Blog Reviews by Bloggeries

If you are looking for a blog that provides a perfect blend between a personal blog and a great story, then you will want to check out The Homeless Guy Blog.  The Homeless Guy is the perfect blog for anyone who loves human interest stories. This is a blog that has been created by Kevin Brieux, who has spent much of his life being homeless, and says ‘there is more to homeless people than being homeless’. He uses the blog to teach people about homelessness, create awareness, and give an inside look at just what life is like as a homeless person. You can see this for yourself through any of the most recent bloggeries which include: Nothing So Constant  As Change, What a Dilemma, How Much Worse will Things Get?, Train Wreck, and What’s Life Without Purpose?. 

The blog offers a clean blogspot template and this makes it very easy to navigate.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and there is a right sided navigation system.  Bloggeries are in white text on blue background and the blog is bordered in grey.  In the right sided navigation bar you will find the About page, a Donation Link, a Cuss-Meter which is a cute feature showing that there is 0% profanity used on the blog. In this navigation system you will also find Twitter Updates, which is another one of Kevin’s blogs and then a feed listing of Blogging about Homelessness, which is a running feed of other blogs pertaining to the issue that readers may find interesting. The navigation system is very well organized and contains many other blog essentials such as Archives Menu, Blogroll, and another link for donation.  In the footer of the blog you will find a poll pertaining to issues of interest for the blog. 

Overall this unique concept  blog gets a 4/5 at the time of review.  It is a blog that addresses a serious issue in a serious manner while remaining funny and sarcastic at times.  The content is well written and is done in a tone that any reader would be able to relate to. Many bloggeries have no image and are just text; I’d try and include an image every post or almost every. Also maybe show one less bloggery on the front page so there isn’t as much content being shown with no toolbar. Activity scores are near perfect with bloggeries coming in every few days if not every day, and the blog contains all essentials thus making it very easy to navigate.   Thus, this blog is an excellent blog on almost every level, and only needs a few tweaks to amp up its potential even more.

- Chrissie

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Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog today, and this blog is known as The RhodesTer Chronicles.  The Rhodester Chronicles, as the header tells us, is playfully pondering the universe in a strong personal voice on this personal bog. The Rhodester Chronicles is found on its own domain at and is a blog that literally chronicles all that is good, funny, or interesting in the life of the blogger.  The blog is lacking an About page, but you can get to know the blogger better through any of their recent bloggeries: The 4th of Julie, Bad Boys, The Prestigious Palm Springs Savant and Co., RHODES? Where are we going?, A Brush with the Law, VLOG! Yes, VLOG, and WHOA, Like…..

For best navigation the blog is best viewed through Firefox, but overall the clean template of the blog design offers ease of navigation.  Bloggeries are left marginalized, and are in black text on white background with links highlighted in blue.  In the right navigation bar you will find Subscription Info, Categories Menu, Recent Comments Menu (known as Snarky Remarks), Archive Menu (known as In the Vault), Recent Viewers widget, and some blog directory widgets.  Because the blog is a personal blog and is much ado about anything, the Categories Menu contains a little bit of everything relevant to the blogger in categories such as quest Posts, Hall of Fame, Hollywood DAZE, Perilous Pics, Raving Reviews, and so much more.  Each bloggery is accompanied by at least one, but generally several, relevant pictures that add meaning and humor to the bloggeries.

Overall this blog gets a 4.65/5 as it is organized well and has a unique flavor to it.  From a content perspective, the content is fresh and written well enough to make me laugh out loud, and was an enjoyable read, however a higher score here would happen if the activity was a little more consistent. Currently the blog is being updated every few days, and daily activity would more than likely get this blog close to perfect.  The appearance of the blog is well done also, with a clean template and a wide variety of colors and pictures and no advertising to offer distractions.  From a navigation standpoint the blog is well organized to ease navigation, however I would suggest the blogger add an About Page, as otherwise it is very difficult to determine the purpose of the blog. This blog is very creative and I appreciated the unique touches in the side bar with its quirky menu titles that offer a humorous tone to the blog, a tone that blends well with the blog content.  All in all, the content will push this blog far, as the Rhodester Chronicles was an enjoyable blog to read, and it should do very well.

- Chrissie

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Bloggeries is going to look at another personal blog, and this blog is called Pinoy Dreamer.  Pinoy Dreamer is a blog that ‘started in dreams, and ended in reality’.  The blogger is a 20 year old blogger from the Philippines, and is currently working on his CPA.  He has been a writer since elementary school and has always enjoyed writing essays, sports reviews, and more.  The blogger wishes you will join him on his quest of making his dreams a reality. He has started from scratch and has not gained anything yet, but is still dreaming that his efforts will not be wasted.  He wishes you will join him and together he and his readers can make their dreams a reality.  You can see what he means by this by checking out any of his most recent bloggeries:  The after grad sentiments, Extending My Traffic Sources, PDmo#2, I’m Back, No More Monthly Hosting Bills for Me, I’ve Spent $7.15 for a New Blog, The Making of a CPA: Some Useful Tips to Consider, and How to Properly Account Your Blog’s Income Part 1: Recognizing Revenue.

The blog does have somewhat of a busy theme, and this compromises its navigation somewhat.  The blog offers a top navigation system, as well as two right marginalized navigation systems.  Bloggeries are left marginalized and are in black text on white background and the blog theme and animations almost have a comic book theme to it.  In the top navigation bar you will find links to the Home page, About, About Me, Contact Form, Free Pinoy Blog Reviews, Privacy Policy, and a Sitemap.  In the left sided navigation bar you will find some advertising and a categories menu that contains categories such as Blogging Issues, Business, Games, Humor, Internet, Lifestyle, Opinion, Politics, Religion, and more.  In the far right navigation bar you will find the blogroll, Archives Menu, and Recent Posts Menu.  Moving down you will find this blog also offers a navigation system in the footer. Here you will find quite a bit of blog meat that you may have missed such as Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Most Comments (Top Commentators), Recent Readers widget, Popular Entries, and more information about the blogger.

This blog will get a 2.6/5 for now, but I attribute this primarily to the fact that this is a fairly new blog and with some time and some tweaks this blog will do well.  From a navigation standpoint the blog is a little disorganized with so many navigation systems.  The top navigation bar offers two about pages, and one should be deleted to maintain a professional look.  In the first about page the reader is taken to a standard wordpress page and this should be deleted.  As for the about page itself, I am not quite sure what this blog is about. It appears to be a personal blog, but the blogger only writes about making dreams a reality and does not quite specify what the intention of the blog is.  The blogger needs to clarify this for his readers a little bit.  I did find more information about the blogger in the blog’s third about box, which is located in the footer of the blog. Unfortunately I did not see this until well into the review, and this may affect the blogger’s credibility with its readership if the readers can not connect fully with the blogger. Moving this will improve the visibility of the blogger as well.  The content is well written and in a strong personal voice that readers will identify with, but activity is weak with content coming in with a week or more in between bloggeries.  For such a young blog, I do recommend much more regular, if not daily, bloggeries to bring in traffic and to sustain the credibility of the blogger.  This blog however does offer a lot of potential, and with a little organization it could be a very good blog for its readership. Finally I noticed many ad spots available; you may wish to try our blog directory affiliate program.

- Chrissie

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