Blog Review: The Answer May Surprise You
It's that time of the week again, the time when I review a blog as part of my Technorati contest.
This time I am turning my sights on The Answer May Surprise You, a blog with a long name that has only recently left Blogspot to make it on its own. It's always a wonderful thing when a blogger decides to hit the road and get their own domain name. Why would anyone want to help a big corporate blogging outfit profit on your work? If you have not yet purchased your own domain to blog from you should stop reading and go out and do it now!
Right off the bat I'm a bit confused. They have their own domain name but it looks like they are still hosted on Blogspot. Oh, my mistake, they are now hosted on Blogger! OK, what is the point of buying your own domain and using it with Blogger? Sorry, I don't get it. Maybe I'm just too old school for this...
On to the posts!
You don't think I just walk into these reviews cold, do you? Of course not, I warm up with a few holes of Super Swing Golf first!
- My Top five posts
- Q: Worst Internet porn search ever? - This one gets me because a common search term that brings people to hmtk.com is "sex video". I have no idea why this is, but it is.
- Q: What's on your mind? - When the news of the day is more about what's not the news of the day.
- Q: How do I rip off the CoinStar machine that keeps ripping me off? - Coverage of the iTunes music card CoinStar hack.
- Q: What's sadder than being alone on Valentine's Day night? - You too can find out which super hero is your Valentines Day match! I took it and got Scarlet Witch as my true Super Hero love!
- Q: Don't kids say the darnedest things? - Of all the pictures I have seen of John Edwards this is the only one that makes him look older while trying to make him look younger.
The thing about this blog is that it is zany. Reading it gives me the feeling the writers were either born when SNL was still good or wrote for SNL when it was still good. Either way it is a refreshing read.
Yes, the writers slant to the left but they are funny about it. I don't cover politics here on HMTK (for the most part) simply because you end up alienating half of your readers. These guys make fun of politicians and they do it in a way that elicits a laugh rather than a groan.
That's it. I'm heading back to my Wii now, I just got ExciteBike and I'm enjoying the old 8-bit goodness!
Am I stupid?
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Great review in my opinion…I’m still jealous that you have a wii :(
Wii Wii Wii…
It sucks up all of my time! Be glad you do not have one yet.
Thank you for the kind review. Everyone here at T.A.M.S.Y.H.Q. is extremely flattered, especially me.
We just hope you don’t mean it as an insult that our top five posts are only four posts. I’m going to assume the posts you didn’t mention are in a 500-way tie for #5.
That was a mistake on my part. I did pick five posts but, somewhere along the way formating got messed up and one of the links was erased.
I’m going to add the fifth one back in.
Oh, to clear up your confusion…
The deal here is that Blogspot and Blogger are the same thing (and owned by Google). Switching from the old domain to surprisinger.com takes advantage of a new Blogger feature that allows you to publish Blogspot blogs wherever you like (without having to tinker with FTP stuff, as was the case before). But the blog is still technically hosted by Blogger.
This is a good thing, from my vantage point, for a variety of reasons — among them: (1) Blogger/Blogspot doesn’t ever try to profit from, or add advertising to, your blog (aside from the small Blogger logo); (2) I don’t have to pay a dime in hosting fees, aside from the $10 I pay for a year’s worth of my new customized URL; (3) my blog never suffers the “Digg effect,” or anything like it, no matter how many hits I’m getting; and (4) the $10 domain, purchased through Google Apps, comes with 100MBs in hosting, with no stated restrictions on bandwidth!
In essence, setting up a blog in Blogger these days is not much different from using WordPress. Plus, I find Blogger to have a better, quicker, simpler interface (while still allowing for plenty of customization).
Thanks for putting that in the proper perspective. I was unaware that Blogger worked in that way.
Thanks for pointing us over to surprisinger.com, loved the site and just added it to Google Reader. I also joined the Technorati contest. Keep up the great reviews and btw, the link to the Coinstar hack points back to this site.
Link fixed, thanks!