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A vanity plate for a girl with no internal monologue. That’s the tagline for this weblog. The anonymous other of this weblog is an English teacher in the South Bronx — infdicating she is perfectly capable of putting the “smack down” on me if I dangle a participle in this review.



I will start with the design. The design is Blogger Template: Blue. Not very inspiring, and it appears that not a lot of time is spent working on the design. Of course, that can be forgiven, because Blogger is designed for people who are not necessarily interested in spending hours working on their site design.



That being said, design is really an integral part of expressing the personality of a weblogger. Poor design, sends negative connotations, regardless of the writing quality.



The author approaches her content almost as though she were relaying stories to her friends over the phone. The writing is very informal, and easy to read. The English teacher shows in the above average sentence structure and absence of spelling mistakes.



The entries are interesting, but standard fare for a weblogger in her 20s. I would like to see more entries though, and the archives section is broken, it took me a couple of tries to get the links for last year to work.



Over all, I am going to give this weblog a 2.5. If more effort was put into the design, and there were more entries this could easily be a 3.0+ weblog…to.

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Glorious Noise is a glorious website. That’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it.



Now, the bright orange background may throw you for a loop at first, but, for me, it wasn’t out of place at all. There’s a lot of text on this site and the bright, happy orange background is exactly what it needs.



“This is *not* just a record review site.” Those are direct words off the site. “Glorious Noise just contains some essays, stories and rants about how rock and roll can change your life.”



The posts are definitely more than just record reviews or journal entires – they’re well thought out, mentally challenging, and sometimes passionate entries about a wide array of musical aspects.



Through a year of weekly archived weblog entries, I found post after post that made me say “Wow. Someone else felt that way, too?” I also found posts that made me think “Huh. I never thought of Mick Jagger like that!”



You can listen to music, brought to you by the staff at Glorious Noise, while you browse through the site, and the selection is quite varied.



Looking over the site one last time, I’m not sure there’s a single thing I’d change about it. Glorious Noise

I’m not sure why, but I really like the domain name of this weblog. And, despite what one may think going into it, the site doesn’t completely concentrate on just boy bands or that kind of thing.



The more recent weblog entries have song lyrics at the beginning and end of each post. I’m not sure the relevance of the chosen lyrics, but they range from all sorts of different artists and are nice to read. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to find the actual weblog post between the two different sets of lyrics.



The different posts don’t really vary a lot, with the archives concentrating mainly on N’Sync’s new album and other musical news. Every once in a while, you learn about what might have happened in the author’s life that specific day.



Sparkles.nu has some very nice graphics, and the creator clearly spent a lot of time working with the site, which is evident from the huge amount of links within the site and the intricate graphics used throughout. This is definitely a *complete* site.Sparkles.nu

Weblog’s new location: http://home.wi.rr.com/kytheria/



My first impression of this site came with the graphic that you see at the top of the page. The “on the inside looking out” tagline plugged right with the image of a woman looking out a barred window is a pretty powerful statement all in its’ own, and the rest of the site did not let me down.



The title of the site, “Shades of Grey”, describes exactly the physical appearance of the site. Amanda uses black, white, and grey throughout the site and it gives the site a uniform appearance throughout.



A long time webblogger, Amanda’s entries are wonderfully written. The majority of them look as if they’re long, but because of the writing style, the entries read very quickly and I found myself hurrying along to the next to read even more.



This is a very well designed and maintained site all-around. An audience of adults (perhaps 21+ and over?) may find this site more entertaining than teenagers would. However, there’s certainly nothing here that would offend anyone… at least it didn’t me.



I’d definitely suggest checking this weblog out when you have a few minutes to really get involved in some reading.Shades of Grey

I put “Verbal Diarrhea” in the -ADULT- category for the basic fact that you are met immediately with a picture of a fat hairy ass and I wanted to give the reader as much warning for that experience as possible. (thank me later)



Okay and now for the review. *cough*



This site frightens me. I don’t like the twisted and blunt world that is Hasan’s. It’s smoke-filled and smells I’m sure.



Each day you’re met with new antics and such from the blunt and otherwise trashy webmaster who loiters at Verbal Diarreah (and shouldn’t). Most of the entries are slightly entertaining. Hasan can write decently which is a surprising fact indeed.



But first impressions are almost everything. My first impression of this site wasn’t anything special. I envisioned West Virginia and the word “hick” as soon as the page loaded. Judgmental you say? I’m a reviewer folks.



In any case…

The design for Verbal Diarrhea is okay. The writing reflects the man. *sigh* And so this site got a 3.5.Verbal Diarrhea