Jamesyboy has a blog named “The Future’s Bright……” and it’s busier than a busy freeway, something you see on television like, say, in Los Angeles.
Upon coming to the site, you have no idea what’s going on. What do I do? Where do I look? Look at all this stuff! There are links and photos and video links and forums and news feeds and more links and thumbnail photos of friends and blogrolls, blog rings, whew, I’m exhausted just relaying it all to you. The blog must scroll down a half a mile with all this stuff, stuff, STUFF! Jamesyboy has included a link (and/or photo) of everything he’s ever encountered in his life. Thank God he was born in 1978, otherwise there would only be more links. (I kid.) There’s a nice smiling photo of Jamesyboy in the upper left corner, so I started there.
Jamesyboy is from Reading, England. He likes music and posts some really cool music videos on his site. In fact, from what I could tell, his very first 2 posts from August 2003 were just that–video clips. I suppose they were clips he liked at the time. I quite enjoyed them as well. Recently, he’s given all his posts the name of the So-and-So Experience, as in “The GMail Experience” or “The Improving Fitness Experience.” You learn about his day to day life, commuting to and from work, his friends, their weddings and what it’s like to be Jamesyboy in Reading. While not earth-shattering by any means, I love to get slices of life such as this. And, yes, I suppose all the hundreds of thousands (I exaggerate for effect) of links he has up and down both sides of his blog ARE part of who he is.
Now if Jamesyboy would only ditch about three-fourths of the links/photos on his page, we could find his archives and read about him more thoroughly. I give his site a 2. Lose the clutter, gain a reader!
The Future’s Bright