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When I read the blog’s name, I have to admit, I smiled. There’s just something about the word “unfurl” that gives me this warm feeling and splits my face into a grin. Anyway, the world is unfurling, or rather, it already unfurled. Thus, I need to catch up.

First impressions. Layout is wonderful. Due to slow internet connection, all I saw at first was the blue background and the hard-to-read black font on it. It made my gut clench. I find it very hard to enjoy reading blogs where the fonts are barely readable. Lucky for me, this one eventually loaded and the nice layout greeted me.


The entries themselves, I must say, were a bit mediocre to my taste. Not that it’s bad. No. It was just bland. Kudos though for the nice spelling and grammar. With all the blogs abounding in cyberspace, a lot of these are usually written in bad English. So, entries are not excessively funny but they do get straight to the point and are quite interesting.

As I said above, I find the layout wonderful. A picture or two can usually be found within each entry and pictures are good. These ones, anyway.

Overall, I suggest a visit from everyone. Who knows, you might find the entries captivating and end up being hooked yourselves.World Unfurled

The first thing that I noticed as I arrived to The Other blog was the layout. Usually, it’s not the first thing I notice, and if it is, that’s bad. This blog was quite the contrary. Just on the basis of the warm brown hues of the background, I was compelled to read more. That’s when I looked at the header. “The Other Blog: …of coming to terms and coming out.” This, of course, could only mean one thing, and I was interested. Having several gay and lesbian friends, and being bisexual myself, I knew right away that this was a blog that was going to interest me.

As I read the sidebar (first, as is my habit when I visit blogs: read the static content before the transitional), I learned some things about the author. She’s 26, bisexual, and lives in Europe with her fiance and two cats. She’s mostly in the closet still, which is why this is “The Other Blog” and not “The Main Blog”. I know that some of the people close to me would probably be a little awkward if they knew my situation, so I can relate to what she’s dealing with. The sidebar directs me to read the older posts, and as I do, I realize more and more how much I can relate with her blog. Post after post, sounding incredibly familiar and understandable. I’m hooked.

The content is deep. The posts are long and plentiful, and quite descript. She assigns nicknames to the people involved in her story as it churns, as to protect their anonymity. (The explanation of each person is explained in her sidebar.) Brilliantly detailed and drawn together quite well, I felt myself getting fully attached to many of the posts.

Overall, this is a very good blog. I wouldn’t suggest everyone read it, because I know there are several close-minded people in the world who look down on this sort of “decision”, but for anyone who is wise enough to look past the normal and see into an area that often goes unexplored (for fear of ridicule), this blog is an absolute must. If you’re against bisexuality you’re obviously not going to like it, since that’s the whole point of the blog. I myself will most likely be making several return visits.NULL

This has to get top honors for being one of the most creative descriptions for a blog. Seems like this guy has a sense of humor – or does he really? I read the ‘About Me’ section on the side bar first – astrophysicist, yachtsman, television presenter … not! Seems this guy Dave really must have a sense of humor. I almost believed he really was all those things. It continues, “By day, I live by the seaside, play cricket for a Norfolk village side … and have had a couple of minor books published.” Can I have your life?

The actual posts themselves were very well written. You’re a parachutist too? God, this is making me feel pretty inadequate! But this is a review, so … well written and interesting. The posts are written in such a way that we get some insight into the authors’ personality. ‘Words’ really do seem to play an important part in his life, as does the battle between British and American English! There were a variety of topics, some humorous, some serious and Dave seems to an equal mastery of both. He has the rare ability to make everything seem like an interesting story. Another plus is that the posts aren’t too long.

The blog was easy to navigate with the use of a two column blogspot layout. The design integrates very well with your theme of cricket, with the picture in the header and the picture of you on the sidebar. Nice use of various shades of green in the color scheme.

Overall, this blog is definitely a good read. Going through it, I felt like I was getting to learn more about the author, who I suspect is secretly a Jedi Knight in training. But I’m still left wondering how “life is an elaborate metaphor for cricket” as stated in his title.
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Upon first glimpse at this site I found it evident that it wasn’t so much a creative writing blog as it was musings on life and what’s going on in the world (Intelligent Design Creationism, Star Wars, quantum mechanics, et cetera are some topics discussed) with a slight creative edge.

This blog seems to be more commentary on different things and multi-part posts than anything else. There’s nothing wrong with this; in fact, I find it a nice change from the mundane. Moreover they’re interesting. Even though I don’t particularly care what they teach in schools or whether one movie is similar to another, it’s still compelling to read these “to be continued” style postings.

The design is simple, and looks like a Blogger standard, but it isn’t one of the horribly overused ones. The soft green colors are just enough to be aesthetically pleasing but not so much as to overpower the writing.

The extras are contained to just links and a shout box. Usually, a shout box would be a very bad addition to a site (I don’t care what anyone’s told you) but it doesn’t slow the page load so I can’t really complain about it. That’s the only part of the design that’s misaligned, and that’s probably just my screen resolution.

Overall, this is a pretty good blog. The design is nothing fancy, but the writing is deep and the content is kept to the topic at hand, which is good. I have to frown about the Google ads, but I didn’t even notice them at first. They’re unobtrusive, just like everything else on this site. I have to conclude with a 4.75… my highest score yet. Congratulations at having an almost perfect site.NULL

I love sports, and it’s very rare that I stumble upon a really good sports weblog that I want to check one very day. When I saw a site called “Chicago Sports” on the list of sites waiting to be reviewed, I was definitely excited. My excitement soon came to an end when the site loaded with only three posts having been written.

Out of the many Chicago sports teams, the author, listing himself as Pioneertom2, has only written about the Cubs and the Bears so far. The author definitely knows what he’s talking about, and is able to easily justify his opinions on players and teams a like. For a site like this, credibility is a key component and the author unquestionably possesses that.

The layout is a very simple two-column layout. The three entries (two about the Cubs, one about the Bears) are written in black text on a white background. There is no list of archives, because the site doesn’t have any yet. While the design doesn’t add anything to the site, it doesn’t take anything away from it either, which is the main thing.

This Chicago Sports weblog is still in its infancy, but it has the potential to be something big. With so many Chicago sports teams, there’s blogging material year ‘round. Once some time goes by, I think this site will definitely see it’s potential skyrocket. Until the collection of entries grows, though, I’m afraid there’s no much to see here.
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