I think it might be helpful at this juncture to provide a reminder in the form of a little background of
HUMOR-BLOGS.COM's formation. It was indeed the result of the hyperactive imagination and attention span of Diesel, author
and chief inspector of
Mattress Police. He conceived of Humor-blogs.com as as a site listing humorous or funny blogs where one could go to get their laughs on as the name might imply. He had a guideline of what would qualify a blog as such and bloggers came a knocking. Then more bloggers wanted in and the gates were thrown open until even Edna St. Vincent Millay wanted in. Never mind that she's no longer alive. Not important. Our job is to find out if some of these bloggers are.
With that in mind, Diesel then conceived of a review process to "rank" the blogs in order to weed out some of the less than humorous blogs. Of course humor, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The system is not perfect, but it does allow for each of the blogs to be showcased and rated and you the reader to judge for yourselves. Nobody is saying the blogger is not perfectly nice. Remember, this is not a cease and desist order to stop blogging - it's a review of the level of humor contained in the blog.
Okay, long intro over. I think this week's blog,
Speedcat Hollydale Page runs into the not humor enough problem plaguing some of the recent reviews. I'll be brief as there's not much to add to the reviewers' comments below. This blogger's main post topic seems to be links and awards. In other words, not terribly funny. I guess a blog should have a gist but sorry SpeedCat, the links/awards/memes posts can work judiciously as filler posts - maybe once a week, not daily. I did find the post about posting pics with your "golf buddies" to be amusing though. See it wasn't a meme or a link, it was original content. Let's see what the reviewers had to say:
| Category | Score | Points |
| Content | 4.23 | 30/70 |
| Writing | 5.23 | 3/5 |
| Web Design | 4.23 | 2/5 |
| Intangibles | 3.85 | 2/5 |
| Read Regularly | 0.77 | 1/10 |
| Frequency | 8 | 4/5 |
| Total | | 42 |
Percentile Rank: 5The first 5 or 6 posts are nothing but tags/memes. How annoying. Save that forward stuff for emails. I didn't bother reading many of the other posts, they were either too long or put me to sleep in the first sentence.
I'm not getting funny from this blog. And again with the white text on black background. Huge turnoff for me. Very hard for tired eyes to read.
Is there anything funny in this blog?
Wow! I see plenty of awards for being funny, but less actual funny than I would like to see.
His conversational tone is engaging, but things like golf and blog awards and grandkids are probably best suited for people who like those things or know the person. In the archives, the most interesting things for me were things that had nothing to do with the most frequently blogged about topics.
Wish him luck, not for me though.
An amazing tour de force of being slightly funny - at least it got a laugh.
Not sure I saw anything really funny here. Lots of "award" news, but nothing I would care to read more of.
Further evidence that with a few exceptions (see George w. Bush) the American People do not understand humour.
ED NOTE: With all due respect, we may have deserved above, huh Yanks?
It was very amusing!
OOOOH, does this guy love blog awards. There was really not a lot of substance here as far as stuff that was funny. If I wanted to listen to a grown man talk like a teenage girl, I'd move back in with my parents.
Is it just me or does this blog just talk about awards?
ED NOTE: How long have you had these feelings of isolation, reviewer? Alas, it's not just you.
In summation:
Looks like a pre-y2k geocities page. Lots of great ego, but nothing to back it up.
Overall something was lacking in this blog in that it didn't really feel as though I were reading a blog, but rather browsing a classified ad with all the links. I would need more than a link to my blog to keep me coming back. There were too many distractions and links to make the reading enjoyable.
Your blog might benefit from a bit of decluttering and more posts of an "original" or humorous nature, then perhaps we can talk. Good luck Speed Cat and be well.
Review posted by: G of
Simply Said