In the spirit of the immortal Shiny vs. Useful graph (the quintessential 90's business graphic) here's my shiny vs. useful photography blog slash review site meta review in one simply chart. Stuff towards the top is reliable and insightful. Stuff at the right features great photography. dxomark is right in the middle for photo quality, because it doesn't feature photographs. That said, it should lose marks for having such a damn ugly flash-dependent website. Kenrockwell loses points on photo quality because, frankly, I don't like the photos of his kids. (Sorry.) His other photography can be very good, although it's usually just ho-hum with the saturation blown out. Mansurovs (now photography life) has slipped down the reliability chart since it stopped being a blog and started being more of a business. Indeed, deciding to remove the bookmark to Mansurovs from my browser is what prompted me to create this chart. I only added Ming Thien's blog to my regular bookmarks in the last couple of days and his next two blog posts were: 1) a garage sale of his old gear, and 2) a horrible article on color theory that starts out bad (with a badly designed diagram), and manages to be both impenetrably dense and wrong. Just more evidence that color theory is hard, I guess. No question Ming Thien is a great photographer — which I guess is just more evidence that you don't need to really understand color theory. Oh well, I'll persist with his site a bit longer. Cameralabs would be higher up the chart if it didn't insist on giving cameras a score based in significant part on MSRP. Both dpreview and cameralabs suffer from this (and from grading on an intangible curve — "relative to similar cameras at the time of the review"). I actually preferred it when dpreview simply said "highly recommended" or whatever. Next up, I think I'll review iDraw (which I used to create the graphic) and compare it to Artboard (which I am giving up on until it gets a major update).