SHINY SHINY MEDIA!

I’m loving the shiny media blogs already, or maybe just the one I’ve had a good old looking at: Dollymix. Its fab, and I reckon it does exactly what its meant to which is focusing on femininity, women’s rights, and all that stuff us girlies love without the shiteness of the oh-so-loveable celeb goss.

It goes from funny to serious, there are a variety of humorous clips from the one-and-only ‘youtube’ with spoofs of the famous Thelma and Louise (check it out), along with the more serious comment pieces by women writing for the blog.

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There is a links bit under the main navigation bar at the top of the page, which categorises the stuff that women apparently find important (I wont speak for everyone):

· Sex and relationships
· Health and beauty
· Women on top
· Politics
· Feminism
· Family

Don’t get me wrong, there are some bits about celebs, but its not a bitch fest of ‘she looks fat’ and ‘she’s had a boob job’ its questioning why these certain celebrity women are being slated, and relating to the topic in some way.

All the categories have the funny bits and the more series approaches.
In my opinion, this gives the blog a balanced agenda, the small articles are suitable for the easy read; maybe aimed at ladies at work, at leisure, on the train to work etc?
Overall working well as a blogzine.

Five or six posts are put up each day (on average) this is on the main page, they are all categorised instantly, so that the link bar (I was talking about) it updated straight away.

Advertisements fill the blog well, there’s not too many. (Which for me is always a bit of an issue, I don’t like it basically.)

Standard credit card ads, ‘lastminute.com’, ‘orange’, and an appropriate ‘celebs with no make-up on’ google ad at the top (yes, cheers google guys, makes us women feel better obviously) are the only main advertisements.

Personally, associating to companies I know which are advertising on a web page, instantly make me think about the popularity of the website;
Having ‘orange’ and ‘lastminute.com’ using Dollymix to advertise, gives the impression the website is widespread and frequently used.