The Weblog Review

This is just your average weblog. Nothing too fancy. I had a hard time figuring out the navigation for the site. It happens to be these little icons at the top of the actual weblog. I liked the James Dean image at the top. Her posts recently are all about her other projects that are at another website. Lots of linkage to her other site. Her bio section even links to another site! Some of her posts made me laugh, while others did nothing. She updates quiet frequently which is a good thing for most. SUCKATASH

Toddshot has strengths and then some more weaknesses. Unfortunately it has some kind of CSS design thing going on, so on my screen some of those side links are obscured – probably lack of standards support in IE5.5 though.



It is nice to look at though.



The blogging style of the author is mainly short and sweet, which can be a curse or a blessing. It lends things a certain casual feel and reading the weblog is some light relief. However, at times it means it lacks substance and it’s a bit easy just to skim read.



Todd does make up for this, though, with some excellent reviews, which are thoroughly written if sparse.



Toddshot: Not to be taken in large doses, or too seriously. Good if that’s your kind of thing – but not especially mine.toddshot

This site is just another one of your average run of the mill weblogs. Posts about things going on in his (I hope that the button monkey is male) life and what not. Work, play all seem to be one in the same.



What I really liked about the site wasn’t so much the weblog, but the artistic stuff. The drawings and the photos are just amazing. Pure talent in that department.ButtonMonkey

Well while going through the site I found two mentions of the weblog review. The first one said that he was waiting for his review and the second one said:

i signed up for this weblog review today, so i better get some type of a good one or i will hunt down the little fucker and well…..um…..thank him?



So the dilemma has begun. Do I or do I not give this guy a good review. Do I give him a good ranking? What to do…



Lets start with the design. There is this site that I reviewed not too long ago called ackpth that looks very similar in design. both sites just use black and white and gray. I do like the two column layout of this site better than just the one column layout.



Next we have the posts. First post I read I did not like. Then I started reading the achieves (where I found the mentions of this site) and I read a post that I really liked. He said:

i know some of you are going to stop linking me after reading this, and thats fine. i expected that.

to which I just kept on reading. That one line caught my attention and made me want to figure out if there were any other posts that I might want to not link him for.



Overall a really good site with content that is meaningful. He doesn’t care if he pisses you off in the process of his posts because he realizes they are his posts.



So I guess now comes the part were I decide what to give him for a ranking. The review is a good one, but should I give him a bad ranking just to throw a curve ball and make him think I didn’t enjoy the site? Nope. Cause I did enjoy reading the site and I hope you will too.aphony

Really good news/links site. Scott goes out and finds very amusing stories and then posts his take on it. My personal favorite is a post from July 16th about skin color cream. He quotes a Dr. Suess book as his little take on things. Design of the site is really good and works well for him. But the key to this site is his spin on the stories.Xkot’s Random Access Log