Month: February 2002

From the minute you enter this site it is evident that Daisey is an artist. The site is easy to look at with a very nice, original colour scheme. The page is packed with the things that daisey does, and the blog only forms part of the whole, but its easy enough to find. I am not reviewing the whole site, only the blog, so here goes.

Daiseys weblog is a diary of her day to day life, there isnt a post every day but the seamless style of her writing carries you along without noticing the odd gap here and there. Daisey is a very happy person and its infectious, I found myself laughing along with her. I got a real sense of what this girl is all about, but there is also a bio to fill in any gaps you may have, although I would urge you to read the entries first. This is a site written by an artist and it comes across in her use of words, and the way she describes the things in her life. I have read lots of diary blogs and usually find them quite introspective and boring, but this is different, I could read this for hours and not get tired.

As I mentioned in the preamble this site is very easy to look at, the design works well with the style of the writing, both perfectly reflecting the writers personality.. All the links work, and are well worth following. The posts are archived daily, but you can find all the previous posts in an easy to navigate archive system. Some of the links open pop-up windows, and the browser re-sets to the top of the page which is a little annoying, but that doesnt detract from what is a very nicely laid out site.

All things considered I gave this site a 4. This isnt ground breaking stuff, but its extremely well designed and very well written. If you are feeling in need of cheering up this girls lust for life will carry you along. Well worth bookmarking, its one I will be visiting again.

[daisey]

At first I wasn’t sure what to expect from “naked thoughts” except your average blog where the writer posts about what they did that say, little observations on the way to the store or what stupid thing someone said. To my surprise, I found a pretty good weblog here.

Tiara is from Indonesia and English is a second language for her, which I learned through one of her posts. She writes English pretty well and even though the writing doesn’t flow, you’re still able to understand her pretty well. I liked that she was expressive in her writing and especially in a language that’s not her primary language. She doesn’t write about what she’s done that day, or what really annoys her like your regular weblog, but more about things that have meaning to her such as poems, emails that have substance to them or just what she’s feeling and thinking about a particular person or situation.

I got a bit confused with getting around this site, especially with the archives when I was looking for her archives. She has a drop down menu which first contains all regular areas of a site, FAQ, bio, archives, etc. However there are also links below, which change the drop down menu, which I didn’t get for a while. This needs to be more organized a bit. I like the main graphic on the site that contains the title; makes for an interesting image.

Overall this is a pretty good site. There’s stuff I like and don’t like about it, but mostly what makes this site strong is the writing and Tiara’s ability to express herself well through a language that’s not easy to learn or speak. A definitely visit if you want to read a blog with some meaning.naked thoughts

I had to do a little digging of my own to figure out exactly how this site worked before jumping into the actual weblog.



Random quotes at the top of the screen, and alternating pictures on the left hand side of the site are an interesting touch to this site.



Appearance wise, parts of the navigation portion of the site make absolutely no sense at all, though. The “me” section isn’t an “about” section, but a link to a couple different weblog type sections.



Finally, my thoughts on the reason I visited this site – the weblog. I couldn’t read it. I tried, but I just couldn’t get into it. There are four different weblogs to chooce from off of the ../journal.html site, and I’m still confused as to which one is the main one. The only time I felt like I really learned about the writer was on the occassional Friday when five personal questions were answered.



It looks like quite a popular site, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this site to a stranger. However, people that know that author and actually have an idea of what her personality is like may have a better understanding of this weblog.:::fresh chicky:::

I’ve seen True Love a hundred times before. Small font. Dark background. Punctuation used to convey emotion. Spelling error on the masthead image. Cursors that change when they pass over a link and lose their meaning.



I’ve seen it before, and chances are that you’ve seen it before as well. Welcome to another girlie blog.



This one’s obsession: currently it’s Hoobastank, but I’m too old and uncool to know who they are or why I should get excited about them. But then I am 22.



The site is ruled by a commercialised girl-power; links to online surveys to see which Buffy girl you would be pepper the site like sparkle on a high school textbook.



You can’t deny that the writer is enthusiastic, especially about the Internet. Maybe in four years time a metamorphosis will somehow take place turning True Love into bluishorange, and I’m not in a position to tell.



I’d recommend this site to two kinds of people: teen girls, and 40 year old men wanting to get up to speed on teen girl mentality before pretending to be a 16 year old ICQ chick.

True Love

Van 46’s mission statement is very simple: this is where Jefe (the site’s owner) posts his photographs and links to news articles. And that’s about it.



The photography is reasonably interesting; even if it isn’t something you particularly enjoy at least most of it is hosted at photo.net, arguably the best photography resource on the internet today.



Linking to news articles and sites of interests is not the site’s strength, and is the kind of activity best left to community message boards like Metafilter. It is my personal opinion that the site would be far more successful if it was devoted entirely to photography: a weblog is a personal creation, and should concentrate on delivering a piece of the blogger’s world to the internet for general consumption.



The camera was invented to allow people to see the world by another’s perspective; links to the news does not offer this possibility.The Van 46