OK, so what have we got here, huh? “Falling through the World”. Some travel blog I suppose, may turn out to be interesting. But, what’s this? http://peopleremember.blogspot.com/ address… “Blogspot.com” address – no money invested – less professional blog? Let’s not cross it at the beginning, just because it has got an ordinary address (not connected with the blog’s title too).
So, the blog loads quickly and what can we see? A blogger template! Oops, it doesn’t make a good impression. At least there are pictures added to some of the posts. But, except a photo of the author, no more graffics involved in the design.
Well, let’s take a closer look at the blog’s content itself then. We can choose from the main page and… that’s all. No ‘about me’ page. Not good. All we have is a sidebar with some links, archives and adsense ads, not even and RSS Feed button… awesome, you may get lost.
But, let’s focus on the real deal, the essence of every weblog – the posts. The author, Mike Danger Bain, tends to write a lot. This means at least twice a week and rather lenghty posts. However, I wouldn’t call his blog a ‘travel’ blog, ash he suggests in a subtitle. It is a personal, very personal and just personal weblog. Good or bad – it depends on what you are looking for. Anyway, the content is about his work, his friends, some thoughts – simply everyday life. The style is… ordinary. Of course, he doesn’t make grammar mistakes (although some spelling errors do occur). The style is not bad, but also not brilliant. Just normal. It doesn’t make me throw up, but also doesn’t engage me too much, make me can’t stop reading.
As you may expect, there are not many additional features of the blog. It looks like the author was running a kind of foundation, raising funds for his backpacking travels, ‘Sponsor A Backpacker’ it is called. Interesting – it has a dot-com address, while the blog itself doesn’t. It wasn’t very successful so far – it didn’t raise more than 15 pounds. No more bonus features.
Well, time to finish. I am afraid I can’t give you a good mark, mister Mike. Your site just looks… poor. And lacks in any content apart from the posts. However, I respect you for writing so much (without having big readership), I recommend you to do some work on the blogs design, some more advertisement and wish you good luck!
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