Austere but elegant. The light, lime green draws the reader down the site from the black top-bar. The reader attention is caught because the black top-bar sets itself off in a welcoming manner. Your sight is well-balanced. There is not too many links or excessive colors, which invites the reader to continue. Side-bar links are well organized and titled for quick reference, yet easy for understanding.
The pictures and videos you post have enough contrast to spark your attention. Why is this yawning cat above a post of a vicious vampire? But the images and videos are evenhanded with actual prose. I like the way you wrap the prose around the picture, too. And the tone of voice you use is warm and sometimes sardonic, a fitting manner for the content you've chosen. Links are numerous and pertinent. As are the titles, which are sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, also adding to the overall feel I get from the blog.
Your lead-ins to the ghost videos are particularly misleading
in a good way: you lead the reader into a frightening experience without giving away the plot. Yet we know its a ghost video! I love it. The thing I like best is that you often acknowledge both sides of the coin by bringing what the skeptics say concerning beliefs about ghosts and such. The range of your data is also vast. It seems to me that it would be easy to fall into the hole of just ghost or chupacabra stories. But you cover everything from sex toys to abandoned children, from the sad to the freaky. You seem to be living up to your project proposal well. Keep up the good work!
The first thing that strikes me about this blog is the diversity of content. Concerning this diversity, I do believe there is a line, though. One can go too far off the edge into complete random wackiness. But you seem to ride that edge with ease. Clark Gable above Johnny Depp above a punk rock band's cover of a Dylan song? I love it! Like totally! Like oh my god!
Like
Weirdoftheday's blog, you have a fine-tuned the art of wrapping the prose around the images and videos, which I am obviously partial to. You are also well-linked. Your titles -- which are often clipped and entertaining, or ecstatic and alluring -- are good guides and totally pertinent. What's perhaps more important that all of those things is in your content. Your are offering perspective and unique analysis. You seem partial to movies, but do not fall to far into your own tastes to turn the reader off from digging in.
Another thing I find important is that you do not sway too far from strong literature. I mean, one could blog about certain things that have no value. But posts such as the one titled "A refound favorite", is on the classic
Death of a Salesman. This roots you not only into an idiosyncratic and interesting set of tastes, but makes your blog generally more engrossing. And you're just funny. Like the passage found
here, which is my favorite: "
I have been waiting to see Hugh Jackman again as his hairy, silver clawed alter-ego for far too long. Every movie that he is in I love - if only to watch him. He could read me the phone book in a potato sack and I would be happy."
First thing I notice here is how far out my territory I really am. I don't even know what the "Open Source Movement" is let alone what it is "up to." But I did not despair, nor did I investigate. I read the project proposal and I set my mind to work.
Well, I did end up doing some investigation, just enough to bring me up to speed so I at least know a little about what you are talking about. But, concerning about
how you are talking about it
what you are talking about: I find the rhetoric in your posts quite comical. And you have trenchant opinions that are well-backed with a firm ideology about the technological world. This point is made firm by your far-reaching attentions.
This post is a perfect example, where you end up judging the presidential candidates on their views of technology. Therefore your interests are truly entrenched and your care for the future adds authenticity to your blog. You also have strong sources like PC Magazine, adding weight and depth to your arguments. And many of your post are arguments, for, or against, ideas and perspectives. Being a philosophy major, I love arguments.
I like the basic outline of your blog, which guides the reader toward your content. Compared to the other two blogs I reviewed, you use a minimal amount of pictures. And when you do use
them, you have a good reason: because you are referencing something specific in them. This eliminates needless distractions and unnecessary content. And though we were encouraged to use pictures, I kind of like the fact that you don't use them. I feel they would subtract from your perspective giving posts. Like
this one, where you cover company buyouts.
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