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As much as I try to think of something to say about metafocker, the only thing I can come up with is “mediocre”. Nothing about it is really that interesting. And it doesn’t even look that good.



The content is average. This guy talks at length about terrorism, but doesn’t seem to have an informed stance on it at all. Yeah, conceded, nearly everyone is talking about terrorism and Bin Laden and nukes and Anthrax, but this guy doesn’t even have a valid argument or point to establish. I was a tad bit irked by what he had to say about the people who oppose bombing Afghanistan, but I digress.



Anything else he has to say, about mediocre mainstream radio stations or sports groups or any other topic, is marginal as well. It isn’t poorly written, for lack of a better excuse, but it’s superficial. It isn’t thought-provoking. I honestly don’t see the point in most of what he says. Normally, I would believe that better writing skills could help this weblogger, but here I would suggest better thinking skills.



The design is average. The navigation is muddled; I couldn’t tell the site navigation from the links from the web rings. The font is Verdana. Unoriginal, basically.



Normally, I would list the merits of the blog here. But there really aren’t any. Props for the lack of toggle case, use of web-ebonics, and emoticons is about the only positive thing I can come up with. metafocker.com

This weblog was a thoroughly enjoyable read. His entries are easy to read and varied — how he feels about his new girlfriend and ex-girlfriend, movies, current events, finding long lost classmates. He writes with feeling, a great sense of humor and just the right amount of anger in some cases (if there is such as thing as the “right amount”). My only criticism about the entries is that he doesn’t update very often. His last post is dated Oct. 31.



His layout is plain and simple, which is a good fit with his writing style. The site is also very easy to navigate.



Other areas of the site include a section where he posts song lyrics, quotes from books and other tidbits and another that has photos of Thailand and Singapore, which are awesome.



Although there’s nothing overly extraordinary about this weblog, it’s always a pleasure to read something that’s well-written by someone who has something to say.blackcoffee

The camel walking by the pyramids was interesting, and belied a maturity to the design of the site that would quickly be dispelled by the content.



Scared Ducky is the site of a 15 year old girl named Ellen (she may be 16 by now; it said her birthday was October 25th.) I found this on her “about page,” which as anyone who reads my reviews will know, means a lot. She writes well about herself, and it was a glimpse into my own adolescence reading her dreams, wishes, and aspirations. Looking back, they seem so trite, but when you’re a teenager, they’re so real you can taste them. Ellen conveys this through her words.



The content of the rest of the site is what I would consider typical 15 year old girl. Well written, mature at times, but falling back into the pettiness that accompanies being a teenager. The entire ordeal with some problems between her and another site’s author took up far too much time, space, and energy in my opinion, but that’s what being a teenager is all about. It is during the teen years that we learn to deal with balance.



The design is solid; the archives easy to find, the links are all laid out nicely, clearly, and concisely on the left margin. The content is clearly written, and easy to understand.



I recommend this site to anyone wanting to take a look into the mind of a 15 year old high school girl, to either see what makes her tick, or to be reminded of what it was like to be a teenager.

Scared Ducky

Trippy blog. I don’t think anyone would really understand this site unless there wasn’t an “about” page to explain and give background about who the writer is. Stand, the author is a paranoid schizophrenia and manic depressive guy living in the East Bay of California.



A lot of what he writes is sort of out of nowhere and doesn’t all quite make sense, but it’s nice that when he knows he’s not quite being clear, he’ll post later what was going on:



“Okay, I had another full-blown episode (if you couldn’t tell by my last post). The angels in my head got me to believe that I had been a part of the rapture, and that I was walking around in heaven, only it just looked like earth… So I was basically walking around naked for like an hour asking people if they had any spare clothes. Wild, huh?”



Stand tends to refer to God and other religious references in his writing and discuss episodes he has or about past experiences.



Layout is okay. He’ll post a photo once in a while and he has little photos along the side of his blog.



I prefer to read sites where the posts tend to make more sense and are more connected, but this site makes for an interesting read. H13.com – Once Madness Was Here

Internet Gossip. Does such a thing exist? Seriously everyone growing up remembers the he-said she-said rumors that always went around. Of course, we believed most of them even though we knew it was just gossip. Even today in our everyday lives we face gossip. So why wouldn’t it exist on the internet?



It does. Internet Gossip is a site for everyone with a weblog to read up on the gossip of the e/n scene. Gossip ranges from “Why People Buy Camgirls Stuff” to flat out insults and wars with big sites. The best way to describe IG is to think of a group of Jr. High kids who are very popular and have their noses in everything and have a disorder where they must talk every second of every minute. The posts are great. They are nothing short of entertaining to say the least.



The best part of Internet Gossip, to me, is that it is what the name of the site says it is. Gossip. Some of it is true, some of it is false. Some of it is made up for pure entertainment. But it is all gossip.



The design of the IG is very clean and simple. The back end uses a program called php-nuke to allow for registered users and comments and what not. There isn’t anything flashy about the design which is nice. Another bonus of IG is that even though it is a big site in the e/n world, there aren’t any annoying links-as-ads that I found. My guess is the reason for this is because the authors don’t care about making money off of their site, they just want to post the gossip.



Overall if you are looking for a new site to get hooked on, here is one for you. If you are bored and you have already read all of your news sites and you are sick of playing online games, check this site out. If you have read all of your weblogs and still are craving more, come to IG. You will not be let down.Internet Gossip