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.