The Bloggers With The Most To Say
Blogs with Good Writing, Blogs with Good Content, Blogs with Panache
DO NOT POST YOUR BLOG ON THIS THREAD. PLEASE USE THIS ONE TO RECEIVE YOUR EVALUATION.
I'm looking to increase my blogroll something fierce. I'd just run through all of the other "I want more blogs" threads, but responses to these threads are overflowing; I have trouble finding the ones I'd genuinely like. I have a solution.
Simply post your link on the companion thread, and I will evaluate your blog on three criteria, namely:
1. Grammar and style, including whether you have the correct proportion of capitals and ellipses.
2. Content, specifically the depth. On my internal rubric, personal blogs that stay within the standard day-in-the-life framework of a journal will likely fail. The more insightful your blog, and the more interesting to outsiders, the higher the grade.
3. Finesse and personality, traits that in part depend on the quality of your writing, rather than your mastery of subject or technical details.
This way, grammar sticklers can find their favorite blogs, those sick of reading about some stranger's kids, spouse or breakup can avoid an online journal, and those more interested in that fuzzier evaluation of good writing can find them.
Three grades will be awarded for each category: fail, pass and exceptional. If I overall really, really like your blog, I'll mark it as recommended. This is analogous to a star on a Booklist review --- it's totally subjective. If you don't get it, others might still love your blog, and it doesn't mean I hate you.
Example report card:
Blogger: Brandy.
G --- Fail. Internetese somewhat or highly prevalent.
C --- Pass. Personal anecdotes common, but a cut above.
F --- Exceptional. Excellent voice.
Overall: Recommended.
I'm looking to increase my blogroll something fierce. I'd just run through all of the other "I want more blogs" threads, but responses to these threads are overflowing; I have trouble finding the ones I'd genuinely like. I have a solution.
Simply post your link on the companion thread, and I will evaluate your blog on three criteria, namely:
1. Grammar and style, including whether you have the correct proportion of capitals and ellipses.
2. Content, specifically the depth. On my internal rubric, personal blogs that stay within the standard day-in-the-life framework of a journal will likely fail. The more insightful your blog, and the more interesting to outsiders, the higher the grade.
3. Finesse and personality, traits that in part depend on the quality of your writing, rather than your mastery of subject or technical details.
This way, grammar sticklers can find their favorite blogs, those sick of reading about some stranger's kids, spouse or breakup can avoid an online journal, and those more interested in that fuzzier evaluation of good writing can find them.
Three grades will be awarded for each category: fail, pass and exceptional. If I overall really, really like your blog, I'll mark it as recommended. This is analogous to a star on a Booklist review --- it's totally subjective. If you don't get it, others might still love your blog, and it doesn't mean I hate you.
Example report card:
Blogger: Brandy.
G --- Fail. Internetese somewhat or highly prevalent.
C --- Pass. Personal anecdotes common, but a cut above.
F --- Exceptional. Excellent voice.
Overall: Recommended.
Replies to This Discussion
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Permalink Reply by eyeingtenure on
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If you want.
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Oh, and you commented while I was still working on cross-linking the two threads. I'm done, now.
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Everything on the front page. If I were to go through the whole archives, that really wouldn't accurately describe what your blog is now, or what new readers would get out of it.
Limiting myself to the recent stuff isn't just a way to save time, either; it also identifies the strength of your focus, namely if can I tell what it is just by reading the last five entries, you're probably in good shape?
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Permalink Reply by brandyismagic on
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I fail grammar and style but make up for it with personality? I'm happy with that, but concerned that maybe I'm in the wrong profession since you know,... I'm attempting to teach children about grammar.
I'm also going to be very self conscious of my strange love for capitals and ellipses in all future posts, but I suspect I will not change because DEAR GOD I LOVE ELLIPSES.
I'm also curious- how exactly do you define 'internetese'?
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I used to just have Grammar and Content as the two fields, but I decided on adding a third. I like your blog, but that two-criteria system wouldn't explain why.
Internetese: Something you'd find in AIM but not in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. Includes emoticons, excessive elipses, LOL, et al.
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Permalink Reply by Angela on -
Part of me wants to submit my blog. Another part of me thinks that this is kind of an offensive thing for you to be doing.
Inner dilemma.
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Read what I wrote, and then tell me what you think.
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on -
I'm completely with you. I'm almost mildly offended by this. People can write what they want, and people can read what they want. No one really needs someone to "objectively judge" (if anyone can truly do that) everyone's blogs.
But if people are submitting themselves, I guess I can't complain.
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There have been plenty of people who wanted the critique. Read through what I've written on that thread, and then tell me what you think.
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It would be offensive if I systematically went through the membership, judging it. People submit, and then they're critiqued.
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