Blog Reviews
InstaPundit.Com
www.instapundit.blogspot.com
Pundit Glenn Reynolds is a law professor from the University of Tennessee. In his blog, he disseminates information about legal and
civil liberty issues. The topics he mostly writes about are: American's right to privacy, religious and race relations, cloning, the National
Rifle Association, freedom of the press, etc. The blog has links to other popular blogs.
National Review
www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
The Corner is affiliated with the National Review. The blog mostly consists of news of the day, linked from sources ranging from the
Wall Street Journal to Wired magazine to other people's blogs etc. Topics most likely to be found on the blog cannot be firmly categorized; it
can be a commentary on politics and current events, patriotic implications of the steel tariff, the final episode of the X-Files etc. Discussions
about race and religion get heated up.
Slashdot
www.slashdot.org
Slashdot showcases the latest developments in technology. Topics of discussions can be the latest hardware and software and conferences,
books, sci-fi movie effects and other similar topics. Interactivity is high: readers discuss everything from how to build a computer from scratch
to online film piracy. Journals section lets readers create their own blog-within-a-blog.
Obscure Store
www.obscurestore.com
This site dishes strangest realities. The blog contains the most unthinkable news – about finding a fried chicken head in the McNuggets
or about the one about the man who beat up his son for making out with the dog. The blog also links to straight news, gossip and an interesting
collection of other blogs.
Eatonweb Portal
www.portal.eatonweb.com
A site is linked to more than 4,700 international blogs that are searchable by 52 categories. The vast search field includes searching
by country of origin, language, keyword etc. It can get you to an authors' critique of a naive Business Week article on VC funding. It's all
there: the good, the bad and the just plain weird.
www.baseballnews.blogspot.com
This blog features a daily dose of baseball-related news from Web sites, newspapers and industry journals summarized and linked from the
main page. It also has plenty of outside links to analyses, columnists and some of the blogger's favorite team sites. The blog is linked to more
than 100 baseball-related sites, including other blogs like Futility Infielder and Transaction Oracle.
Nuzee.com
www.nuzee.com
This blog is linked to news sources from all around the world. The site is organized into top stories, business and sports, investment
news, science and health news and entertainment news etc. The blog allows reader to search the headlines by keyword.
Sullywatch
http://sullywatch.blogspot.com/
Sullywatch is full of argument and ideas. The blog has posts are long and involved and are well argued and intelligent.
Tokyo Tidbits
http://www.tokyotidbits.com/
‘Tokyo Tidbits’ is a mobile picture blog. A girl called Mie takes picture from her phone and maintains the blog. She then types the
entries before e-mailing them to the Movabletype based blog. The blog has lots of nice pictures from around Tokyo.
Peripatetic
www.peripatetic.com
Peripatetic is a personal blog by a long-time professional technologist. His writing on the music industry especially about their futile
attempts to stop people sharing files is worth reading.
Daring Fireball
http://daringfireball.net/
A mac technology blog, Daring Fireball is simple and well designed. People may it to be rude sometimes, but the posts are usually
enlightened. The author builds plugins for Movable Type as well.
WIFI Networking
http://wifinetnews.com/
WIFI Networking news is a technology blog. It is highly specialized as complete a resource for news on the technology. For example: you
can read the blog to find out the latest trend in the world of wireless networking.
Tomalak's Realm
http://www.tomalak.org/
Tomalak's Realm is a daily source of links to strategic Web design stories. Every day there are links to interesting articles with short
quotes from the story on the site. These stories provide context and is a helpful resource. Topics mostly covered are: e-commerce, usability,
intellectual property, online journalism, consumer electronics/technology, futurism, governance and other related subjects...
BlogRolling
http://www.blogrolling.com/
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist you can use for your blog. The blog helps you to manage your need for constantly evolving linklist
with ease.
The Daily Post
http://www.thedailypost.net/
The Daily Post is a group blog - there are two primary people who post but others drop in with their own opinion. The site has a nice
mix of interaction between the members about politics, daily life, books being read etc. The design of the site is a simple and has two column
designs.
The Gerbilarium
http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/thegerbilarium/
The Gerbilarium is a personal weblog written by someone with a sense of humour. The site design is simple. The side bar is a simple list
of links to other areas of the weblog and different websites. The site also include short stories, opinions on different subjects, reviews of
mostly hip-hop related stuff and some well written spoof news stories. All of the content has a humorous bent to it and mainly relates to
personal things.
The Mad Dater
http://themaddater.blogspot.com/
The blog dedicated to tales of dating experiences, one night stands, and all about relationships. TMD is a woman and her men thrashing
blog is definitely entertaining., The writer knows what and how to give what readers want – style is like reading a tabloid. The design is clean
and nice.
Urban Scrawl
http://demon.twinflame.org/
The website is called Demonblog. Marcus is the weblog author. White and black are the two colors used in the design scheme. Humor is
added using a random quote listed between each weblog entry, from Robin Williams to Denis Leary’s perils of wisdom etc. The posts are
entertaining. Marcus portrays himself as being quite worldly and intelligent that makes reading his thoughts real. The site has several links to
flash games.
Johnny America
http://www.johnnyamerica.net/
The site is a group blog. All the authors are skilled writers with each one of them having a distinct voice. The website has something
for everyone - reviews of everything from bars to books to movies to restaurants and wonderfully written fiction. Each entry stands on its own.
The design is as simple as can be and it perfectly fits the tone of the site. The website has a few amusing extras such as emails having to do
with an "Am I Hot Or Not?" experiment, and an odd little Questions and Answers page.
Adversity
http://chaos.gleeb.com/
Adversity is a strong and opinionated blog. It has direct, precise and informative opinions. The blogging style is refreshing and is
easily acceptable as the author has some writing ability. The blog is centered on the day-to-day proceedings of the author. The sitre design is
good. Navigation has been wisely done. There are extra site features like articles etc.
brainrazor
http://www.brainrazor.com/
The tone of the writing style is pompous as it uses big words. The style is occasionally flowery. Once adjusted to the writing style,
readers get used to the posts and may find the entries are often funny and insightful. The website has random links and images on the page that
helps making reader participation quite cosy.
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