TWI or (T)ech and (W)eirdness of the (I)nternet for short is (according to the blogs “about” section) a blog that was started in October of this year with the soul aim of filtering the best of tech news from around the net and displaying it in an opinionated format (i.e not just copy and paste) by it’s author, “Maxx”.
The layout of the blog is very well and the fact that the blog is running off WordPress is really well concealed and until I hovered over a link in one of the posts, I was convinced that the system may have been coded from scratch! There are loads of RSS feed’s available and quite some thought has gone into the naming of catagories and tag’s that feature on the site.
As I already said, this site is all about the author delivering his own interpretation of the latest and greatest technology news around. Usually I would turn my nose up at a site like this for the simple reason that I like my technology news to be factual and with an opinionated blog like this, there is always going to be room for bias towards one company/organisation in particular stories. It appears however, that this blog is an exceptional case. There may very well be some bias here and there, but because the author always derives his opinion from supplied quotations you can often understand how they managed to form this opinion and for me, figuring this out is almost as interesting as the news within the posts themselves!
Overall I found the blog to be both informative and interesting to read and even though I read a lot of Tech news sites, I still learned a lot. The blog is also a joy to navigate around and obviously, a lot of time was spent in figuring out exactly how to display the content to the visitors. Lately the author has been encouraging community contributions to the site due to a lack of available time to work on the blog. It will be interesting to see if this idea gets off the ground and if it does, it begs the question, will the style of the content change too dramatically? Only time will tell but for now this is certainly a very entertaining blog and I heartily recommend it to any self-respecting tech savvy person out there!NULL