Blog Review: Pedestrian Observer

I don't know who "Jaywalker" is, but at least the title of "Pedestrian Observer" is a unique one. I've never used the word "pedestrian" on this blog since I started it and I probably never will (outside of this review).

"Pedestrian Observer" is a Philippine socio-political blog written by people from my part of the world — the Philippines. The issues raised aren't limited to the Philippines, however, and it makes it much easier to digest. You don't have to see it spelled out for you in the sidebars or anything, because the articles themselves make it readily apparent what kind of blog this is.

I can't say I agree with the color scheme, but to each his or her own. It's certainly colorful enough and eminently readable. [Ha! Look up "eminently" -- I'm not going to make it easy for you.] I'm not fond of scrolling and flashing things and there's at least one scrolling thing. It not hard to ignore because it's up in the header.

I know I've mentioned it before, but I hate politics. Most of the political articles I've read over the past year didn't interest me and didn't affect me one way or the other. Navigating to the top of the second page of this blog, however, caused me to focus on a few words of the first paragraph of "WEG, A Boom or Doom on RP Tourism?":

…that this Act is more likely to corrupt what is an already perceived corrupt government immigration office.

Perceived? It IS corrupt! When I was doing my immigration paperwork, after my first arrival here, my paperwork kept getting shuffled to the bottom of the stack until my wife slipped some money in with it. There were people who'd been waiting 3 days to get their paperwork through because they either didn't know about this "bribery" or they refused to pay it. It took me 1 day because of what my wife did — I didn't know she'd done it until AFTER we were on our way home. I didn't condone it and I still don't. Corruption breeds corruption.

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Political Jaywalker on 2008-01-09 at 1:51 pm (Reply)

RTC,

Thank you for taking the time in reviewing Pedestrian Observer blog, a recently transformed group blog in our drive for socio-political relevance.

Thank you also for pointing out what may have been an attempt at lame sarcasm on the immigration officials as percieved corrupt to which you categorically corrected as corrupt. This is all due to the fact that I was supposed to link the word perceive with another article that I just notice only now that I forgot to do the link, lol.

Your review has given us an outside perspective that we can use as our guide in improving our blog even more.

In the meantime I have linked this review to the article WEG, A Boom or Doom in RP Tourism? and will do a write-up regarding this soon, again our deep appreciation.

RT Cunningham | Untwisted Vortex | Philippines on 2008-01-09 at 10:26 pm (Reply)

I went back and read it after the change. Thank you.

An American Living in the Philippines

Blog Review: Pedestrian Observer