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yourstrulee's review
4.0
It's always hard to document any internet phenoms, but this one does a fairly good job.
alyce6d980's review
3.0
Definitely an interesting book - as a blogger, the interviews gave good pieces of advice. However, by using a large collection of bloggers from the Weblogs, Inc. corporation, it means that a lot of the time it does feel as though you're reading the same story and the same advice over and over again.
There were also a few rather obvious errors throughout the book, and while I wouldn't normally detract from the rating too much because of that, spelling the link for davetaylor.com as davetalyor.com is not only incorrect, for in an IT book that is dedicated to informing and educating about these bloggers, misspelling one of their web addresses is unacceptable. As well as this, the name Petersen is repeatedly misspelled as Peterson, and a blog has incorrectly been listed as being on 'the Technorati Top 100 Most Linked To Blogs list' instead of the Most Favorited Blogs list, which we'd been told had been its only achievement.
My favourite interview was definitely the one with Frank Warren, of PostSecret fame, as I've been following his blog for the longest out of all of the interviewed (in fact being the only blog I'd heard of before the book).
If you're interested in tech or business blogging, this is definitely more useful for you than if you're interested in music or book blogging. The advice can be extrapolated and applied to any bloggers situation though, so definitely give it a try if you feel you need to take your blog to an extra level.
And for those of you who've read the book and are wondering - I'm pretty sure the only interview conducted by email was the one with Richard MacManus, as his interview was the only one with a lack of substance and a marked reduction in questions.
There were also a few rather obvious errors throughout the book, and while I wouldn't normally detract from the rating too much because of that, spelling the link for davetaylor.com as davetalyor.com is not only incorrect, for in an IT book that is dedicated to informing and educating about these bloggers, misspelling one of their web addresses is unacceptable. As well as this, the name Petersen is repeatedly misspelled as Peterson, and a blog has incorrectly been listed as being on 'the Technorati Top 100 Most Linked To Blogs list' instead of the Most Favorited Blogs list, which we'd been told had been its only achievement.
My favourite interview was definitely the one with Frank Warren, of PostSecret fame, as I've been following his blog for the longest out of all of the interviewed (in fact being the only blog I'd heard of before the book).
If you're interested in tech or business blogging, this is definitely more useful for you than if you're interested in music or book blogging. The advice can be extrapolated and applied to any bloggers situation though, so definitely give it a try if you feel you need to take your blog to an extra level.
And for those of you who've read the book and are wondering - I'm pretty sure the only interview conducted by email was the one with Richard MacManus, as his interview was the only one with a lack of substance and a marked reduction in questions.
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