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Posted by Bloggeries in Entertainment
Bloggeries is looking at a blog pertaining to the music industry today, and you can find ‘My Life My Music’.The blog is owned by 22 year old Carl who is blogging from the Phillipines. The blog is entirely about the music industry and entertainment news related to music in popular culture. Carl expresses his love for music in his blog header, which says, ‘Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul’. You can see this philosophy in action by checking out any of Carl’s latest bloggeries: My IMS Family; Winehouse Scraps Awards Gig, Heads to Rehab; Beyonce, Rihanna, Underwood Performing at Grammy’s; Keys Still Atop Album Chart in Slow Sales Week; Florida Remains No.1, but Brown Closes in, Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC at age 28; American Idol Ratings Down from Last Year; Brad Renfro, 25, found Dead in Los Angeles Home; and Meet the Funky People.
The blog is well organized and nicely laid out which makes it very easy to navigate. Bloggeries are in white text on a black background with red colored musical bordering and links are in red. I personally found this theme to be difficult on the eyes and made reading difficult, so this may be something the blogger wants to look into changing. Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a right navigation bar. In the navigation bar there is an advertising offer, Recent Posts/Archives Menu, Interesting Blogs Menu, Feeds Information, Blog Directory Buttons, Comments Window if you would like to add something to the Blog Main page, MyBlogLog Readers widget, Friends List, and an About page. Each bloggery is accompanied by relevant pictures, which works well for the blog and adds meaning to each piece of content. What I do not see is a Categories Menu which would be a great addition to this blog with its niche being in Entertainment. Categories would definitely add to the searchability of the blog and provide the blogger with more search engine traffic.
I am going with a 3/5 for this blog. My first suggestion would be to remove the annoying pop-up that occurs as the blog is loaded. This is extremely distracting from the point of the blog and as a result, affects both the overall appearance of the blog as well as navigation. The content scores well for the blog as it is written by outside news sources. Despite the fact that the blogger does not write his own content, he does cite each source which, while it loses some of the point of a personal blog tone, he still maintains active content. I would suggest the blogger hire someone to write his About page if he does not speak English, as the about page is not in English and thus the blogger will be unable to connect to his English readership through this about page. Otherwise however, despite not having a true personal voice and having some appearance issues, this blog is a good read for those interested in the music industry.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Entertainment
If you are a movie buff, then you definitely want to check out this blog that is dedicated to movies. The blog is called Tomorrow’s Entertainment. This blog is a blog dedicated to becoming a premier destination for both the casual movie goer, as well as the proficient movie buff. Tomorrow’s Entertainment provides its visitors with news, previews, and reviews on anything related to Movies, Television, or Entertainment related. The blog will be soon pursuing Television Series, Games, Books, Comics, and Music News, but is currently dedicated to reviewing upcoming movies. You can see this for yourself by looking at any of their most recent bloggeries: Bee Movie Review, Margot at the Wedding Review, Stop – Loss, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins Update, Book Review – V: The Second Generation, and Punisher: War Zone Update.
The blog is professionally laid out and this makes it very easy to navigate. I do suggest for easier navigation to use Mozilla Firefox when viewing this blog. Bloggeries are centralized with white text on a black background and menus are bordered in maroon. The blog header is designed after a movie ticket stub, so ‘Admit One’ when entering Tomorrow’s Entertainment which I thought was very clever. The blog contains both a left and right navigation system, as well as a top navigation bar. In the top navigation bar you will find links to Home, News, Previews, Reviews, Movies, Television, About, Contact, and Advertise. In the left navigation bar you will find Recent Articles Menu, Archives Menu, and site stats accompanied by Subscription links. In the right navigation bar you will find Awards, Recent Viewer widget, and blog directory buttons. You will find also a comprehensive Categories Menu that lists categories such as Books, Fan Short Films, Interviews, Movies, News, Other, Previews, Remake, Reviews, and so much more. Each bloggery is also accompanied by relevant pictures from or showcasing the movie in question.
I will go ahead and give this blog a 4/5. The blog is doing well on all counts of scoring criteria. The blog has been professionally designed which makes navigation very easy and earns it excellent appearance scores. Navigation scores are high due to the content of all essential blog meat that readers like to see – About page, categories, recent articles, and etc. All of these things make navigation on any blog much easier. Activity scores are not bad, bloggeries are coming in every couple of days it seems, and some days even contain more than one entry. The concept of the blog is standard, however it is presented in a unique fashion that gives the blog some creativity. Content is well-written and I had no issues with the content however the context of the content needs to be looked at, and this definitely affect content scores.The blog has a copyright disclaimer claiming all content is original, but upon closer examination of the content it in fact was not 100% original. I saw almost identical reviews on other websites, and the blogger needs to be wary of this. Not only is he claiming 100% originality, but there are some content issues. If the blogger has writers working for him, he may need to double-check their reviews. Otherwise my suggestion would be if the reviews are taken from somewhere else that those sources be cited at the end of every review. This will protect the owner of the blog from any infringement issues. Otherwise, the choice of content is excellent, and I found it to be an easy read that would be very appealing to movie goers. Overall I enjoyed visiting Tomorrow’s Entertainment, and as a movie buff myself, expect to see myself returning.
-Chrissie
Posted by Bloggeries in Reviews, Recycling Bin, Entertainment
I took a look at Sveta’s Blog: writingup.com/blog/sveta. Normally we add a hyperlink but this blog doesn’t merit one! Being an incurable pop culture addict, I was intrigued with the description: “Humor, hilarious parodies, satires, music and movie reviews, personal essays, and basically, anything you could possibly imagine!!!” Initially, I was disappointed. My pop culture indulgent needs were simply not, well, indulged.At first glance, I found it to be more of her latter description…that of the anything you could possibly imagine sort. I first started poking around, and I questioned, what IS this Blog really about. But then I found myself reading about the traumas of a Mormon wife, of a man who brought me to the streets of New Orleans with a cup of smoking coffee, of a mom whose heart broke mine when her daughter wanted to move away to Pennsylvania for camp – and oh, how difficult it is to be a mom.
I kept reading Sveta’s Blog. While it is not the most organized, it seems, that is the point. The Blog is about anything you could possibly imagine. The more I read, the more I understood. This is not about me; there really IS something for everybody here. I found the pop culture after all, though I never thought I would even be thinking of Duran Duran in 2007; but I was, and I liked it. I also got some scrap booking tips; how to deal with the measles, asthma and other common ailments; and strangely found myself writing Tom Wolfe’s new book on my to-do list. I like Sveta’s Blog because it leads you wherever you want and wherever you need to go. Many of her links are not her own, but she provides a service to you by allowing you to get where you need to go just by visiting her blogdom. It IS well written if you enjoy that punch drunk kind of slant at popular culture and the human existence, though that is not for everyone. If we are talking about content and not style however, there is definitely something for everyone, even when the content is probably not the most original.
The activity is not the most current as I am not seeing any posts beyond June 3rd of last year. That being said, I will take her American Idol comments to intend LAST years competition. Further, I found myself being extremely distracted by her Ad Sense and was really searching for content in between the ads, rather than vice versa. Given this, although this Blog can serve lots of flavor with the right kind of java, I am going to say only about a .5 out of 5 scale. She offers very little meat and potatoes for content, the structure was completely disorganized, the Blog activity itself has come to an all out halt, and the advertising is out of control. This is unfortunate, because her writing was established enough to make me feel as if I was on that New Orleans street with that smoking cup of coffee with my friend. However, for keeping me interested and for the stroll down memory lane, I will give her the .5 as that is about as long as my attention span could last on year long material.
-Chrissie
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