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I knew right away what I was going to get with this blog by its name. Women’s Bioethics Blog is a pretty self explanatory name. For those of you who haven’t guess what this blog is about, let me give you another clue: it’s about women and it’s about bioethics and it’s all in a blog format. Oh and for those of you who don’t know what bioethics means: The study of the ethical and moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.

When I first got to the site I saw a pretty standard blogger template with a customized header. Finally someone got the fact that you can actually modify the blogger templates for your own needs. The blog is kept minimal so that you focus on the content. By this I mean that she doesn’t have all the hundreds of things in the side bar; instead there are just links, previous posts, and archives. At the bottom of the page she has a couple of other things, but nothing out of the ordinary for a blogger.

The posts are a bit to take in if you are not familiar with or interested in this topic. Being a sociology minor, I found a lot of her posts insightful and wish it was around while I was in class. While the posts themselves seem to jump around a bunch from topic to topic, there is the underlying principle of women’s bioethics.

This blog gets 4.25 from me because it has stayed its course. I was afraid this was going to be another advertising blog, but thankfully it was not. The posts are informative and some are very interesting. Personally I cannot see myself looking at this blog every day, but I now have a good tool in my toolbox for when I need to brush up on women’s issues. I suggest everyone check this blog out at least once so they can learn something they didn’t know already.
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Black marks on wood pulp… I was thrown for a loop when I read the name of this site. I was not sure what to expect. When I finally got the site to load, it had a deep red background with a very classy look. And I still didn’t have a clue what the site would be in regards too. I started taking my general glance down the site and noticed a few things: at the top there is a picture of books and on the side bar the author has posted the book he is currently reading.

I began reading through the posts. The author posts regularly and enjoys blogging. The site is a personal site that talks about many things with the majority of posts being about different books he is reading or books he would like to own/read. He spent numerous posts talking about the Penguin collection that he really hopes to purchase in the near future. The archives take a while to get to because you have to move through them by the month using his calendar option on the side bar.

The site is laid out in a 2 column style and has a classy burgundy color background, with white and yellow text. The font is easy to read and there is not a huge contrast of colors on the site. My only concern with the design of the site was the time it took to load. I am on a cable modem connection and the site took well over 20 seconds to load. I can only imagine what it would have been like on my 14k dial up connection.

Overall the site was nice. It was not offensive just provided the reader with thoughts or the author. I feel the site is a personal site and would appeal to the author’s friends or family. I did enjoy reviewing the site, I felt connected to the author due to the detail in the writings. I rate this site as a 3.75.
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The first thing I read is how she gets annoyed when people say she is pretty. So I’ll start the review by saying – honk honk, you’re hot. Deal with it. Girl blogs are great aren’t they? They are so much more honest and open than us blokes and Majorie’s blog is no exception. She agonizes and articulates, pains and postulates. We see a smile in her social photos, but mostly she complains a lot. In a good, philosophical way, that is.

Her profile surprises me by being close to my own as she has great taste in music and activities and a questioning nature. Her posts delve into her present emotional states and uninhibited, she tells us about her innermost ponderings. She has a great writing style and at the same moment she berates herself for being inadequate, she does it so poetically and intelligently it leaves you confused. She tells us also about her college life, the parties, the boys, the hangovers, the good times.

The design is pretty well a straight blogger template we’ve all come to know and love and doesn’t annoy me too much. One post is filled with photos, while the next is full of stream-of-consiousness text, it really depends on her state of mind I guess.

Staying awake to chase a dream is a non-thematic personal rambling of a young girl finding herself through her friends, her thoughts and her lifestyle and makes entertaining reading. NULL

After reading the first two months of archives on this site, I was honestly lost. The only thing that kept me coming back for me would have to be the amazing photography that fills a good number of posts on this site.

Bob’s BarnaBlog is hosted by Blogger, and uses one of the fine packaged Blogger templates. There’s some sort of issue with the alignment, though. With this standard two-column layout, I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the main column’s content before I can see what type of information is housed in the sidebar.

The posts come very frequently, often with multiple posts in one day. That aspect does give readers a reason to continue visiting this site.

After the first few months of blogging, the author finally decides to stray from the regular posts of sharing photos and artwork. In these entries, it’s hard to dictate if it’s the writer actually posting about the day’s events or a story from the past, or if it’s a work of fiction the author just wants to publish somewhere. There’s not a place to learn anything about the author of this site, which only leads us to speculate who is writing everything that’s being published here.

The writing style of the site is hard to pin to one style. It’s a thick writing style that I find hard to chew through if you’re just looking for a casual weblog to read from time to time. The substance is what I would call profound, but it’s hard to decipher exactly what is being written.

In an April 2005 post, the “members of the bob’sbarnablog editorial team” are wondering why they don’t have much of a readership of their weblog. The lack of clarification and the downright confusing posts would be my explanation to that conundrum.
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I was a little confused when I first visited this blog. I couldn’t figure out if the blog belonged to Curiosa or Wildchild. When I clicked on the links to their profiles I could only find out a bit of info about Curiosa. Apparently she lives in Sweden but is American. No mention of where she grew up or how she ended up in Sweden, at least none that I could find. The blog seems to start off in the beginning about dating in Sweden but sort of loses direction after a few posts. Some of the posts are in Swedish so I couldn’t understand them at all. If you speak Swedish maybe you can get more out of them then I did.

The blog is a basic blogger template, nothing fancy but has some links down one side to the archives, favorite posts, and links to other blogs. There are a few links to some blog tools but that’s about it as far as extras go.

This blog wasn’t bad and I did enjoy some of the posts and pictures but it didn’t really capture my attention or make me want to dig deeper into the archives although I did so I could be fair in my assessment.

I give this blog a 2.75 rating because it lacks originality. Maybe if the author or authors gave a bit more info on themselves I might get more of a connection with the posts.NULL