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iceberg0's review against another edition
3.0
Decent introduction to blogging. Tends to focus on tech news blogging but there was decent general info. The tip on twitterfeed.com was worth the price of admission for me.
kellylynnthomas's review against another edition
3.0
This book defined blogging as basically being citizen journalism, and sort of discounted any blogs/blog ideas that wouldn't be writing about breaking news every day. The book definitely reads like a boot camp. The authors are unforgiving of anything less than writing 1,000 words per day and posting AT LEAST once per day. There is, however, a lot of good information in here. And in truth, they are right about a lot of the things they're drill seargenty about. Blogs that are updated once a day or more are usually more popular than blogs that only update once a week. So I'd recommend this for anyone thinking about starting a blog, or thinking of taking their blog to the next level.
rachelteresacrawshaw's review against another edition
1.0
Was not relevant to me at all- very consumer led and cold.
alyce6d980's review
4.0
Other than repeatedly referring to things as 'out of the scope' of the book and not offering a further reading section, this was actually a pretty solid blogging book. Instead of focusing on monetizing the blog and ad revenue, there was a lot more focus on the content of the post and the writing style (my favourite section being on the Top 50 Grammar and Usage mistakes, which taught me a couple of things!) which is something I've been looking for.
Both John and Charlie have had extremely lucrative blogging careers with Gizmodo and others, and it was impressive to get such down to earth and helpful advice from blogging legends. Whereas some of the other blogging books I've read have seemed to want to keep the secrets under wraps, this was a very transparent and open book, and I feel as though I've learnt a lot from it because of that.
Both John and Charlie have had extremely lucrative blogging careers with Gizmodo and others, and it was impressive to get such down to earth and helpful advice from blogging legends. Whereas some of the other blogging books I've read have seemed to want to keep the secrets under wraps, this was a very transparent and open book, and I feel as though I've learnt a lot from it because of that.
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