When I think of a rudder, I think of the thing at the back of a boat to help steer the boat. So thus rudderless would imply no rudder, or no thing to help steer. This is a very good name for this blog as you will see.
When I first got to rudderless, I was impressed with the clean and crisp design. It looked like a lot of other sites, but still had its own flair. The standard two column layout and the entire thing is centered look is really taking off.
At first glance it seemed to me that there was an excessive amount of writing per post. The author was telling long stories with a lot of details. So I checked out the about page, and found out that there were actually two authors, and one sure enough was a copy editor.
Reading the posts was almost mundane. Yes there were differences between the posts based on topic and who the author was, but aside from big details mentioned in each post, it was almost hard to distinguish one author from the other. Most of the posts are about what is going in their life at that point in time. This can be anything from movies, to people they interact with, to music. Music is one thing that both authors have a serious passion for and it shows in their tastes.
The blog itself was never able to fully capture my attention. The long stories always seemed to have a depressed look on the situation, and the short posts are pretty standard. I don’t know of what the authors could do to have grabbed my attention better, I think it just wasn’t a good fit for me.
Overall this blog has its good points, and has its bad points. I was not able to connect with the authors for whatever reason, but I don’t expect to connect with every author. I would recommend checking this blog to see if you enjoy it. Don’t base your opinion on this blog without even giving it a chance. You might be surprised. rudderless.org