Quick Review of Lifehacker dot com

This time I'm reviewing lifehacker.com, a very reputable blog that even has its own magazine.
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The blog is very well organized and gets you reading right from the first page with interesting and well written captions fitted with curious eye-catching titles such as, "imitate an accent to understand it better" and "How to speed up your old sluggish Android device". The front page contains a very large list of previous posts, neatly stacked. Really, the blog has something for everyone. It is very rare you'd ever find a horrendous typo or misspelled word as I'm pretty sure the site either has an English whiz writing the posts or an editor checking every post over before it goes out.

The blog looks professional and eye-catching, but not so much that it's distracting. It's easy to navigate and difficult to get lost. Bright colors in out of the way places help spice up the otherwise simple layout.

It is a very good site and I think I'll be visiting it often from now on.

Evaluating A Website

SO FOR MEDIALIT I HAVE TO EVALUATE A BLOG.
So I chose to do http://www.notch.tumblr.com because it is my current favorite blog (because I'm a nerdface).

It's really just a whole bunch of rants, opinions, news, and update logs for a java game he is developing called Minecraft (amazing piece of work, actually). Each of his posts are usually light hearted and get straight to the point while still sounding/reading friendly. You'd be surprised how many people have actually bought his game (me included) and follow his blog/Twitter.

It's nearly impossible to get lost in his posts. They're all well formulated and constructed sentences stacked into neat paragraphs and nailed together into an entry.

Notch (the owner of the blog) is Swedish and I'm not sure which language he speaks most often. I think it's English. But even then, there is the occasional spelling mistake. But this doesn't take away from any of his posts nor instill too much confusion. This man could probably write essays no problem with little more than a misplaced ' or a duplicated word.

The biggest thing however is how plain his blog is.
His blog is just a plain white template, thus drawing attention to his words. And really, his words are just plain interesting (mainly to geeknerds).
It's so plain, it fits perfectly for it's purpose. It doesn't distract, it doesn't let your eyes stray from his news, and it doesn't overload on color.
It's a simple white template with a few small graphics thrown in.
Perfect.

Thank you for reading this wall of text (if you even did).


TL;DR
You lazy TL;DR person, go back and read the post.
Notch's blog is perfect for it's purpose.

Apparently I've Been To A Lot Of Blogs

I can remember about sixteen of them but they are all terribly laid out and unusable for this MediaLit assignment thing. :/

Curse you people of the Internet.

New blog!

Now that this blog exists, I wonder what I should do with my google.sites blog.
I guess I could abandon it. The only thing on it is all my stupid fan fiction which I have on my iPod already.