The Good The Bad & The Ugly Wednesday

Welcome to a new week of The Good The Bad & The Ugly. If you missed the previous post, this meme each week covers three blogs or websites. Despite the sound of the title it is not to bash these sites merely to introduce sites you may not have heard of and tell you a little about them. The "good" is just a general okay site, the "bad" is a little bit better/more interesting and in theory, the "ugly" is awesome and you should check it out. If you only have time to check out one, go with the "ugly".

This week is slightly different in that not all are blogs or necessarily sites you will want to visit. They are really an experiment, based on one site I have a bad habit of accidentally ending up on. Ever had your fingers type faster than your brain thought they were and instead of going to the website you wanted you end up on some other page? Sometimes you get junk and sometimes you find something nifty. So here are some mis-typed sites to check out.

In the Good category we have the generic sites which turn out to be link sites to other sites and not that exciting or informative. If you accidentally type in blogspoy instead of blogspot or wordpredd instead of wordpress you get link pages that supply links to blog related content or website related content, respectively. Not very titillating but who knows you may end up finding a great site from one of their links.

In the Bad category, we have a variation of Livejournal.com. When you mis-type it as livejournla you get redirected to specialreport.com. This site gives you the breaking news from around the globe. They have all categories of stories, and while some of the stories seemed a bit dated it was an interesting site. I caught some stories I hadn't seen before. If you are a news junkie, definitely check it out.

Finally, the Ugly. The "Ugly" site this week is the one that inspired this weeks research as I end up on it all the time when I mis-type gmail.com. I'm sure several of you have ended up there as well. The site is gamil.com, an insider look at design. Gamil is a small design company in Raleigh, NC. After noticing that they were getting a lot of unexpected traffic, they realized that people were coming to their site by mistake. Unlike most sites that would just let that information get filed away. Gamil decided to create a blog as their home page to say "hi" to those who accidentally stumbled upon them. Their blogs are random post on different subjects, some interesting, some not. But what a great idea to acknowledge and spark some interest in people who would otherwise just retype Gmail.com and go on. One of my favorite post was the one about Alchemy bags. Bags that use old bicycle tubes to make handbags. They also have several great "green" website links to check out. Two of my favorites were Treehugger and being a gadget girl, Gizmodo. Not a bad site for an accidental stop.