" Things you might like to know about"

Things you might like to know about is located at www.willowlady.blogspot.com.

Like the title, this blog is cute but a little bit vague. It writes about exactly what it says; "things you might like to know about"[my emphasis]. However, unlike some of the specialist blogs I've reviewed here previously, it doesn't seem to have a specific target audience.

The first entry I landed on was about the author's girlfriend and her art work. There is a link at the bottom of the entry where you can buy the aforementioned pieces. Unfortunately the writing style of that particular entry was quite hard going as a read, with unimaginative sentence construction and challenging uses of grammar. For example six out of the first nine sentences in the fourth paragraph start with the word "She...". It'd be a small point if the entry were shorter but after over 400 words one feels the need to skip a bit. Fortunately this isn't something I did as I was studiously reviewing it!

The second entry was rather more interesting, repeating as it does a common email forward designed to scare people a little as regards mobile phone fires on gas station forcourts:

"Better to be forewarned in case this could happen. Not worth losing gas, your skin or safety. Good luck!".

This entry sums up my attitude towards "Things you might like to know about" in that it's well meaning but comes across as being a little amature in places. Nothing wrong with that, but probably something the author will aspire to change. The reference to the fantastic snopes site in the entry could do with a hyperlink* and could have been improved even further if the author had actually checked out the story they're reporting on . I did exactly that and discovered the email forward is considered to be false.

I don't want to put a downer on this blog as it was only three months old at the time of reviewing but I do feel there is room for improvement. Overall I feel that the blog would benefit from a little bit more personal information about the blogger in question. Less cut and pasting would be good as well. I'd welcome the chance to review it again in 6 months.

NM

*How to do hyperlinks.