review

Can you blog to fame?

Posted by: buzz42 12/05.

This is a review of Blogging to Fame dot com which is a product of the same blogger as the blogspot blog of the same title.

This dot com is a competition of sorts where by the winner will get a pile of cash and be somehow magically transformed into an "A List" blogger.

Before we get down to brass tacks let us examine the rules page.

ontest Rules for Blogging to Fame Awards 2007: "Selection Criteria for Bloggers"

1. This competition will go on till (sic) the end date, and a total of 5 bloggers will be selected who will be liable to receive $5000 each.
2. Winners will be selected on the basis of their performance as a blogger, how much (sic) socially responsible they are and on their writing style. Quality here is most important.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

The reviewer found this to be simply to delicious an irony to pass up the chance to comment. This competition that will "...go on till the end date..." where quality is held to be the most important along with "...how much socially responsible they are..."

For those watching in black and white here are the self same rules written in a formal style.

1. The competition will be open and ongoing up to and including the published end date.
2. A total of 5 winners will be selected with each eligible to receive at least US$5,000.
3. Winners will be selected based on the following criteria: performance as a blogger, social responsibility and written style. (Written quality being the primary criteria for consideration).
3.a. "Social Responsibility" is defined as...






MINUS: As highlighted there seems to be a lack of example
PLUS: They give away a free holiday and cash too

What do we learn: If you define a standard to judge others be sure to do as well yourself

Revisit: Sure.


Layout: 9/10 Good clean layout
Look and feel: 8/10 The animation can annoy
Wit and amusement: 3/10 very little intentional entertainment
commentary: 7/10 Some inherent commentary
Extra: 10/10 That give away must count as the biggest extra ever

TOTAL: 74% All-in-all not so bad but the fun is all unintentional

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