Blogbuzz

FullosseousFlap’s Comments on the Dental World and More is an interesting mix of politics and dentistry. Written with a largely conservative stance, it’s author is tackling the presidential campaign full on and appears to not be pulling punches when it comes to any of the candidates while at the same time making clear their own preference.

The author uses a lot of visual material, pictures, videos, and political comic strips to illustrate what is being written about and what they’re trying to say about the current wind in the political world and what orifice it’s probably emanating from.

A good example is a recent post in which he takes a Clinton campaign ad and answers the question it asks with “John McCain”.

Flap’s opinions are made pretty clear throughout the various postings and potshots at assorted politicians.

On a technical note, I appreciate the use of easy to read fonts, type sizes and color combination. The only eyestrain you’re likely to get on FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog would be due entirely to spending a lot of time reading it.

I think Small-Business-Online.com is a good example of a blog used primarily as a marketing tool. The site is a direct to the point, no frills blog with content that is related to search engine marketing, SEO and web promotional techniques, tactics and tips. This article “Social Networking Insider Info” is a good example which talks about social networking strategies and a series of videos related to an article on WebProNews.

While the permalink to each article is give below the article, I think that they’ve missed a trick by not having the title of the article also be a link to that article. Also I think that the site navigation could be a little bit clearer because once you do follow the permalink for an individual article it’s not always clear which link takes you back to the root of the blog. Part of this is because it looks like this is actually several blogs that are very tightly interlinked. In any event, there is useful information and links to be found there, just watch where you click or you might get lost.

e_Marketing is a blog that describes itself with the subtitle: “Online Promotion Ideas, Information, Strategies”. The first thing I noticed about it is that it’s design is fast loading and doesn’t set a bazillion cookies (I have my browser set to ask every time, you’d be surprised how many cookies some sites try to set.)

The main topic of the blog is expressed in it’s name, Just looking around for a while I ran across a recent entry called Figuring Out StumbleUpon, which led me to yet another blog with an informative Series of articles about StumbleUpon (which I’ll be going back to read).

e_Marketing appears to be loaded with a lot of tips and so on about internet marketing and the promotion and marketing of a website or blog and it’s content. I’ll be going back to this one for what I expect to be some interesting reading.

Window Shopper is a blog that has a distinct purpose, reviewing products, retailers and talking about almost any shopping or money saving issue or advice that comes to mind. It’s also about having fun with blogging. It’s got an easy to read theme that isn’t loaded down with stuff that makes it slow.

In “Christmas Shopping To Get That One Last Present” for example, there is some good advice for Christmas shopping when things are getting close to the wire and the time before Christmas is getting short.

“Cloned Meat And Dairy Products On The Shelves?” was a very serious post about the controversial issue of food from cloned animals.

“All Those Book Clubs! Buried In A Pile Of Reading Material” on the other hand, is a fun look at book clubs and what happens when you get signed up for enough of them that the books start coming in faster than you can read them.

All in all, Window Shopper is a great addition to the list of blogs to keep up with.

Simply put, BlogBuzz is all about blogging. Anything and everything related to blogging is considered fair game here. From blogging software to writing style to even some apparently touchy (well, to some people anyway) subject of blogs, advertising and sponsorship.

One of the things that you’ll see a lot of in BlogBuzz is reviews of other blogs. I’ll talk about the theme and layout, the stylesheet, the color choices, readability and, oh yeah, the content. For that I’ll try to give some idea of what that particular blog’s main topic(s) is(are).

Yeah, in a lot of (though not necessarily all) cases I’ll be weighing in with my own opinions about that author’s main topic and I won’t even consider agreeing with somebody unless that’s what I think. I’ll be as polite about it as I’m able but if I disagree with something I’ll say so.

Mostly I want to enjoy myself and maybe learn a few things along the way about blogging, writing and yes, monetizing. There. I said it. Yes, Blogging is about writing but let’s face it. These days for a lot of people it’s also very much also about earning a living and guess what? That’s *NOT* an evil thing to do.

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