Blog Review

I've been thinking about reviewing some of the Newfrontiers bloggers now that a list is coming together (30 and counting). Otherwise this blog is simply just a list...

So here are things I'd look for in reviewing a blog, anything to add anyone?
  1. Content
  2. Frequency of posts. After content this perhaps more than anything keeps me interested in a blog
  3. Design
  4. Comments. Allowed? Barred? Allowed but there aren't any?
  5. Widgets. Anything new, interesting, interactive
  6. Links. Does this blog help me find something else interesting...
Hmm, I might reduce that to 5 and score each one out of 10, giving a nice easy score of out of 50.
Ideas?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Seems like a decent list (he mumbles trying to work out what score he'll receive...)
I might cut 5. if you want to just have five criteria.

Sean Green said...

I think blogging is very subjective and in an age of constant ranking / jockeying for postions, I think listing blogs is more profitable than ranking them. We are all on the same team, have different goals to our blogs and enjoy each others gifting. Why go further than that?

I love the idea of one blog rolling up many ...

Phil Whittall said...

Thanks Sean, appreciate the comment and where you're coming from and you're right we are on the same team. I guess I was thinking of reviewing to be helpful, if someone didn't want to trawl through 30 blogs and I certainly wouldn't want it to be competitive. I wouldn't want to to be nit picky but do it in a light hearted way, but I'll certainly give it some more thought, so thanks!

Blog Review

I've been thinking about reviewing some of the Newfrontiers bloggers now that a list is coming together (30 and counting). Otherwise this blog is simply just a list...

So here are things I'd look for in reviewing a blog, anything to add anyone?
  1. Content
  2. Frequency of posts. After content this perhaps more than anything keeps me interested in a blog
  3. Design
  4. Comments. Allowed? Barred? Allowed but there aren't any?
  5. Widgets. Anything new, interesting, interactive
  6. Links. Does this blog help me find something else interesting...
Hmm, I might reduce that to 5 and score each one out of 10, giving a nice easy score of out of 50.
Ideas?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Seems like a decent list (he mumbles trying to work out what score he'll receive...)
I might cut 5. if you want to just have five criteria.

Sean Green said...

I think blogging is very subjective and in an age of constant ranking / jockeying for postions, I think listing blogs is more profitable than ranking them. We are all on the same team, have different goals to our blogs and enjoy each others gifting. Why go further than that?

I love the idea of one blog rolling up many ...

Phil Whittall said...

Thanks Sean, appreciate the comment and where you're coming from and you're right we are on the same team. I guess I was thinking of reviewing to be helpful, if someone didn't want to trawl through 30 blogs and I certainly wouldn't want it to be competitive. I wouldn't want to to be nit picky but do it in a light hearted way, but I'll certainly give it some more thought, so thanks!

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