My first impression upon visiting Nick’s Domain was a pretty gosh darn good one. Blogspot site (one of the better templates) and I immediatley saw on the left side a huge archive section, which I think is so important to any blog.
I pride myself on the fact that every blog I review I read word for word, no matter how long it is, or how long it takes to review it. Usually, the longer the blog, the higher the score (from me). I am a ‘content’ reviewer. I don’t care about how many plug-ins or how much time you spent on design, I like to read a good journal. Well Nick has written a lot, for a pretty long time, and I have to say, I wish he hadn’t, because what I read, just plain disturbed me.
Nicks Domain starts out innocently enough, for a month or so it even toys with becoming a group log. The author ends that and begins going solo with the posts. He seems to obsess throughout the blog on wether people think he is ‘smart’ or not. The author posts incessantly about his personal conflict on wether he is a heterosexual, which would be a great study on someones thoughts about their own sexuality, if in the way the author wrote it did not completley turn me off this blog. There is a section where the author questions himself (quite brutally at times-2/9/02) on many subjects, which on face value seems like a fantastic idea for a diary or journal, but after reading what I did, I wish I hadn’t. Cause I plain found it disturbing. I gave the author some points for that method of writing though, introspection is sometimes a good thing in a journal. Sometimes. The author seems to go out of his way to lash out at his friends.
Than the author meets Allie (the internet girlfriend). I’m guessing he met her on the internet, and eventually the two meet twice. Once in D.C. (where the author lives) and once again in Pittsburgh, where Allie lives. They seem to hit it off on the net, and than they meet each other, and after that things seem to go sour. Than this weblog becomes an ‘all about Allie’ weblog. The author posts numerous times about how his girlfriend is late to internet chats or doesn’t show up at all. (or dates as he calls them). As a matter of fact, for the last two or three months of the blog, all the author focuses on is Allie. Constantly. And that kind of seems weird. (Allie is not reciprocating here). The author even mentions how he has an ‘Allie’ shrine in his room on the bulletin board. Well, Allie dumps him. And thats all you read about for the last month (or two) of this blog. Its just plain weird.
There aren’t any bonuses to this site, no ‘about’ section, just a weblog with archives and links to the weblogs this author reads on a regular basis.
The author’s parents constantly mention to him that he is spending way to much time on the internet. I agree with Mom and Dad. The author needs to unplug his computer for awhile and get outside or something.
Half a star. If you want a guide on how not to conduct yourself in the weblog community read Nick’s Domain, read it from day one like I did. This is pretty weird stuff. Nick’s Domain