Blog Reviews - Flippery Fish

I've been looking through the listings of blogs in the 2003 Weblog Awards and visiting those I've not been to before. My impressions on The Flippery Fish are as follows:

Red Ted Keeps a Diary - a conversational diary worth a look,

Kevin Walzer's Blog - introspective, commentary on culture and events,

Nasty Riffraff - Dean-loving, Bush-hating political blog,

Cavalier Attitude - Alliance member in good standing, worth a vote,

Listen, My Children... - a woman's cultural and political commentary, worth a visit,

Kevin Donahue - conversational, esoteric,

The Gagalac Style - sports, games, from Hawaii,

Ryan Reynolds' Weblog - personal keepsakes from Indiana newspaperman,

Pstupidonymous - Alliance member in good standing, worth a vote,

Me and Ophelia - conversation and cultural commentary, worth a vote,

Dead Man Blogging - religious blog,

On Beyond Azure - esoteric soul-searching without capital letters,

Obsidian Wings - political and cultural commentary,

Swanky Conservative - political blog with cultural commentary,

srah blah blah - multilingual female academician being esoteric,

Letters From Baghdad - no caps, no links, no punctuation in letters from Iraq,

Sweetness Follows - esoteric, strong sexual focus, no pix.

Of note is that my review was quick and the above results should be viewed in that context.

[Update 12/11/03, 12:20am] Jasmine Petal made the following clarifying comment regarding my admittedly perfunctory review of Letters From Baghdad.

While Letters From Baghdad does not utilize capitalization it most certainly DOES HAVE links and punctuation. I wonder if you made more than a perfunctory glance -- you may have mentioned the most amazing and intense love story and grueling days of an infantry grunt.

You wonder if I made more than a perfunctory glance. I don't know why you wonder since I clearly stated it was a quick review and the results reflect a quick review.

There was no desire to disparage the blog, however, in performing a quick review, without capital letters and paragraphs it is almost impossible to scan the content effectively. Therefore, I completely missed the love story. With a million or more blogs competing for visitors' time, you've got to expect that a non-reader-friendly format is going to work against getting your story read.