In a nutshell, Lame News is about… well… lame news. Basically it is news that isn’t really reported on any major websites. Some of it is quite funny, but some of it is plain weird. In addition to all of that, there is a trivia contest that involves putting together words to get a quote from a movie. The prize? Money of course.
I have to admit - when I first visited Lame News I would have thought it was a self hosted blog if it weren’t for blogspot being in the URL. It absolutely shocked me that it is a blogspot blog. I suppose the anime chick on the header is also a plus. What else can I say - I’m a big fan of the layout.
However, as with pretty much every blogspot blog I’ve reviewed - the feed doesn’t point to the provided Feedburner feed. Every time I see a blog that does that I just can’t help but wonder how many readers it has that aren’t recorded on Feedburner.
Rating
My overall rating for Lame News is…
Content: 8/10 - It’s funny, sarcastic, and it even discusses the idiocy of the OLPC project (which I support by the way - but seriously… give those kids food and clean water, not a friggin laptop!).
Design: 9/10 - I Love it. it is clean, easy to use, and it seriously tricked me into thinking it was a self hosted wordpress blog. Just fix up that little feed issue though 
Uniqueness: 7/10 - Since it is a news blog I do have to mark this a bit lower (there’s millions of news blogs), but being funny and opinionated (like Engadget) saves it from getting a bad uniqueness score.
If you’re into random and funny blogs, I’d highly recommend checking out Lame News!
Please subscribe, or else I will cry. Do you really want to make a programmer cry?
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