iPodbloggers has lots of squares, in varying shades of blue. It also has lots of ads, in varying shades of sod-off-and-stop-trying-to-sell-me-stuff. There are also several Flash animations of some kind. I don’t know what they are, because Flashblock kills the damn things nicely. If you’re using Firefox, go and get Flashblock now. If you are using IE, go and get your brain looked at because it appears to be malfunctioning.
Despite all of this I read on. The postings include articles on different iPod models, services available for iPodders, podcasting, and MORE BLOODY ADS. Aside from the ads I would have to say that the content is interesting if you have an iPod, or are thinking of buying one, and want to get the most out of it.
The colours are well chosen, I think, because they work well with all the photos of iPods, and that’s all I’m going to say about the ad-laden design.
In addition to the articles iPodbloggers also gives you RSS feeds of Ebay listings containing iPods, which is pretty cool, and – in case I haven’t mentioned it already – a tonne of ads. What a bonus.
If iPods are your thing and you have a high ad-tolerance this will probably be of interest.
Finally, to scoring. Let’s start with a score of three, which of course represents your average crappy blog. Take off three for all the ads, and unnecessary use of Flash animations, which gives us a score of zero. Next add one point for the potentially useful content, and another half-point for the RSS feed idea, giving a grand total of 1.5 points. Possibly I am being too generous.
Suddenly my brain slips a gear and I find myself giving iPodbloggers extra points for having a well-defined topic and not being just another damn personal weblog.NULL