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Sky Watch Blog Review

Friday, October 31st, 2008

rate2 Sky Watch Blog ReviewFashion is all the rave these days in the blogosphere what with New York Fashion Week just passing, and London Fashion Week right on its heels. If you are looking for some good fashion advice from the blogging experts, then you may want to check out The Style Watch Blog.  The Style Watch blog is a fashion blog that strives to be a collaboration of all the fashion news that one can find on the web.   The blog is run by three ‘authors’ or bloggers, and works to provide you with everything you need to know about fashion. Though there is very little original content on the site, the blog does cover quite a range of topics which you can see in any of their most recent bloggerie: NY fashion: politics, celebs, and unsexy clothes; Chanel Mobile Art the Video; Why London is still a fashion capital; New NY fashions appeal to stay-at-home traveler; Fashion Week Fallout: Are Tough Times Ahead?; and “Sex and the City” fans can shop Carrie’s closet! 

handmscoop1sp6 Sky Watch Blog ReviewThe blog contains very little meat, thus making it a clean template and somewhat easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and appear in black text on white background with links highlighted in blue.  The blog offers a right sided navigation system as well where you will find a tag cloud, Pull Down Categories Menu, Authors Menu, a WordPress widget, and a video widget.  The Categories Menu is a little odd for a fashion blog and seems to contain labels for odds and ends such as TV, areas of the globe, and a few pertinent fashion related topics.  The content also is a little bit strange as mentioned, this blog seems to be more a parlayer of news feeds rather than a provision of original content. Bloggers are not writing content per se themselves, but retrieving content from other websites and posting it.  Mind you, they are not claiming originality, however when reviewing blogs the amount of original content on a blog is a factor in the overall review.

Overall this blog gets a 2/5 at the time of review, and this is primarily based on the lack of meat this blog needs. Primarily the blog is lacking in original content, and there is little if any to speak of on the blog. News sources can be reached by other means, so if the bloggers are wishing to retain readers, providing links to news stories is simply not enough. From a navigation perspective, the blog needs more blog essentials for the readers to use such as a Recent Posts Menu and possibly a comments menu. Though, considering the lack of originality here, I would guess few if any comments would be coming in.  Further, the appearance of the blog is somewhat bland for a fashion blog, as fashion readers like to see all of the pretty things they like the most, and while this blog offers the bare bones for graphics, I doubt it would be enough to sustain a healthy readership. Bottom line, my suggestion would be for this blog to start again, implement some blog meat and some original content at the very least in order to see any success at all.

- Chrissie

Gadget Advisor Blog Review

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

rate5 Gadget Advisor Blog ReviewThose who are constantly on the hunt for the latest and greatest gadgets will find them at The Gadget Advisor Blog.  The gadget advisor technology news blog is filled with only the most innovative and the cutting edge products and gadgets on the markets.  You will also find here add-ons, plug-ins, and extensions that can be used in browsers or other software. What sets this blog apart from all the other gadget blogs out there is that it  admits that it will not cover every single gadget coming to the market.  However, if you like to tinker with the toys, this gadget will certainly tickle that techie bone.  You can see this for yourself through any of the most recent bloggeries which include: Recommended Firefox Extensions; OCZ Releases Triple Channel DDR3 Memory Kits; Free Firefox Web Directory Form Filler Extension; MSI X58 Eclipse Motherboard ; OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released.

MSI P45 Diamond MotherboardThe blog offers a very professional layout and this makes it a breeze to navigate.  The blog theme is in a quiet green with bloggeries in dark text on white background.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there are many navigation systems on this blog, but not too many to work around.  The top navigation system offers you links to Home, About, and Advertisement, while a navigation system in the header will take you to Gadgets, Tech News, Computer Hardware, Computer Software, Featured Articles, and Archives.  There is a double wide right navigation system as well where you will find all of the blog essentials you need.  A Posts Menu divided into Popular, Featured, Comments, and Tags is the first thing you will find here.  Following this you find advertisement, Categories Menu, Site Pages, and Resources Menu which serves as a blogroll.  The blog is only a couple of months young, so you will not find too many categories yet, but expect this to grow.  Right now five categories exist, and the blogger may want to consider expanding that due to the breadth of the niche.  At present, the blog is primarily an information blog and so it looks quite text based. You won’t find any graphics on the opening page, but as you go into the bloggeries pictoral graphics are present in most if not all bloggeries.

This blog gets a 4.5 at the time of review, which is a great mark on such a young blog.  Though the blog presents itself well, it still does need some tweaks to amp it up a bit.  The categories menu could be beefed up a little as mentioned in order to ease navigation a little, but otherwise the navigation is very easy.  The content is well written in a user friendly voice which is important for a blog of this nature.  Appearance wise the blog is clean and friendly, though I do suggest offering more graphics on the opening page within the bloggeries to spice it up a bit.  Activity seems consistent and regular which is a great sign, but again, the bloggeries themselves do not have time and date stamps, and readers like to see current times on recent bloggeries.  Overall however, this is a great blog that is well organized, and will be well appreciated by todays gadget lover.

-Chrissie

Intermission at Work Blog Review

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Intermission at Work Movie Blog ReviewThe movie buff will really appreciate this next blog, as it is written by a movie lover and for movie lovers. The blog is called Intermission at Work.  The blogger is a computer programmer by day, and a movie theater manager by night, and blogs about movies in his spare time.  You will find anything you want to know about all of the latest movies, including reviews, previews, trailers, and more.  You can see for yourself what the blogger has to offer in his ‘Recently Released’ bloggeries: Joe’s Review: Tropic Thunder; Movie Morsel: Check Your Movie Times; Movies this Weekend!; Movie Moguls: Round 2; and Joe’s Review: Hancock.

Nick & Norah's Infinite PlaylistThe site is well organized and offers a lot to its readers. Almost too much as navigation can get cumbersome.  But readers will find plenty of blog meat here and many systems to navigate.  There are two main navigation systems in the header where you can go to just about anything the blog has to offer.  The bulk of the blog is left marginalized and there is one double wide right sided navigation bar. In the left marginalized frame you will see that bloggeries consume the main and center stage of the page, and then this frame is divided into sub headings such as Movie Reviews, Movie Previews, and other features.  In the navigation bar to the right you will find Subscription info, You Tube video of most recently seen movie, Advertising, Recent Posts titled ‘Recently Released’, Top Commenters menu titled ‘Top Critics’ ad spaces for available advertising.  You will also find useful information in the footer, where you will see Recent Readers widget, Recommended Movie Sites, and Weekend Box Office Stats.

This blog gets a 4.2/5 right now with only a few tweaks to mention.  Content is well done and in a personal voice that lends credibility to the quality of the content. From an appearance standpoint the blog is well organized and offers a lot of variety and color that keeps the reader entertained, while reading about entertainment.  Navigation is somewhat complicated due to the many navigation systems. Sometimes when too many navigation systems are used the reader can get confused and not know where to look first. I think the blogger could overcome this through a Categories Menu that would organize things a little more concisely for the readership.  Further, the content while it is well written, is not consistent and not daily, and thus the blogger could also benefit from more frequent posting. Overall however, this blog is an excellent resource to the movie lover and I would definitely give it two thumbs up!

-Chrissie

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