You might be looking for a blog that has a little bit of everything that involves what may be called “hot topics†on the web today. You know, television, Internet, technology, online video business, that kind of thing. Alex Klive has attempted to do just that with his World TV Blog. The goal with is blog is to bring you news and commentary on the developments taking place in Internet Television and broadband video. His intent is to provide to the world subjective reviews and analysis of online video content and his target audience is consumers, but is hoping to reach others in the industry as well. To get an idea of his blog, you can check out his recent posts: New keyboard controlled news application, What is World TV Beta? What is a beta?, Fixing an overheating Inspiron 1300 laptop, Football News Sites, Facebook Fatigue – The curse of the Social Networking sites, David Chase speaks, The End of the Sopranos, RCTV Broadcasts reach 100,000 viewers in 100 countries, and A review of WorldTV from Profy.com.
I will say the site is somewhat difficult to navigate. When you go to the main page, everything is left marginalized. The site has standard black text on white background and as mentioned, is left marginalized. Scroll right through the bottom to find the stuff that blogs are made of. There is a menu for consumer blogs that contains links to the “Official Google Video Blog†and the “TV Squadâ€. You can also find a menu for assorted Industry Blogs relating to media and online television. There is another menu for industry jobs, and some additional links you may want to get to. Navigation is so difficult that it took me some time to find the “About Me†page which is sort of clustered in the mix on the left navigation bar dumped way down at the bottom. When you do get there however, you will find some good content, an excellent introduction to Klive, the owner, and oddly enough, the categories menu in a right sided navigation bar. Here you can check out any of the World TV Categories he has made, Most Popular Videos on the Internet, About the Author and Introduction to this Blog, Contact Us, Content News, Event Dates, Guides and Tutorials, Miscellaneous, My Favorite Video Clips, Rants and Raves, and Software Tools. All very valuable links if you take the time to find them, which, given how difficult this site is to navigate, I am guessing you won’t.
So this site is getting a 2.8 from me, and I am sure you can guess why. When a site isn’t easy to navigate it does not matter how good the content is, I am too distracted to fully appreciate it. I did like the style of writing, the review of Facebook post for example was excellently written and very comprehensive. I only wish the formatting could be revamped so that the readership can focus on what the blog is about, the content. I think given the nature of the blog, the links and categories and content are all excellently done and relevant but again, so poorly formatted. The author needs to work on this blog and then I think his readership will appreciate the content the way it deserves to be.
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