Apparently, I'm Still A Judge!I’m hitting the ground stumbling here, so I may screw this up, but here are my rulings on what I think are this week’s blogs:
ChristWeb, the Reigning King of the Blogs:
The red-and-white theme is a bit harsh/simple/stark for me, but then I’ve been told Rick’s looks like a gay bar at the moment so . . .. No link to me as a judge, but then I didn’t know I was a judge either. I like the three-column layout a lot, and the framing of the posts is nice.
The “My Thoughts” conceit is also pretty neat. Content-wise, the only post I found really interesting was the one about the Rabbi who invented a prayer for non-surfing Jews. Overall, I give the site a 7.5. One final comment: if you’re going to capitalize “News” and “Christian Views”, shouldn’t you capitalize “fun”, too?
Blown Fuse is one of two pretenders this week. Tiffany’s pictures (I assume those are Tiffany) in the title banner are great, and this blog has an immediate sense of ambiance, which I like. Unfortunately, the ambiance itself is . . . well . . . I’m pretty sure if Tiffany could figure out a way to do it, the “i"s on this site would be dotted with hearts. If you’re looking for new ways to get your boyfriend’s picture onto your (probably pink) cell phone, this is the place for you. Rick prefers a bit more depth, however, so I didn’t linger. Too much pink. (the pictures at the bottom are cool, too, though). I give it a 5, but mostly because of the pictures, and because Tiffany is a Nina Simone fan.
Vessel of Honour is, well, a bit confusing. The top is a Matrix-esque title animation, followed by a completely incongruous (but patriotic) title banner. It has little animated smileys, which are cool, but there’s a big honkin’ error message screwing up the whole page, which is not. Content-wise, I enjoyed the positive references to “the spirit of lovingkindness and charity”, which are laudable, but was disappointed by statements like “much unlike Islam, which is spread through coercion and force, Christianity is preached by ‘reasoning together’”, which are not (Crusades, anyone?). This is the weblog equivalent of a stroke victim: one half works, the other not so much. 5.
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