skykicking
"It's one of the curious aspects of pop consumption that the focus on singles (cf. non-pop's privileging of albums) allows for a much more piecemeal construction of a performer's identity. Whereas with the non-pop artists the release of an album roughly every two years allows for a monolithic and unified presentation of identity with a relatively long use-by date, with pop the staggered consumption of, say, four songs over the course of 12 months invites a certain level of indeterminabiltiy. "

With it's curiously long sentences and windy paragraphs - the first blog with entries that have some sort of progression following the introduction-body-conclusion pattern this blog was truly refreshing.

The fact that the writer(s) take a point open it, examine it and draw what conclusions they may is wholly satisfying.

This blog raised points that captured briefly my mind, it seamed that not only did they have something to say they had something worth-while to say.

So taken in fact am I with this idea of haven's something to day that I find that quite naturally I have written far more on the subject of this blog than any other.

MINUS: A little too light on the punctuation
PLUS: intellectually engaging

Rule #4: Thou shult have something worth while to say.

Revisit: Yep

Layout: 6/10 basic sensible. Great.
Look and feel: 8/10 Refreshingly un-templates (it seamed) if a little pink
Wit and amusement: 9/10 A great written style
commentary: 10/10
Extra: 5/10 As a hosted site the offer of pages not directly index linked to time and date tempted unfortunately the daftpunk.html failed to produce more than the hosts error page.

TOTAL: 76% In educational terms this is a Distinction! Highest praise indeed.   Saturday, May 15, 2004 0 comments -

 
Assistant Blog
"I play guitar and sing in Assistant, an odd, awkward pop group from Brighton. I started this blog as a way of recording band activity but it has developed into somewhat of a personal diary, although (hopefully) without the excruciating bits. "

MINUS: A little wooly around the edges and suffers from the usual ecletic assumption that all readers are regulars.
PLUS: A brilliant read, interesting, well designed (thanks no doubt to bloggers new templates)

If all blogs were like this then today's average blog would be shamed.

Revisit: YES!

Layout: 8/10 readable.
Look and feel: 7/10 nice!
Wit and amusement: 5/10 a little lacking but not in a bad way
commentary: 8/10 Good general comenty strongly written
Extra: 2/10 Nothing extra other than the quality of the content

TOTAL: 60% - A rather good score :: in education terms this is a Merit   Saturday, May 15, 2004 0 comments -

 
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WARNING UNREADABLE BLOG: "image Hosted By Anglefire" was all I could see.

0% - to be totally fair I will revisit and give this blog another chance coz I'm nice like that.  Saturday, May 15, 2004 0 comments -