The architecture of this blog is quite nice, although one problem is that the links at times don't look like links they look like text, users need to realize instantly that the text is clickable, so when I first browsed this blog I thought all the pages were empty.
However, its really very well organized. I don't know why there is a plate of nuts and dates on the side but I appreciate the use of all kinds of apps like the fish app (though that is irrelevant) and the globe with visitor stats.
I actually don't know a lot about Tumblr, so am not sure whether the site hosts apps, visitor stats or linking tools or pages, however, the class did set up sitemeter which will give them quite a lot of information about visitors. The blog is not organized in the way that the above blog is but instead the posts look like a journal, which is fine when you're doing a personal blog but not very conducive to browsing a groups work. The reason this is inconvenient is that a user has to scroll constantly and also go backwards in time (this structure is a temporal one that would work for like a ship's log) and the user has to go to the bottom of the page to then click on the next page.
The layout is nice and clean though and the mast head makes it clear immediately what the blog is about.
This is a pretty dadaesque blog with a legend borrowed or "appropriated" from Margritte's painting which I showed to all of you, a detail that should be appreciated, the dada humour does not end here though, the site deliberately reveals its own constructedness and mocks itself. I'm not sure if I appreciate my name being bandied about in the URL but I suppose thats part of the Dada spirit of revolt against authority.
My big problem with this blog is that I'm not sure whether it reflects the attitude and understanding of the entire class or of one particular individual, but even in this the blog is a piece of art so I'm going to have trouble deciding between this one and the Tuesday class.
FINAL DECISION
Maybe I should get the main campus a large poster saying c'est n'est pas donut
I think that would be a great reward, engaging with art and awarding it would deflate the piece somewhat.
Conversely I can just get Perk chocolates for both sections.
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