Month: March 2002

Elegant, un-cluttered, easy to read, very blue. These were my first impressions of marcneedham.com. The design here really is first rate,
and a quick glance at the source code confirms that there is more javascript here than you could shake a stick at. A particularly large stick.
Marc is looking for work, and by God, if there are any potential employers out there, you need to contact this man. Right this instant. Go on!

On to the content then, and I’ll sum it up for you like this: I’ve never met
this man before in my life. But after visiting his site, I like him very much.
Marc’s blog is personal without alienating his audience, peppered
with an excellent standard of links. They made me laugh out loud on
several occasions, and believe me, that’s no easy feat. Marc’s a funny
guy. He’s also infuriatingly cute (but spoken for. Sorry ladies.)

Often with a personal site like this, I find I have no real interest in flicking
through picture galleries. But after reading Marc’s biography, I felt
obligated to view his pictures. I actually wanted to know more about
his life, and there’s no higher praise than that for a personal weblog.

I won’t spoil it for you by revealing any more details. But if you’re looking to
spend some pleasurable time learning about a man you’ve never
met before, I wholeheartedly recommend marcneedham.com.
And if you’re an employer looking for a talented web developer, your
search ends here. Excellent stuff.MarcBlog

Over 20 different high school girls have come together to create and constantly update a site about their favorite actor: Orlando Bloom.



The design is an attempt to be unique, as the scroll bar is on the left hand side of the screen. The graphics are perfect for the purpose of the site.



I had no idea who Orlando was, but soon found out he played a big role in Lord Of The Rings. The girls posting to this site apparently think he’s the best thing since sliced bread.



Some of the different girls that submit to the website use the words: “another pointless post” in their entries, and I couldn’t agree more.



The weblog is used as a message board for the members to post trivial things about Orlando – how cute he was in this movie, or how hot he looked on the cover of December’s issue of GQ.



It’s not exactly something that’s entertaining or easy to follow unless you’re part of the posting members of this weblog.Obsessin’ Over Orli

Troubled Diva is not the celebrity weblog of Mariah Carey. No, it’s far more interesting than that.



Instead, this is the weblog of Mike Atkinson, a 40 year old Brit, who has a light sense of humour and the ability to share it with the world. It’s not often that such a thing happens.



Another feature of the site is the “40 in 40 Days” project, a kind of midlife crisis that resulted in reasoned and introspective literary output instead of the purchase of a big red car. It’s a series of short, highly personal stories written as the author approached his 40th.



If you’re tired of vitriolic outbursts, teenie boppers, and hackers with unpronouncable aliases, pay a visit to this happy-go-lucky diva.



A refreshing change, and worthy of a full site instead of the over-subscribed blogspot program.troubled diva

An Irish viewpoint and communist symbolism. These are two things that would make an ordinary weblog unique, yet selfishly both appear on Tom Cosgrave’s website.



Tom’s site offers everything you could want of a good weblog: an original perspective, a clear design, and a good writing style. And with archives stretching back to April of 2000, there’s plenty o’ content, if you’ll excuse the atrocious pun.



As an experiment, I looked back at the very early days of the site. Call it research if you will, but I consider this part of an ongoing experiment: to see if, given time, a weblog can truly mature. And it looks like here, at least, it can. The writing style has improved gradually with time, it has been refined and bettered with each rotation of the Earth, and it is good to see. It should also be encouraging for the countless websites I have disparaged at TWR: give it time and you will all get better. Maybe.



There’s no doubting it, Tom is a very talented person. The communism symbolism that decorates the site is very effective, and the fact that it is empty symbolism will appease over-serious readers. The avoidance of an obvious and inherently cliche’d Irish-inspired design is also a pleasant surprise; the blog would have been entirely less palatable if it had been in black and white or all green.tomcosgrave.com

This is the first site I have come across that is entirely devoted to the art of poetry.



That’s only because I’ve never had a reason to search out such a site in the past, but that’s no reason not to visit.



There is a grand amount of content here, from audio links to poetry, to poetry-related news articles and commentary.



The audio capabilities of the site are surely its unique selling point. A large number of texts can be listened to, and since poetry is far more rhythmic than ordinary writing, the option to listen is a very useful, and important one.



I am not in a position to comment on the quality of the poetry on the site – it is far too subjective a matter, even compared to critiquing weblogs.



The site is cleanly designed and laid-out, and should be a priority visit for all poetry enthusiasts. An excellent resource.Laurable’s Poetry Weblog