I am terribly behind my schedule for blog reviews. Today I would like to take a look at The Repeal of Gravity Blog, a blog of a guy running for president of the United States of America next year, Louis J. Cassorla. Not sure how serious he is about the presidency, but he surely is serious about blogging.

Louis wrote me a note asking for a review. I believe it will be good to post it here.

I would be thrilled to have you review my blog. I’m not getting nearly as much traffic as I would like. I’ve been trying to post more often recently. All content is original. Sometimes I worry my posts are too long. Sometimes I wonder whether my interests just aren’t appealing to other people.

Please do make your review of my blog available for public viewing. Thanks. And good luck with your own blogging!

First of all I would like to say that The Repeal of Gravity Blog looks great. It is one of the very few Google Blogger blogs I actually like. Very clean. Pictures fit in very nicely. Read the rest of this entry »

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When it comes to blogging John Chow is the man. How do I know? Just look around. Almost every blog about blogging mentions his name. Moreover, John Chow has fans, who imitate him, at least his blog. Jason Neuman is one of them.

His blog indeed looks very much like John Chow’s, and not just because they use the same theme an both of them have cars in the header image. Structure and content wise Jason’s blog is very similar to John’s too. Just like John, Jason blogs about cars. He also has make money online bait. The copy is pretty much straight forward, without any tweaks.

One thing that impressed me the most is that they both have same PageRank of 5. Coincidence? Maybe.

Why would anyone want to imitate John’s blog? I have no idea. Maybe Jason himself can shed some light on this.

It becomes harder and harder to keep up with the rapidly growing number of blogs. Often there are hundreds of blogs covering same topic. Even finding all of them is not an easy task. Thats when aggregators come in to help. inBlogs is one of them. It is an ad-free aggregator, focused on web-related blogs. It was launched just recently, but there are already over 50 blogs being aggregated by the service. inBlogs functionality is very simple. You get a list of the latest posts from the registered blogs.

Highlighted posts come from the blogs of the inBlogs’ friends. Everyone can become a friend by donating a certain amount of money.

The idea behind inBlogs is quite good. It is very convinient to read recent posts on certain topic in one place. However, it seems like just posts aggregation is not enough. There should be more services. Hope they are coming in the future.

Ever wondered if you should drop your full-time job and go freelance? If you did, you probably should. Especially now, when you can read FreelanceSwitch.com, and get all the help you need to make this transition, as well as to stay freelance.

FreelanceSwitch.com is a community & great resource for freelancers of all varieties — designers, writers, programmers, illustrators, photographers, you name it. Blog is not even a month old, but it already has other 4000 subscribers. What about that, John? How did they do it? Check out How We Took a Blog From 0 to 2000 Subscribers in just 12 Days. Blog is growing slowly, but surely.

Honestly speaking their success is not surprizing at all. Supurb design, clever, solid-rock content, and a bit of wise promotion — thats all it took to attract and keep great number of visitors. There is a great team behind this blog. I am sure Freelance Switch will flourish together with all freelancers who read it. Count me in!

I always treasure others opinion about what I am doing. Opinions are very educational, and give some insight on what can be done to improve things.

I am not huru or an expert in design or blogging. However I have been around for some time already, and I believe I can contribute to others work by providing an honest opinion.

The reason I am doing this give-away is very simple. For me, as professional web-designer, it is so painful to see blogs with great content, but with an utterly poor design or terrible usability. Blog owners may say, that they like it this way (thats what many of my clients say). Many treat their websites just like their home, where they do whatever they want. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as your site is just a homepage that will be seen by relatives and friends only. If it something beyond that, personal preferences should not be as strong. You will want to have a website, that others will like. Thats when others opinion is crucial.

How will this give-away work? You can leave a request for review in the comment section of this post. Please provide blogs URL, your name and the purpose of your blog. Feel free to ask particular questions. Also do state clearly whether you want my review of your blog to be published on Blog Reviews. By default I assume that you want it to be public.

I am open to review blogs in any language. However if it not English, there will be no feedback on the content, just design.

Please do not ask to review blogs without individual content, as well as blogs that promote nudity, sex or violence. Politics is not a matter of great interest either. Other than that, any blogs deserving public attention are welcomed.

Reviews are free and no link back is required. I do not mind you linking back, though!

I am thinking to start with 3-4 reviews per week. Will see how it goes.

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Nowadays it is not as easy to find great blogs as it seems. There are millions of blogs out there, but many are just not worth any attention. Browsing Networthless blog I found a link to this really unique photo blog, Shorpy.com. Here how the authors describes their photo blog:

Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

If you have some 100-year-old photos you can submit them to the collection as well.

Idea is great! Implementation is very good too. Even glossy RSS buttons and ads of digital cameras do no harm. This photo blog is definitely very special!

You may have heard of John Chow’s Make Money Online blog. If not, first thing you probably thought of after reading its name is “oh, another blog about making money online”… Well John’s blog indeed has some great posts about making money online, but there is a whole bunch of other things too. John is blogging about technology, cars… fine dining, things all men like. Whats so special about these topics? There must be something, otherwise John would not have over 4000 RSS subscribers. Read the rest of this entry »