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The design at Mental Masturbation was somewhat trite, but clean and interesting. Everything worked, which is a plus, and the site was quite easy to navigate.



The writing was impressive. Interesting commentary peppered with nifty links: everything a growing blog reader needs.



A lot of blogs tend to focus heavily on their friends as an audience, and if this is their intention, more power to them. This site does lean a bit toward that direction, but what struck me is how the author can be so personal, yet simultaneously inviting.



I definitely enjoyed by time at Mental Masturbation, and I intend to return quite regularly. I humbly suggest the same to others, as it’s a fine use of time.

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White text on a black background. Strike one. Not only because it’s hard on the eyes, but because it’s just plain boring. Still, I ventured on, but much to my dismay, the content of the site wasn’t much better. When you look up “trite, whiny teenage girl’s weblog” in the dictionary, this is what you find. It isn’t bad, but if i jumped blindly into any Diaryland or Geocities teenage webring, i’m sure I could find 20 websites strikingly similar to it. I’m sure this girl’s friends enjoy reading this, but I’ll have to pass. Besides the fact that it isn’t particularly creative, it isn’t innovative, nor is it even engaging. The design is ultraminimal. Actually, scratch that. It’s incredibly plain. Here’s one of the more interesting excerpts:



“i got this *gasp* $180 skirt.

i don’t know what possessed me, but i had to get it. mommy helped me, but it was so worth it.”



I guess if you’re really into other people’s shopping finds and school days, this could be your cup of tea. For everyone else, it isn’t worth the effort it takes to read the text and smiley faces every other sentence.Persnickety

Let me start by saying, what expectations can you have when you go to a site named “what logic?” Probably you expect something slightly far out and illogical.



Well these two are the exception; their site is very down to earth and true. Although some of the posts make you think, “golly-gee-I-really-wanted-to-know-that,” most of them are humorous and/or fun to read. Brian and Jack, the two loggers seem to be very down to earth and I like that in a person. Right now there is only ten or so logs but this seems like a really good up and coming site.



This site is probably the first site that made a red color-scheme look good. His layout is great; he did not overcrowd the main page with links and other junk, but instead put it on another page. This makes the front page easy for the eyes to look at.



This would definitely be a 5-point site if they would make the logs more in depth, but so far it looks great.



>>Dan

what logic?

Sleeping In Flight was a different type of weblog than one might be used to. Abandoning the traditional Blogger-style dated entries, the author of this site has compiled an ongoing page-by-page collage of “scrapbook” entries.

I say “scrapbook” because I felt as if I was looking at pieces of the author’s mind, cut out and pasted into the website. This was a very refreshing manner of doing things. Each entry had a picture to click on, taking you to the next entry. Sometimes, you would find short stories and pictures. Other times you might find only a drawing or some seemingly random thoughts. Whatever the case, the author effectively uses this medium to portray emotions, feelngs, ideas, and thoughts.

One drawback to this style of weblog is that you lose some basic navigation capabilities. If I wanted to go back to a certain page I thought was good, I would have to have remembered to bookmark it the first time. Otherwise, I’m left clicking through dozens of pages until I find it. This was the one obvious drawback, and is the only reason this site is not a 5.0.

The design was simple, and the pictures, drawings, and graphics were well done. They often fit the mood of the page, and the site in general, perfectly.

Sleeping In Flight is absolutely worth a look, if for the unique approach alone. The writing and the thoughts that it conjured up were well worth the visit too.sleeping in flight

The graphics and color scheme of this

site are the first things that really

grabbed me. “ooh, slick” were the words

of my internal monologue. Purple,

shadows, blackness, mmmmmm. And the

purple-tinted graphic of an attractive

woman on the side – nice.



My interest was aroused.



Then I started reading. The very first

line read, “need weed”. Easy to

identify with that. Then I was

immediately assaulted by the chronic (no

pun intended) misspellings, aol-esque

abbreviations (2 for “to”, & for “and”,

4 for “for”, u for “you”, you get the

idea), and general abuse of the english

language. My interest fizzled and I

developed a headache.



It’s a shame too because the author

seems very passionate and worth knowing.

The skinny white text on the black

background burns my retinas. The “posted

at” color is much too dark to be read on

the black background.



In a sentence: An otherwise fascinating

weblog crippled by poor use of language

and poor font/background choice.



fin.Allegra’s Strange World – ShadowedChild