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Mortality, Inc. first grabbed me with it’s bright yellow background and intriguing photographs taken in a cemetery.

I started reading the blog, and more than a little disinterested in the content, which focuses on death and corpses.

I was really interested in her bio, which states she’s the author of a controversial book that everyone hates. Normally, people that write blogs sell their product, so I was a little disappointed not to see a link to the book. Their were book links on the front page, so maybe the book was there under an alias.

I think you’d have to be interested in goth or death to love this site, but it still has something to offer the casual reader. I was fascinated to read “Medical Examiners always make the “down cut” to the left of the belly button when making a Y incision at autopsy. This is done because there is a leftover tendon on the right side from the ambilical cord. They won’t cut it to show respect for the way we are born.”
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When I first arrived at this site, I was slightly disappointed. The post on top was about what changes had been made to the blog, the design was very basic, and there were a lot of different plug-ins and links in the sidebar, which isn’t necessarily a good thing.

However, the blog owner (stressqueen) has quite a few posts, and they’re actually pretty interesting. As I clicked around and looked at some of her favorite posts, some confused me, some amused me, and some gave me further insight into the woman behind the blog.

The design is, as I stated earlier, pretty basic. However, it doesn’t really take anything away from the writing. Sometimes a basic layout is just what you need in order to balance long posts and lots of links (which this blog has).

As far as extras go, there are a lot of links, some in her posts and many more in her sidebar. A lot of them point to different places in her blog, while quite a bit of them point to different sites. These sites range from sites linking to her to blogs she reads, as well as some different blog tool programs she belongs to.

Overall, this site isn’t bad, by a long shot. It’s not the greatest blog there ever was, but it’s definitely worth checking out, and you might even want to add it to your lists. There’s nothing entirely exciting about it; however, for this blog, I wouldn’t change a thing. It all seems to fit, and that’s really what’s important.NULL

Being a man I was afraid that this site would turn into a man bashing site, but instead it was knowledge that both sexes could benefit from reading… I read every article posted to the site and found some of the things very interesting.

The weblog is based on girl talk, from recipes to simple dos and don’ts in relationships. It also gives information from a women’s perspective on how to get men to adore and fall in love with you. I was kind of offended that some of the items on the site make men seem like total morons and that they didn’t know what women do to pick up “that hot guy,” but overall it seemed to be a positive atmosphere that didn’t prey on the typical “dumb male ego.”

The design was very simple and just as seductive as what was being discussed. It was red and white typical Valentine’s Day colors with a nice logo at the beginning. It was not cluttered with advertisements or links to other pages. She sited everything that she used and also gave links inside of article for further information… another very nice feature to add to a blog in my book.

I liked the site over all and feel that it would be very beneficial for other women to read and comment on her postings. It would be much better to have women involved in a positive atmosphere as in this blog, rather than a men bashing rampage disagreement with her girlfriends.

On a side note, the blog itself is working correctly, but none of her links at the top work, but the auction link… These items need fixed, but my review is based on the blog and its content. These links being broken drops my rating by 1 rating point from what this site would have received

Overall I would rate this site as a 3.25, while making one suggestion. I would post more often. It appears to me that she only posts during the second half of the month. I am not sure if this is a cycle that occurs on purpose or if it is just coincidental. I enjoyed reading the site, but would have to admit it is mainly designed for women.
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I truly didn’t know what to expect when I saw the name “Truly Obscure.” I thought I had come across another blog, but when I visited the website, it was truly much more. According to their description, Truly Obscure is, “Hawaii’s best (and only) print and online magazine focused on news and reviews of the latest, greatest, and strangest.”

From the description, I expected to read a lot about Hawaii and things happening in Hawaii, but this is just one section of what is available at this zine/blog. And that is a good thing. There are sections about all things cinematic, literary, music, games and gaming, web stuff, gadgets, and food, as well as things about Hawaii. But all this information and interesting articles seem buried by only being available by the links at the top, and way at the bottom, below the long description, and the full length latest article. The description of what ‘Truly Obscure’ is about takes up too much space. New visitors want to get to the content as fast as possible and repeat visitors don’t want to see that long intro over and over again. Another benefit of reducing that long intro is that you can get to more of the content faster.

The design integrates well with the function. The menu in particular was very eye catching, with a combination of a picture, the link title, and a nice color change when the mouse hovers over the link. I would change the layout of the content so that I could see more of the articles from the other sections sooner, rather than have to scroll to the bottom. The sidebar really doesn’t have much useful information other than the bios and the ‘about’, and this space could be utilized better. In addition, I would have liked to see more color. The design, although very functional, was a little plain for an online magazine.

Overall, I liked this website so much that I bookmarked it, (and spent a lot of time giving what I hope was a very detailed, helpful review). Definitely a 5 for content, but the layout and presentation of the content needs some improvement.
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I knew going into this review that it would be focused more at the computer geeks and those of us who have been around the internet for a while. I knew this because the author calls his site a GeekLog and I just had this feeling that it wouldn’t be targeted at other forms of geeks (star wars, star trek, convention going people).

When the page first loaded I was greeted with a post from September. This scared me as I thought I was reviewing a site that hadn’t been updated since then. This post actually serves as a welcome post than anything else. After reading the entire site, I am not sure if this post is warranted to be at the very front. But I will discuss more on that later.

The design of the site is a three column layout with a lot of info on the sidebars. All of the info is your standard blog info; polls, recently posted, things of this nature. When I got to the bottom of the site I noticed that this blog was powered by geeklog. Now I find out that geeklog is actually blogging software and not some creative name for the site. I liked it better when I thought Mr. Maggoo was being creative with the naming of his blog.

The posts are of a technical sort. But they are also of a personal nature. Recent posts talk about a program he has been working on at work that is unfortunately not going to get patented and the process that has been working up to this. Other posts talk about security issues and things going on at the university he works at. The frequency of these posts is not often unfortunately. I wish he would update more often, but I am sure he is busy. I know this site used to have more posts, but a server crash caused the author to lose a lot of posts.

Overall this site is pretty average. With a higher frequency of posts I am sure that this site could blossom. I think Mr Maggoo is trying to figure out where he wants to take his blog and thus his postings are happening less often. There is potential for this site to become a really good read. If this is a goal the author has, then I hope he flexes his blogging muscles and focuses on his blog.

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