Thursday, August 24, 2006
Review on WR:TW
Unfortunately, it appears that somebody has been reading this blog. I received a courtesy email from Website Review: The Website telling me that we'd been rated. It's not encouraging reading, sadly, although this may have something to do with the reviewer being Charles Peters, an old acquaintance of Dinky's from his webdesign days. I reproduce the review below with the permission of WR:TW.
Review of Garlic's Food Clinic
This is one of the worst, possibly the worst blog I have read since I began reviewing them some two years ago.
Let us get the positives out the way to begin with. The kindest thing I can say about Garlic's Food Clinic is that it is absolute crap. It is perhaps the most empty-headed, banal, ill-thought out, illogical, groundless nonsense ever to be saved on a disc drive. If anything, the dry, leaden, needlessly repetitive and often malapropic prose is a blessing, as it prevents the casual reader from appreciating the appallingly pointless content.
As to particulars, I was in no way surprised to find the names Dinky Deer and Dave Antares associated with this rubbish. Dinky has a habit of finding himself involved in the very worst and least imaginative projects. As for Antares, I wouldn't trust him with a keyboard anymore than a cat with a canary. Perhaps left to his own devices, Hugo Lambert would have written an average blog. Somehow, I doubt it, however: his invitations to Deer and Antares show extremely poor judgement.
Regular readers of Website Review: The Website or Website Review: The Magazine will know that a good blog consists of certain components. He or she will also recognise that none of them are present here. Granted, the authors do discuss the political commentary, photographs and recipes that must be posted, but they singularly fail to present them. If they are not sufficiently discouraged to discontinue their blogging, and I hope they are, Lambert and co. might also consider posting what music they are listening to, what books they are reading and www links of interest. Of course, and here's the trick, we are not interested to hear what they are interested in. We want them to post what is expected of them. I want to hear that the blogger reads the Guardian, that he listens to Belle and Sebastian and that he has left leaning politics, although I want to understand that he is in no way intending to live his own life by them.
Not to say that some personal content isn't allowed in a blog. An occasional rant is, unfortunately in my opinion, an accepted part of blogging. Just make sure that you flag it as such, as I don't want to read it.
In summary, then, writing a blog is simple. Garlic's Food Clinic is a cyberspace disaster that fails to satisfy on any level.
Charles Peters
Review of Garlic's Food Clinic
This is one of the worst, possibly the worst blog I have read since I began reviewing them some two years ago.
Let us get the positives out the way to begin with. The kindest thing I can say about Garlic's Food Clinic is that it is absolute crap. It is perhaps the most empty-headed, banal, ill-thought out, illogical, groundless nonsense ever to be saved on a disc drive. If anything, the dry, leaden, needlessly repetitive and often malapropic prose is a blessing, as it prevents the casual reader from appreciating the appallingly pointless content.
As to particulars, I was in no way surprised to find the names Dinky Deer and Dave Antares associated with this rubbish. Dinky has a habit of finding himself involved in the very worst and least imaginative projects. As for Antares, I wouldn't trust him with a keyboard anymore than a cat with a canary. Perhaps left to his own devices, Hugo Lambert would have written an average blog. Somehow, I doubt it, however: his invitations to Deer and Antares show extremely poor judgement.
Regular readers of Website Review: The Website or Website Review: The Magazine will know that a good blog consists of certain components. He or she will also recognise that none of them are present here. Granted, the authors do discuss the political commentary, photographs and recipes that must be posted, but they singularly fail to present them. If they are not sufficiently discouraged to discontinue their blogging, and I hope they are, Lambert and co. might also consider posting what music they are listening to, what books they are reading and www links of interest. Of course, and here's the trick, we are not interested to hear what they are interested in. We want them to post what is expected of them. I want to hear that the blogger reads the Guardian, that he listens to Belle and Sebastian and that he has left leaning politics, although I want to understand that he is in no way intending to live his own life by them.
Not to say that some personal content isn't allowed in a blog. An occasional rant is, unfortunately in my opinion, an accepted part of blogging. Just make sure that you flag it as such, as I don't want to read it.
In summary, then, writing a blog is simple. Garlic's Food Clinic is a cyberspace disaster that fails to satisfy on any level.
Charles Peters
# posted by Hugo @ 7:29 pm 
