If you can operate a keyboard you are important enough to have an opinion. The blogosphere (blog community) merely provides the previously oppressed with a voice, incidentally loud and interesting enough to begin a mass following. According to wikipedia, the online Moses, a blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order. All that this jargon means is that a blog is your very own online diary, where the publishing process of web articles is made more feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Like the latest Pokemon craze, every entity on the planet has a blog. This column is therefore aimed at combing the blogosphere to poke fun at the truly dull, lame, and uninspired, while; accolading the brilliant geniuses of the virtual world.
Background & Content: This blog has recently morphed from being called “shutterview” to “3jobBlog”. The content remains hilarious and independently informative, the only change seems to be that there is a slight concentration on Nics personal life, which makes for amusing yet touching browsing. Blog Urchins will find Nics earlier portrait posts stimulating and thought provoking. “Township smiles” in particular, will live in the dusty vestiges of my sentimental mind for some time to come. Nics recent posts vary from truly hilarious to truly mundane, all with the lighthearted sincerity of a true blogger. Also, information in many posts featured on this blog is very often referenced which is a commendable feature indeed. There is brilliant commentary and helpful links to sites such as: Breathing Earth (fascinating and threatening is this planet), Hello Peter, Pbwiki, Gregoogle, etc. Nic combines his journalistic skills with his keen technical dexterity to provide the blogosphere with quality posts for instance; the online relaunch of Time magazine was timeously (mind the pun) documented much to my great excitement.
Presentation: Decent graphics and a very user-friendly layout. Although I must admit, from an aesthetic perspective I prefer the “shutterview” theme to the “3joblog” theme; but, the font in the current theme is grand – so an even compromise perhaps. Moreover, apart from the recent change of urls, my time spent on this blog was serenely unproblematic. All links work and I’m lead to believe that script errors are non-existent.
Verdict: www.nicharalambous.com is something I would subscribe to and pay actual money for. For the same reason that we watch shows like Bridget Jone’s diary and passions, the blogosphere will eternally be addicted to blogs such as this one. Readers of this column you will do well to spare just a few of your precious surfing minutes to give this blog a browse. Here’s to keeping it nice and clean Nic. Thumbs up buddy. You are in the land of milk and honey as far as virtual nirvana goes. You have my blessings, go forth and blog.
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