The Weblog Review

Why do I get all the hard ones?

Superb site design and navigation…spare and clean, just like I like ’em.

The weblog has fits and starts from October 20 of 2000 to the present, but oh what fits and starts…a few postings in October, a few in December through March and May, and then he really takes off!

The poems are masterful, raw, and filled with emotion. I especially liked the newest from October 20, 2001 called “Nine Inches of Emo”. Here’s a quote from that one:

“my parents call me moody

my shrink calls me depressed

they don’t know the emo heart

that beats within my chest”

Evocative, huh?!!

I’m still trying to figure out the grocery list.

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Tom is probably going think that the reason his site got the review it did is because I am sucking up to him so he won’t go off on TWR on his site. Nope that isn’t it. I would not suck up to Tom unless I really had to in order to live or win lots of money.



The reason Menucha Blog got the best rating there is, is because he is a really good writer. Every post is worth visiting the site for. I started reading his site a long time ago because I found out about Blog You and it links straight to Menucha Blog. I read it, and didn’t think to much of it. Then I talked to Tom about things in general, and guess what, he doesn’t like TWR too much. Oh well, such is life.



So I went back to reading his site, just to see what he would say about our conversation, and it was a little skewed, but that is ok. What I found following that post though, was some very interesting posts. So I read, and read and read some more, and I got hooked.



See there are two types of writers when it comes writing about things on the internet. There are those that try to influence you straight forward, like Zeldman or Evhead, and those that do is subtly. Tom does it very well in the later form.



His design is that of 5 years ago, and that is the way he wants it. He likes it that way and doesn’t care. The best part is, it works! There are other parts of the site other than the weblog which are enjoyable, though not as much as the weblog itself.



Everyone has what he or she would call his or her daily reads. Some vary between different types of weblogs, while others stick to one genre. If this doesn’t fit into your genre, you should make it fit.

Menucha Blog

This site is a News/Link site which has around 10 posters, the links link to articles with topics in the area of politics, goverment relations and some random things that don’t really interest me. What they do is take a part of the article and link the qoute or add a half a sentence introducing it. The content is adult oriented and more specifically targeted to the 20something male that has nothing to do when Jerry Springer is on. I gave this site a 3.0 due to the fact what little content that’s there doesn’t interest me a great deal and because the design could use some help.GuerrillaNews[dot]org

The main thing that struck me about Sarah G was the lack of any sort of background info. I mean, maybe I just couldn’t find it (which would be a problem anyway), but there was a screaming lack of any sort of “about me” page. This isn’t really the kind of blog where everything about it is intuitively obvious, so it would nice to have a page with some information about the author; something for the reader to grasp until enough of the blog has been read for them to feel comfortable.



In that same vein of thought, I found it interesting that she talked about work so much, but made it a point not to reveal what it is she does.



So, we’ll boil this down to its parts: this is the kind of blog I’d definitely find myself reading regularly, if I knew anything about her. I mean, if the blog is just for her friends who already know her, more power to her; but if it is in fact meant for a wider crowd, the blog can’t really stand up as is.Sarah G

Pithy, very pithy.

Weblogs such as this make me cringe in my inadequacy, with my little pathetic weblog carrying only daily life of a mad housewife and beach bum.

Very well written weblog by an astute individual, but not for the easily frustrated or the functional illiterate.

Gritty design that navigates well, with loads of excellent links that flow with the style of “edrants.com”.

The section titled “High School Search Requests” brought back old school memories best left forgotten for me. That’s why I use an alias on the web.

“But if Suzanne is reading this blog (or anyone else for that matter), there’s an e-mail link at the top right-hand corner of the screen.” gave answer to how to get in touch for the “anyone else” (namely Me, who was reading this blog), but I was afraid he would not only bite, but review MY blog(s), or sic “Tom” on me.

The section entitled “German Language Lessons” had me screaming with laughter at the thought of Ed checking his lower anatomy for “doopups”-ness.

Rant on, Ed! You’ve got a new reader…Dr. Mabuse’s House of Fun