Review of “Proof Positivity Blog”
I want to apologize for not reviewing the long list of blogs that asked for honest reviews at Blog Catalog. But I was SO busy writing content to pay the bills and I think you guys understand that.
But I am caught up now and I am going to take advantage of that fact and pick up where I left off.
That being said, the blog I am reviewing here is called “Proof Positivity.”
I hate to say a bunch of negative things about a blog that is striving to be positive, but Proof Positivity made me want to pull all my hair out! What a train wreck.
Where do I begin? There is so much wrong with Proof Positivity that if I were the author I would start all over.
Let me number the things I found:
1. That Vokax, or whatever the name of the widget that talks at the top of the blog has to go. It looks like it belongs on a business site that is trying to sell me swamp land, and it has no good use on this blog, ESPECIALLY being the first thing you see.
2. The blog is all over the place. First they want to give kids a positive view of the news. Then there is the vision of every kid being able to write, no matter what their grades are? (??)
3. Then there are ALL THOSE WIDGETS! The blog loads so slow I could have taken a bath while I was waiting to read the post.
4. The post are atrocious. Learn HTML. And what is all of that in the first post, all of those comments that are actually in the post?
5. The videos don’t work.
6. Stop begging for money if you aren’t going to present a professional impression.
7. I didn’t know a company could author a blog, I though authors were individuals.
8. The theme should stay on positivity, and not articles the author has written at Helium, or the fact that Jules Verne discovered space flight. (??) And why in the heck is there a link to Search Engine Watch??!
There are other things but I need to go to bed, I have a migraine. But I WILL say before I do that you should get your own domain, get some help from someone who knows about blogs and blogging, and maybe you actually could create a great place for kids. Forget asking for a car and money to set up studios in all the schools. Studios for what?
As far as asking what, when , where and why, that’s what I am still doing.
A Note About Mortgage Lenders
I don’t like to talk about loans and mortgages that much on my blogs, but today I am making an exception. The reason why is that this site, Somerset Mortgage Lenders, impressed me enough with their soft sale attitude and their professionalism that I wanted to give them a plug.
I am pretty sure that mortgage lenders are having a rough time of it with the financial landscape being what it is lately, so a plug is probably needed. They deserve one. Check out Somerset Mortgage Lenders if you are in the market for a mortage or refinancing on your home.
Vintage Sunglasses
My roommate and I were in Walgreen’s last night and she was trying on some of the wildest looking sunglasses! I wear glasses so I have never had the luxury of just any old sunglasses. But what I noticed was that the styles of sunglasses are very similar to the styles we wore when I was a young girl. They are designed to intentionally look like vintage sunglasses.
I love that. The fact of everything always coming back into style. Now I just wish I had kept some of those cool shoes I had!
Life Insurance for Senior Citizens
I have noticed lately that people are starting to call senior citizens simply “seniors.” What’s that about? I thought seniors were kids about to graduate from high school.
Anyway, that’s not what I came here to blog about. I wanted to tell you about a company that actually provides life insurance for seniors. The name of this generous insurance company is One Dollar Globe Insurance.
Now, as a former life insurance sales person, I can tell you that if senior citizens can buy ANY form of life insurance that cost $1 they better jump on it immediately. The smart thing to do, for those of you who are young and don’t have life insurance, is to buy a policy now so that you can lock in your rate.
The one thing we know for sure in this life is that we are all going to die. So get some life insurance, especially “seniors”
Do You Know about COMPETE?
There is a site I discovered yesterday that is taking the internet to a whole new level of competition between websites and blogs for traffic. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not. But I guess it’s not for me to decide.
Whatever its purpose, Compete, on the level of tools to track your sites performance in the marketplace, I haven’t seen any metrics system that can “compete” if you will. You can instantly see how many visitors your site or anyone else’s site has had. There is a scale of the performance of the site over several months, and it even tells you how much the site has shrunk or grown in traffic over this time last year.
Check it out. I have a feeling Compete is not going anywhere anytime soon. They also have a blog. You will want to read up on that too.
Post Automatically on Craigslist!
“What WILL they think of next?” was my first thought when I found this great new software that actually posts several ads on Craigslist at once!
This cutting edge technology lets you maximize the time you spend posting ads on Craigslist (or Backpage.) The time it takes to post an ad is decreased by over 50%. Craygo includes many unique, user friendly features and was designed with ease of use in mind.
Craygo has more features than any other craigslist posting application out there! Craygo has more features than Easy Ad Poster (EzAdSuite), AdsOnCraigs, AdBomber and admaster.
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Are You a Bookworm?
I love to read. And I don’t know about you but when it comes to reading books
I absolutely have to have a hardback book, no e-books for me. Well, unless it is an e-book about how to make money online or some other instructional type.
Fiction requires the relaxation of body and mind, a nice beverage, a quite spot and a hefty book to hold in your hands.
Got an LCD Monitor?
I don’t know how anyone, after using an lcd monitor can go back to their old standard monitor. The LCD monitor is SO much clearer and brighter, and just, well, so modern and efficient!
Everything I do on my LCD monitor makes it necessary for me to have one. My eyes don’t get nearly as tired. What about you?
Do you love your LCD monitor?
Misunderstanding Medicare for Years
Isn’t it funny, how we get something in our heads and spend forever thinking that it is right, even if it’s not? For instance, I have always thought that medicare insurancewas for people with low incomes. But I learned only a few months ago, when a friend was talking about getting her medicine with her medicare, and I knew she wasn’t poor, that I was corrected in my wrong assumption.
Medicaid is for the children of low income families. Medicare is for the elderly.
Doh!
Last Night’s Political Late Night Humor
Some things never change. In a strange sort of way, that’s comforting. Even if it comes in the form of ribald humor at the expense of politicians. That tradition has been unique to America for as long as I can remember.
Last night’s late show monologues were no exception. Check out some of the best:
“Hey, have you hear this story that Barack Obama and Scarlett Johansson are apparently e-mail buddies? Scarlett Johansson is quoted as saying, ‘My heart belongs to Barack Obama.’ How about that, huh? Barack’s not even president yet, still doing waaay better than Bill Clinton ever did.” –Jay Leno
“Barack Obama surprised a bunch of students in Chicago yesterday when he showed up unannounced at an eighth grade graduation. Gave a speech at the eighth grade graduation, pretty cool. Now, don’t confuse that with President Bush’s appearance last year at an eighth grade graduation. He was just there getting a diploma.” –Jay Leno
“President Bush is now in Europe. Again, you know, we like President Bush. I just don’t think he has a real grasp of history. Did you see him in Berlin yesterday? He said, ‘Am I crazy, or did there used to be a wall?’” –Jay Leno
“The Fox News Channel did a weird thing last night. There was a rumor going around that Michelle Obama used the word ‘whitey’ in front of a group of black church-goers, and it turned out not to be true. And of course, Obama supporters were upset about it, but when they did the story, look at the caption Fox used at the bottom of the screen here [on screen: Fox calls Michelle Obama Obama's 'baby mama']. Obama’s baby mama. Now, I’m pretty sure that Michelle Obama is Barack’s wife, not his baby mama. You have to wonder if they’d use that terminology if she was white. But Fox is fair and balanced. We know because they say it all the time [on screen: fake video of Fox 'calling' Cindy McCain 'Mac Daddy's Skeezy-Ass Trick']. A similar thing with John McCain’s wife, Cindy” –Jimmy Kimmel
