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I know, I know, I posted it before. I made this!
But this time it's special. I am really hoping it might even get in the newsletter if we can all work together as a non-cultish family.

This is my movie review blog, I am doing it for my journalism degree, and it's being assessed next weekend. I get more marks for the more views and comments I have on it, and have just announced a special 24 hour movie review marathon for this weekend.

I would really appreciate all you B3tans' help to get me a better grade than I deserve!
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:48, Reply)

We'll need money.

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Zuowan, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:50, Reply)

How much are we talking
Keep in mind I am a student, so I can do a £0 lump sum, with £0 a month for life.
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:52, Reply)

My going rate is £15 per hour.

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Zuowan, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:54, Reply)

Cheaper than most
But as mentioned, I have no money. I do have a monopoly in dirty plates, and spaghetti with ketchup
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:57, Reply)

Seriously though,
It's not bad, it's just hard to give general writing advice to anyone besides "try to be critical of yourself in an informed way", "don't write for a 'market' or a 'demographic" and "keep at it".
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Zuowan, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 22:34, Reply)

needs more humor
it's nice, easy to read, very high production values but..
and this is just my opinion
i can see it being in Metro or the evening standard.
but it doesn't stand out in web. For me, and i know i can't manage this consistently, the web is place of sarcasm and massive over or understatement (Zero punctuation, Strongbad, the onion).
If the Goonies was good, it wasn't "good". It was "sooooo good that as i watched it for the fiftieth time a little bit of wee came out and stained the now brown couch that had molded to my body"
ooo also, fix the title bar header in firefox.

hmmm reading it some more, that's very impressive for one a day writing.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 22:22, Reply)

Thanks
Its nice to get more coherent criticism than 'pretty good'.
I am really annoyed about that header, can you offer any advice?
I really want the header centred, but when I put in the HTML code, it shows up.
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 23:19, Reply)

i'm pretty sure the title bar
is left align only.

i've seen some funky solutions done with php where it looks at the screen res and add the appropriate number of ..... or _____ but blogger will not support that.
plus it doesn't look that good anyway.

if you wanted to get your own hosting (if you're interested in that side of things) i heartily recommend www.bluehost.com and use Drupal as your CMS.
gives you a lot more control, and you get your own email addresses with pop3 etc.
have a look at some of the themes you can use with drupal
themegarden.org/drupal6/?q=node/2&theme=agregado
(just keep hitting the link under Random theme)
and of course, my site runs on drupal.
all in all, i like drupal.
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KittyWaste lives at Sleepingplanet.com, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 0:05, Reply)

May as well spam mine as well
jorvic.wordpress.com

Some comments would really help me aswell.. be as scathing as you like, anything will do!
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Jorvic, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 22:42, Reply)

not sure about using phrases like "full of win"
It makes sense here on b3ta, but to a journalism examiner blokey it's just bad grammar. Poetic license is fine in context, but sporadically using random things you say with your mates and on tinternet might not always be appropriate.

It's just a minor point really. Keep up the good work young one.
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mookay immune to icons since, Fri 13 Mar 2009, 0:51, Reply)