Monday, 24 September 2007

Who Ate All The Pies

Who Ate All The Pies is a football blog, although it's not a serious one. It posts frequently each weekday - on the 24th September, there were 14 entries posted up to 'What was Marco van Basten doing at the Chelsea game?' - and the blog is written by more than one person. Every post is tagged so if someone wanted to search for a story about Chelsea, they could just click the tag link, which would then take them to a list of stories under the tag. There are also sister blogs for certain football teams like Arsenal, Manchester United etc. The entries that are posted have a varied subject matter, ranging from news and rumours to match reports to more humorous posts. The tone of most of it's posts seem to be very light-hearted.

Users can interact with the site in a variety of ways. It has permalink, allowing users to see the blog post on it's own. Users can also comment on posts, although to do that they must also enter a security code for security reasons, and they can also rate the article via other social networking sites like Digg. Users can also become a member of the site by signing up to the community. They can set up their own profile and they can submit videos.

The layout of the site is good. Whilst, compared to other football blogs, it offers a lot more in the way of features, it doesn't appear cluttered; instead it is tiny and efficient. The variation of the posts is also a plus point as is the humourous side to the writing.

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