Monoblogue opens to a visually uninteresting background of very fine, closely spaced gray lines with tiny generic fonts. The first entry on the page that day was a small paragraph about an apple computer site, followed by a huge blank space that perhaps is supposed to contain an image, I’m not sure. I searched for some information about the author and found one paragraph:
the author lives in los ángeles and in good company . he was born in 1970 , started reading grown-up books altogether too early and stopped playing with legos a bit late . he is now just a tourist in two cultures •
Okay, that was informative. I began browsing through the most recent entries and encountered a disjointed mix of liberal politics and computer related subjects, along with the occasional, out of left field bit of trivia, such as the link to a site for “Psychiatry for Mishandled Toys”.
Political blogs are so pervasive that in order to stand out, one needs to really do some homework. And in my opinion, this blog does not stand out in any way. I don’t get a sense of the author’s thought processes, only a regurgitation of tired finger pointing slogans that are frankly a dime a thousand these days. If you want to persuade someone who might disagree with you, show me your gut feelings, write about how you have struggled to understand the world from your point of view. Try to convince me with sound reasoning. Don’t just post a link to MoveOn.org and another link to where I can contribute money.
Elsewhere on the page there are links to our author’s family tree which was fairly well done, and a travelogue section with some very nice pictures from Ecuador that is worth taking a look at, and some original line drawings and Photoshop digital art that might be of interest. As far as I can tell, all the entries are from August of this year. There were no older entries that I could find.
Overall, I found this blog rather uninspiring. The entries don’t seem to hang together with any real coherency. Perhaps if the author revealed more of himself in his posts, I could have connected with him. Since this seems to be a very new blog, it is possible our author is casting about trying on different things to see what fits. If he succeeds in finding his style, this blog has potential to improve.