A. Posts: There seems to be a sufficient quantity and quality of posts related to Mandy's focus of Love and Shakespeare. Another post or two linked to in the hub post wouldn't hurt, but everything seems fine. She varies what and how she talks about well enough, though the number of bullet-points kind of got to me after a while. The media is related and the embedded videos are discussed.She also has analysis on different kinds of media, primary, and secondary sources. Her titles tend to be nicely informative, and she doesn't have many posts that exceed a page-length without a jumpbreak. Tags could make it a little easier to visually see what she has been posting about, but she does have a search bar so that you can find key word of your choice.B. Research: The focus of the blog is made perfectly clear through the hub post, the multitude of thought-gathering posts preceding it, the supporting posts, and the design of the blog. The hub post does a fine job of linking back to posts that support the claim that Shakespeare used his own love life to help him explore love in different situations and circumstances in search of how to best capture the essence of what true love is. The Works Cited page also shows, in nice and properly formatted, all the formal sources Mandy used.
C. Personal &Social: Mandy's personality is all through the blog, in her colorful background, in her sidebar information, and in her posts. She discusses her own learning process... frequently. She also has a lot of friendly discussion in the comments-sections about what she's discovered and where she can go to find more information.
D. Design: I think the overall design of the blog is good, and reflects nicely on both the romance theme and a bright personality. Of the sidebar content only the Pandora struck me as a little non-contributing, though now that I think about it, you could say that the songs up there count as love songs and so fit back to the theme.
