Healthcare Still Strong; DreamAct Makes Big Leap Up

Note: Again, I must stress that these rankings do not mean anything -- yet. They simply show the work being done. To emphasize, all that will count in the end is the way your blog ends up.

RANK		Content (x 2)	Design	Editing	Organization	AVERAGE
►	Healthcare Renaissance	3.5	3.5	4.0	4.0	▲3.7
▲	Dream Act	4.0	3.5	3.0	4.0	▲3.7
►	Unemployment Work Group	3.0	2.0	3.5	4.0	▲3.1
►	Taxes-R-Us	3.0	3.0	2.0	4.0	▲3.0
▲	Media Party	3.0	3.0	3.0	2.0	▲2.8
▼	Loan on Me	2.0	3.0	3.0	1.0	▼2.2

Healthcare: Excellent tagging. Although I have never cared for the “brownness” of this blog, I must admit that, with the search engine, blog archive, and label list, this is a very clean, lean layout. Very readable. I am concerned, though, that his group has 4 members and only 1 of you has posted a long essay to date.

DreamAct: Excellent work at clean up and tagging. Note, though, that a few entries are still not consistent with the rest. Impressive that you have three longer essays posted. Editing improved but still needs more work.

Unemployment: It is disappointing that there are no new posts this week, although after review, I did realize that the sidebar had been updated. This is a design/editing “flaw”: you should date these manually so that it is apparent that the blog has been updated. Also in design, the font that you have chosen, which is now at least consistent, is too small to be comfortably readable.

Taxes: Excellent work on organization. However, even though your posts have a tendency to be thorough, the lack of more regular updates is starting to affect your content rating. I still find the design problematic because the right sidebar is essentially unreadable. And an embedded search bar, instead of the generic one at the top, would be a plus in design. And there is still some inconsistency in post formats.

Media: Good work on updating the blog this week, although there is still not a single long essay posted here. Design is better, and still visually appealing, but also still difficult to navigate. Good work on tagging.

Loan: Your blog seems to have stopped growing. And as far as I can tell, there hasn’t been a single longer essay posted yet. There is no tagging/labeling, as far as I can tell, which really hit you this week in your ranking. Your design remains fun, but it is still rather difficult to navigate.