if you wish to have your blogs reviewed beyond the widgets and templates; and re
Dear bloggers,
I have been reading a large number of reviews and requests for reviews. I have found, that more often than not, reviewers provide a large amount of time and discussion on the layout, the template, the widgets and so forth.
To put it mildly, we focus extensively on the technology part of it, without providing any constructive/substantive feedback (beyond 'interesting', 'wide variety' and 'good' and 'nice': words which mean little! except for putting smiles on our faces) on the content.
This, I think defeats in certain ways the real purpose of blogging: which as I understand was to democratise writing and publishing, by making it available to all. By ensuring that we were not trapped in tech glitches and wizardry and self-promotion.
So, I propose to review your blogs, but focus on the content of it. Comments on deepening it, adding more layers to your writing, exploring other dimensions of your posts, the graphic quality, and so forth.
My purpose for doing it: discovering substantive blogs and their authors.
I look forward to a manageable trickle and not a deluge, to begin with!
And in return, I look forward to your comments on my blog as well. Don't worry, I am not reopening it because I am unemployed, but because I want to enlarge my google reader and discover many more worthwhile blogs. Just so you know: I read English and Hindi. And can manage with Gujarati and Urdu.
Other vernacular blogs and bloggers: you are welcome to comment on my blog.
Reason: re-starting reviews and requests for reviews
First of all, Cryptic Clues, this is a very nice thing of you... Thanks...
This is my blog. Been blogging for a year now... Though have been a bit lazy in the past few months...
Hi CC,
I have been blogging for a while but joined indiblogger hardly a month back and I am finding it extremely useful. Fellow bloggers like you have been doing a very commendable job helping out novices like me. I went through most of the comments you had given about other blogs and would love to hear your comments about mine too.
Mine is a personal blog and I scribble about whatever comes to my mind.
http://letmescribble.blogspot.com/
Thanks
My blog - I welcome your review.
http://srayyangar.blogspot.com
Hi CC!
You have a fresh approach towards reviewing a blog. I am a new blogger and my style is very personal and interactive, as i am looking forward to finding like minded people. Please read my blog and give me your valuable comments.
I shall wait for your comments. Thanks.
Hey CC....here's my blog http://darkcoffeebeans.blogspot.com
I just write things that suddenly pop up in my mind , so u wont find social issues , or tech related stuff in there...still , hoping to get an honest review from some1 who likes to read.....
Hi CC
thanks for specifically reviewing the content :)
i wish to become a writer in future, but right now i am experimenting with short stories :) to develop my writing skills
here is my blog
http://soulblogger-randomcrap.blogspot.com/
i know you mus be busy but wheneven you get time
i hope you will have good time reviewing my blog
thanks in anticipation
Yeah, and for the many older requests, if you are still interested in having the blog reviewed, please let me know. I promise to keep it, this time...
Yes I am. randomnique.blogspot.com
My blog of Social & Political satires- Your Review most Welcome.
http://srayyangar.blogpost.com
The link doesn't work. You may want to verify and send your blog links please.
i would love to get my blog reviewed by you
I have also started blog reviews recently. Good to see someone else also taking it up. I saw some of your old reviews. They are pretty good. I would also like my blog reviewed by you. I am not sure if we are allowed to post links. If it is not much of trouble, could you take my blog link from my profile and review?
Dear Runcil,
Thanks, read your blog and enjoyed it. Well, not very much. And that is not because the content is not good, but only because we live in very different worlds. Take for example, your best song picks for 2010. (Can I say it out aloud?) I know only of Ishqiya from your music list. So I guess our lives converge one on ten. That significant difference in the worlds we stradle apart, I think your blog is quite good. A lot of it comes from your own education/work/life. And yes, poems don't agree with me. So I will leave those out.
If I have some suggestions to offer: love the pictures, and they tell a lot more about you, your life, the worlds you live in. More of it please.
Second, a larger font size please, ageing readers have to squint to read the finer prints. Love the title, quite apt!
Do you know of Dadaism?
And some of the macabre stories on train accidents: write more! Do you know of the lives of the hamaal? Do you research your posts before you write. I know I don't. But it really helps.
Nevertheless, lovely. I am the wrong audience though :)
CC
Thanks for your time CC. I'll keep your points in mind. I do not always research, at least I haven't done so for the train ones yet. And Dadaism, I had read about it long ago; will have to refresh my memory about it. Thanks, again. :)
Seems like everyone is posting links to the blog including indipolice. So let me also post mine for the convenience of the reviewer.
Its all good as long as one has the genuine intention to do so. Like we have people who want to have more writers or who are having problem with URL/hosting redirects. That's the difference between a human mod and a bot mod ;).
Here is the link to my travel blog. Would love to hear your views on it -
Thanks a lot for this wonderful thread and for this kind initiative! 
Dear Arti
I had reviewed your blog, last year as well. Maybe I should do the oters first, its only fair! Why don't you review mine instead. I write at Musings from the Margins.
I write at Musings from the Margins.
Here is mine - http://cricketwise.blogspot.com/
Please give me some views on my blog!!! :)
Dear DS,
Lovely blog. I have one main comment to make. A lot of the blog space is dedicated to scores and statistics. Now these are easily available on many web-sites now, newspapers run year-end specials and so on. You may want to cut down the flab and bring us incidents that are less well known. Or your own experiences with the game. Or maybe your reflections on many other related cricketing stories. Apartheid, sledging, the commercialisation of the game and what you think of it, the small town players taking over the Indian team, Pakistan having to play its home matches in the Gulf. And so on... That I think will cut the flab and make your blog so much more interesting. I know this might require more research, but that's alright: I think the quality will far offset the number of entries.
By the way, loved the one on sledging. Do you know if women's game is different when it comes to sledging? Do you want to write about that?
CC
here is mine..
http://me-n-my-perception.blogspot.com/
Its always good to have reviews n comments to improve..so please leve your comments and suggestions as well.
Here is mine - http://teamgsquare.blogspot.com
Kindly review and let me know the way forward .
http://teamgsquare.blogspot.com/
Why no reviews yet?
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