, comments, and archives. It has a “catchy” banner, which is made of simply text and color. I thought it was an interesting way to present a menu for the site. The menu provides the following choices: climate change action, climate change news, and climate change resources.

I felt the site was interesting to read through, even though the weather is not a specialty of mine. I enjoy keeping track of what is going on currently with the weather but its past and future is not really much of a concern of mine. If you are a weather fanatic then this blog might interest you. Due to the amount of information presented in this blog and the professional means by which it is presented I rate this blog as a 4.
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TWI or (T)ech and (W)eirdness of the (I)nternet for short is (according to the blogs “about” section) a blog that was started in October of this year with the soul aim of filtering the best of tech news from around the net and displaying it in an opinionated format (i.e not just copy and paste) by it’s author, “Maxx”.

The layout of the blog is very well and the fact that the blog is running off WordPress is really well concealed and until I hovered over a link in one of the posts, I was convinced that the system may have been coded from scratch! There are loads of RSS feed’s available and quite some thought has gone into the naming of catagories and tag’s that feature on the site.

As I already said, this site is all about the author delivering his own interpretation of the latest and greatest technology news around. Usually I would turn my nose up at a site like this for the simple reason that I like my technology news to be factual and with an opinionated blog like this, there is always going to be room for bias towards one company/organisation in particular stories. It appears however, that this blog is an exceptional case. There may very well be some bias here and there, but because the author always derives his opinion from supplied quotations you can often understand how they managed to form this opinion and for me, figuring this out is almost as interesting as the news within the posts themselves!

Overall I found the blog to be both informative and interesting to read and even though I read a lot of Tech news sites, I still learned a lot. The blog is also a joy to navigate around and obviously, a lot of time was spent in figuring out exactly how to display the content to the visitors. Lately the author has been encouraging community contributions to the site due to a lack of available time to work on the blog. It will be interesting to see if this idea gets off the ground and if it does, it begs the question, will the style of the content change too dramatically? Only time will tell but for now this is certainly a very entertaining blog and I heartily recommend it to any self-respecting tech savvy person out there!NULL

Upon first glance, Kadomu appears to be a simple weblog with links and commentary on interesting gift ideas. As it turns out, it is exactly that. The site gives a little bit of information about each item, as well as a price and link to purchase it.

The site itself is attractive, using a fairly basic WordPress setup. Previous items may be found in any one of several categories listed in the sidebar.

Reading through the entries about the various gifts, I began to believe that English may not be the author’s first language (an assumption that is strengthened by the Indonesian name of the weblog). The descriptions of each item are usually short and occasionally difficult to understand. While the descriptions themselves may not be incredibly interesting, the gift ideas range from mildly amusing to remarkably strange.

While the author should be given credit for taking the time to locate and point out all of these gifts, there really is not much substance beyond that. The idea of this weblog is good, but the execution is just not there. NULL

When I thought about the title of this blog, I thought this was going to be a site for men to rant about things. I don’t know why, it is just what I thought I would read. Unfortunately I was wrong. When the site loads the header tells us that this site is “Comments, mini-essays, anecdotes and quotations on language, literature, politics, the arts and almost anything else. Some are quite serious but most are not. Updated every two days or so.” Can we be any more straight forward on what to expect?

The blog uses a blogger template. Sure it is one of the less used ones, but I really wish the author would use his own design. The header has a little graphic, but that is it. The rest is standard. Oh yeah, before I forget its that brown flowery background one with the cream color main area.

Well the author doesn’t lie. He really does blog about almost everything. His posts are very long and detailed which I would normally be all for. However I found the posts to be quiet boring. The posts read very monotone like, almost as if Al Gore was writing this blog (please don’t let the author be Al Gore and let Tony be the author’s real name).

After reading through over half of the posts, I realized that this author could not be from the US and was probably from Europe. Little things like colour instead of color tipped me off, and then it made sense for how well written this author is. He definitely had a more strict/formal education than I have and it shows. I was finally happy that I was able to figure something out about this blog.

Overall I don’t know if I could recommend this blog. If you like a blog that has a lot of content, then this might be for you. For me though it just was not catching enough to keep me entertained. The best comparison I have is that this is like that foreign movie that some of us like, and some of us don’t.
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Well, guess what, it’s a blog about sex. The blog contains graphic, not particularly original, slightly titillating descriptions of sexual encounters from a woman’s point of view. How old is this woman? I’m not sure. Where does she live? I don’t know. Is there any purpose to this blog besides the sexual stories? If there is, I can’t tell.

The stories are jumbled and rambling. The author is married but has sexual relationships with other men. I was lost in this blog–I’m not particularly interested in reading about sexual adventures without any narrative framing. Without a context for these encounters, I actually find them to be a turn off. The graphic nature of the encounters are a bit disturbing. I am sure that many people, male and female, will find this material quite compelling. The purpose? Perhaps to detail the author’s sexual adventures and fantasies? Seems likely.

The quality of the writing is adequate. Writing good erotica is quite difficult and this author does little more than a pedestrian job. The lack of character development and context is a serious weakness. The details are what makes any story compelling, even if we know it will end in a sexual encounter. The how and why also matter, not just the what.

The site design is pink and sloppy. The right column contains a random mix of links, Japanese-anime style cartoon drawings of scantily clad women, badges and counters. I can’t make much sense of the author’s method of categorizing links, but most them appear to be sexual in nature.

This blog is not my cup of tea, but if you are looking for simple stories of graphic sexual encounters, you may enjoy it.NULL