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ProBlogger by Darren Rowse

blog reviewI’m trying hard to avoid the obvious. The blogs that everyone knows and likes. The ones that need no further introduction and don’t invite any critizism. Pro Blogger falls under that category for sure.

Darren has granted me an interview on my blog and the more he says, the more he convinces me that he understands blogging and the concept behind it, more than anyone I know. ProBlogger discusses anything that relates to blogging.
Darren is very big on tips as well:

Adsense Tips and News
Advertising Tips
Affiliate Programs
Blog Design Tips and News
Blog Promotion Tips
SEO Tips
Writing Content Tips

I’m just a normal guy. If anything I’m a little shy. he has told me.
If this is true, he has definitely found the perfect outlet in blogging.

Out of all the blogs in the world, ProBlogger is my absolute favorite, since it’s taught me more about blogging than anyone or anything else.
He also has guest bloggers such as Lyndon from FlockBlog sharing Ten Tips for writing a Blog Post.

All in all I believe that this blog will be around and getting even better for many more years to come. It’s a must visit. A 5 star plus! Thank you, Darren for providing us with so much great information and so many solid insights.

– Mike
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Review of ~da greyscale world

Rated 2 at Bloggeries

~da greyscale world: when da real one waznt good enuf. Along with this less than articulate block of text, visitors are greeted by an impressive custom black and white header. As I looked through this blog, I realized that it’s only strong point were the integration of pictures and graphics. Other than that, I wasn’t very pleased with it.

To begin with, the blog has a dark background with white text. Although this color scheme can work for certain web sites, I don’t ever believe it’s good for blogs (way too hard on the eyes). However, in the case of this blog, it almost works out, due to the lack of content. When it comes to blogs, there is one thing that can make them or break them: content. Now it’s not necessary to update a blog four times a day, but any respectable blog should be updated daily (even if it’s only with a picture, video or news story). In the case of ~da greyscale world, although it has been online since February 2006, it only contains nineteen posts.

Of these nineteen posts, most read like a giant run-on sentence. Most blogs don’t need to have flawless grammar, but it is a little ridiculous to try and read an entire post that is the equivalent of a text message. As I said earlier, the only redeeming quality of the posts are that they have quite a few pictures integrated (although a few of the pictures are missing due to uploading errors).

I wish I could right more, but honestly there is not a lot that caught my attention. Overall, ~da greyscale world is a good example of a personal blog that started out with good potential, but slowly fizzled away due to lack of motivation. Creating a blog is not an easy task, but if you are willing to invest the time and effort, you will be very pleased with the end product.

-Tyler Banfield
A Day in the Life

Gazotto.com – Gadgets, News, Reviews, Technology

blog reviewI’m very suprised revisiting Gazotto after quite some time. Only a few months ago this blog was started by Jonathan Lukas, and in a short period of time he has managed to not only add a good number of posts, they are quality and interesting as well.

Jonathan manages to capture the world of technology and packages it into a nice format made for a blog. Whether you want to read about the the first cell phone with a 3.2 megapixel camera in America or a washable keyboard from Unotron … if you add Gazotto to your list of blogs to read, you will be guaranteed to get heads up on what is new, hot and what is in the making.

Microsoft ends support for old windows systems is just another example for a techie post that is of interest to everybody.

No, one thing Jonathan’s blog is not, it’s geeky. “Geeks are cool now” anyways, or so I’ve heard (well maybe somebody has lied to me).

Either way, I give Gazotto a 4 as well. I see a definite 5 in its future though. I can’t give any other advice right now than “keep on going and doing what you’re doing”. You’re on the way of becoming one of the best tech blogs of all times. Congratulations in advance!

– Mike
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