We are going to look at a personal blog by established writer and author Bruce Eisner. This blog is a perspective on ‘creating a sensible culture’ and is named “Bruce Eisner’s Vision Thing” . This blogger is a Ph.D candidate and is currently writing out of Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the President of Island Foundation and is working on the Island Sanctuary Project. You can find more of his writings, publications, and random musings at his blog. You can also get to know this blogger a little better by checking out his recent bloggeries: URTH.TV Consciousness Movement Social Network, The Shock Doctrine A Short Film by Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein, Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence – eWeek, Horizons – Contemporary Perspectives on Psychedelics October 27 New York City, Singularity Summit 2007 Complete Audio Downloads and Kurzweil Video, Peter Max (and a lot more) on lines and colors at blog, Top 10 Video Search Engines, and Remember Jack Kerouac on the Smithsonian Magazine.
You will find navigation on the blog straightforward as the blog offers both left and right navigation systems as well as a very handy top navigation bar. Posts are centralized with the two navigation bars, and are black text on white formatting. The header is in red and there is no other specific color scheme which is fine on the eyes as the blogger offers a lot of other features to the blog to add color and life to the blog. The top navigation system is very handy with each link opening up in a new window, and offers links for Home, About, Writings, Links, Everything Bruce, Blogroll, Archives, Search, and Subscription methods. In the left sided left navigation bar you will find the About Page, Vision Thing Widgets, an extensive categories menu, software downloads, AdSense, Everything About Bruce Eisner (publications), Bruce Eisner on the Blog Critics Blog, Mind Media Blog topics, and Deal of the Day. In the right sided navigation system you will find a Google search bar, AdSense, Subscription info, Archives pull down menus both by month and by category, Recent Comments mnu, Swicki search bar and tag cloud, Bruce’s other sites menu, Amazon ads, Blog widget buttons, and more AdSense.
I am going to give this blog a 3/5 with my biggest suggestion being some clean up and organization of the advertising. There is so much advertising that it is affecting many aspects of blog scoring criteria. The ads are extremely distracting from what appears to be very well written content. The excess ads also affect the appearance scores as well. Navigation would be improved with a recent posts menu, though otherwise navigation is very easy on this blog. The content is well done but again, it is difficult to focus on this with the amount of advertising that is currently there. The activity ranges from a week between posts to a couple of days, but it does seem to be picking up. I am not sure what the readership is currently as there are not a lot of comments, though this sometimes is not a reflection of readership. I think if the activity was picked up a bit and the appearance organized a little more efficiently, this blog would be a very good read and this would be reflected in the readership.
-Chrissie