Dave’s Guide to the Best of the Web is a pretty straight forward title and fits perfectly to his very straight forward blog of sharing some of the best websites he’s found. Easy enough, right? Let’s see if I agree.
I immediately noticed that Dave’s Guide to the Best of the Web has only just started on July 8th of this year, making this site extremely new.
The first few entries were sites I’ve been familiar with for a long time – Skype, Google Maps, Wikipedia, Napster, etc. These are all tools and URLs that have been around the web several times and don’t really have anything new and improved to offer. With these links, the author just gives readers information on what the program/tool/etc. actually is and what it actually does.
I don’t really understand the point of this site. Is it just to have any popular technology, like the links to Apple or ASP.net, linked in one general location? Dave doesn’t make much of attempt to give a review of any product, but instead chooses to be very neutral in its descriptions. Since the site is called Dave’s Guide to the Best of the Web, we automatically assume that these are the best links ever. And maybe they were a few years ago.
The layout is simple and easy to click through by various categories or date. The “about the author†section reveals very little about the site. Readers also have the option to recommend a website to Dave.
I don’t get the site or how it’s a new revelation to the blogging world, but the author does write very well in his descriptions. Punctuation, grammar, spelling, etc. all seems right on the money, and for me, that’s the biggest redeeming quality I could find
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