Comments on: Three Reasons Why I Wouldn’t Review an A-List Blogger

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:34:30 +0000

I would like to volunteer to be your spelling & grammar checker

By: Three Rubbish Things New Bloggers Do, and Three Better Things To Do Instead | The Gospel According To Rhys

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:01:37 +0000

[...] anyway. That’s nothing against SHMB (well, it is if they ask for this and give nothing back, I talked more about it here), but I know new bloggers become disheartened and give [...]

By: cooliojones

cooliojones — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:46:26 +0000

The A-List bloggers use the little peons to keep themselves at the top, and I can’t say that I blame them. I will save all of my “review me for a linkback” and contest ammunition for when Da Hustle is larger and in charge!

By: Fair Review Project: Gospel According to Rhys | Monkeyboy

Fair Review Project: Gospel According to Rhys | Monkeyboy — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:37:10 +0000

[...] headlines did catch my eye. In addition to the entry promoting the Fair Review Project, his post on the value of reviewing big-name bloggers (or lack thereof) is really well-written, with just enough informality to be fun, but enough serious discussion to be [...]

By: Roberta

Roberta — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:53:14 +0000

I’ve reviewed John Chow and it wasn’t anything to write home about… I’m sure he didn’t even read it…. I won’t do it again, though….if my blog can’t live on my personality alone, then forget about it

By: Fair Review Launched! | The Gospel According To Rhys

Fair Review Launched! | The Gospel According To Rhys — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:14:21 +0000

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By: Webd360

Webd360 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:44:38 +0000

I agree with you and after doing my first review of this sort (a little over a month ago) I had decided to not do anymore. It was for John Chow and now that he is blacklisted by Google I don’t even know if I will get that link back from him because it seems like hes not doing it anymore.

Also, I commented a lot on his [John Chow] blog for a little period earlier and got a linkback when he gave linklove to the top commentators and I quickly saw that a group of links back from a site like that useless (although I guess it might help my pagerank a little since it was to my main page). The review me schemes don’t even give links to the main page so it really is useless.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:15:27 +0000

Sibz: Hey, if I can slag off a bunch of bloggers who get more credit than they deserve, then hell I’ll do it.

What does everybody else think? Nice bitchy post from yours truly go down well?

By: Sibz

Sibz — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:07:58 +0000

I guess I’m probably in the minority here of people who don’t really understand the blogging community or what its all about - the blogs I read are generally of people I know (or the new ones on the bbc website of Cricketers / Formula 1 drivers), and I just see them as personal diaries of the authors.

However, it seems theres a lot more to it, with the interplay between the different bloggers, the hierarchy that is created by Google, potential to make money etc. So, I’m not sure whether there are enough people like me here to make this worthwhile, but it’d be great to have a post from you, Rhys, which is “What it means to be a blogger”, or something along those lines, so for those of us outside the circle can relate to posts such as this one here I’m commenting on

By: Paddy

Paddy — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:07:04 +0000

Well explain this one! Not only have I never reviewed an A-list blogger, but I still have a page rank of zero! Hehe I mustn’t entirely get the concept of PR. Meatpaddy had 4 or something cool! Is it true they’re phasing out the whole PR thing? Or just… improving it to stop cheating to get your PR higher? I think I’m making stuff up again.