Tuesday, April 02, 2002

I signed up for the Peer to Peer Review Project, which means I review a blog, and someone else reviews my blog, and they all get posted somewhere. Anyhoos, we also post our review on our blog, along with a link to the blog we're reviewing. So here goes:

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This blog has much to offer. The layout is clear and uncluttered, making it easily navigable. The colorscheme goes together well, and is easy to read off of. The posts are short and sweet, many centering around links, interspersed with posts that describe what the author’s been doing that day. The links are generally “quirky” news articles, BBC features, and other random pages relating to what the author finds interesting. Links featured on the sidebar include other blogs, what the author is currently reading, radio links, and charity/cause sites.

I did not find this site to be to my tastes necessarily, because most of the author’s comments about himself are rather brief and uninformative, citing more trivial events in his life, such as what he’s watching on TV, and what he’s bought lately. However, the site would probably be more interesting to a British reader, than to me (American), because many of the references to things he has bought or seen are British, and do not strike a chord for me. Also, some of the things he links too are not overly appealing to a general audience, once again many of them are British, but even when they aren’t they still do not appeal to a wide audience.

However, this site is a refreshing departure from blogs where the author does not know grammar or spelling or why he/she has no friends. I think that this site could be very interesting for someone interested in offbeat news stories, British news/products, online personality tests, some mainstream news, and a few bits of pop-culture.

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