Critique of Benchfly Blog

The Benchfly blog offers interesting reads for people who are interested in science, in pursuing further education and a career in the scientific field, and to know how a person who works in the scientific field lives. This blog is written by a group of authors, including Alan Marnett. The authors? writing styles are somewhat informal and very lively in tone, and effectively comes to play whether they are writing entries about the difficulties of one?s last year in graduate school or how better mechanisms have made the transport of bananas possible all year round. His blog entry writing is characterized by crisp and smart language with a slight dash of humor.

What’s so mighty about Benchfly

A particularly interesting entry is an article written by Australian writer Joanne Gibson about how she survived on the Indian staple dahl while she was in school. This entry even has a recipe for dahl. These entries, among others, give the blog a truly entertaining quality to it, making its audience not strictly confined to science enthusiasts or graduate school students. The blog?s readability is quite high.

The blog entries include a comment link that is usually populated with a couple of entries, testifying to the popularity of the blog. The layout of the blog is very clean and refreshing, with clean lines and the nifty use of green and orange in the subcategory headings. There is a search facility allowing readers to look at previous entries that relate to a particular topic, links to top channels or categories, Benchfly?s Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds, and the most popular entries, plus a poll. The blog is well-maintained and has new entries almost every day.

Some suggestions

Owing to the good maintenance of the site, there is not much to say about any bad points. Perhaps the blog can use the addition of an archive, where readers could click on links to previous entries by date.

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