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Sunday, August 06, 2006 :
MikeDotOrg on Bolehland
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mike says:
Omg, anyone read this article on The Star? Bloggers beware!
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I'm sure most of you have seen the review of my blog on Bolehland?
Well, here it is if you haven't...
I didn't feel like blogging today but I still felt that I should write something out for my already deteriorating readership. So what I'm doing now is I'm going to stress about what my blog really is about and try to make myself feel better about getting a one star rating.
On Bolehland, Merv (the reviewer) said that my blog came off as camwhorish. At first I kinda found that insulting, until he told me in his letter of explanaition (yes, I did write a complaint) that the camwhorish bit was where I got that rating.
Now i find that a bit wrong. Sure, Merv may respect me for being different, but I have very damn few camwhorish posts on my blog which makes me feel... well, useless.
Useless in a sense that my other posts, the ones targeted at being funny and the ones targeted at football, have been overlooked although Merv stated that he browsed my entire archives.
When I spoke to him a bit later about the review, he said that my humour, most of the time, comes off as a lil dry and hard to understand.
I can see where he's coming from because 95% of the jokes on this blog is dry dude humour.
Dude humour is the type that you watch on movies like Road Trip, Dude Where's My Car and Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
The dry dude humour which I portray here is pretty much like what you get from those movies, only dryer because here I joke and make fun of my fiends (who mostly don't blog). So, put it this way, if you don't know me on msn, let alone personally, you probably won't get 50% of the jokes.
I can understand his frustration when reading my blog because put it this way, if bloggers were movies and we were Jim Carrey, I'd probably be Bruce Almighty and he'd be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
The other 5% are the jokes only I find funny and nobody else is expected to laugh at it, but me...
Merv also asked me to consider the consequences I was going to face when going into mainstream blogging.
The problem with me is, my blog's very half cooked; a little jokes only my friends get here and a lil jokes everyone understands there.
The other problem he states in the review is the fact my fonts are small and I have since changed it because I have just realised how much it woul pain the eyes for someone who views the fonts in 'smaller' mode.
Also included in the review is the complaint that my blog has too many pictures, be it photos of myself or others, on my blog.
Well, I guess this part is his very own opinion. I haven't met someone so far yet, who says that my blog has too many pictures (cept for Merv, unfortunately)
But I think the exclusion of pictures from this post kinda makes up for the rest anyway...
On the other hand, he said I pulled of the whole red template well, so I guess I can be happy I have a nice and respected template everyone can deal with without 'hurting the eyes'.
So out of the five fags available for distribution, I minused one for the dry dude humour, one for the pictures overload and one for small fonts. On the other hand, I was praised for my red template and *ahem* camwhorish habits.
Doesn't that make me liable for... two fags?
Ah two fag one fag, at the end of the day still fags lah. What do you guys think?
p.s. To make me feel better, Merv told me that he would give his own blog no fags anyway. So does that mean if I give him four fags, I deserve five?
posted by Anonymous | 1:13 PM
3 Comments:
I disagree with merv saying your font is too small. Some of them are, but in a more general way, your fonts are just messy (might wanna try using Verdana as opposed to Times New Roman).
Everything else, I pretty much do agree with merv. I hope the review hasn't discouraged you. As always, if you're not satisfied with what we have said in our review, change your blog and prove us wrong.
I stumbled upon your blog once, no offense but your flashy red template distracted my reading on your posts.
I agree mostly of what Mervin wrote about your blog. At least the review gives you the opinion of what Mervin and I thought of...who knows there can be many more.
But nevermind about that. A blog is all about yourself. That's why I don't give a damn on getting reviewed anyway. Anyway, cheers mate! :D
kenji, my template isn't flashy red. Somehow I think your computer was a bit laggy in displaying the background which is majorly black.
But thanks for your support anyway.
And nix, I'm pretty happy with the fonts I'm using which is Georgia and not TNR.
Of course I'm not really satisfied with the review but that I've made a decision not to change the dude element in it.
So yeah, that means I won't change it...
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