Archive for September 13th, 2007

Unususal deaths

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
I had always wanted a death that is either totally unnoticed, or so noticed that if anyone dies, the subject of my bizarre death comes up, but this list in my all time favourite place - wikipedia takes the cake.

All kinds of deaths over thousands of years right from death by a tortoise falling on the head and death by laughter to death by swallowing a toothpick :D

Some of the deaths are also unusual and tragic accidents, but all of them are bizarre - the usual thorough work by wikipedia. Given a choice, I’d go for - “All of the above”….. except the painful ones.

List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Review me

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
I have joined Get Reviewed At ReviewMe! as a reviewer. This allows me to get paid for writing reviews on subjects that interest me.

What I like about review me is that it allows me to write whatever I honestly think. There is no requirement for a positive review. In the past, I wanted to join such programmes, but what made me leery was the rejection that could accompany posts that are not positive, and I can’t honestly write a real review and only be positive all the time.

I see a great number of advantages to this service.

For bloggers, it is a source of easy income as well as a flow of things to write about to tide you over times when you are blocked. I don’t know if people accept every offer they get, but I pick up the ones that interest me and leave out the ones that don’t so for me, it is simply a source of inspiration for writing that pays me as well.

I guess if it is done only for the money, it might not work out so well, as the quality of reviews would go down, and eventually, a person would be left writing garbage. THAT would be a disaster in terms of the quality of the blog itself, and I think it shouldn’t be done.

For people who’d like to promote their services or get honest feedback
that can help them improve on their services or products can find that
and get nice links in the content as a bonus. I don’t know if it is any
use in search engine marketing, as there is a disclosure that it is a
paid review, but it certainly shouldn’t harm. I see it as an excellent opportunity to find out what people related with your subject think of what you are offering and it will definitely enable improvement if the reviews are taken seriously, rather than simply treated as links.

You have the links anyway, why not get more value from what you are already paying for?

Anyway, if you’d like to give it a shot, go for it, and let me know what you think as well.
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