John Chow Dot Com

I came across John Chow’s blog a few weeks ago when I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Steve Pavlina’s personal blog. I saw a Google ad for John’s site, proclaiming that “John Chow loves Steve Pavlina (His blog at least)” or something to that effect. I thought that was a great marketing tactic so I had to visit his site and see what it was about.

John Chow Dot Com contains an interesting mix of website reviews, internet news, business advice/tips and war stories from John’s involvement in the tech boom of the late ‘90s, often with a subtle, dry sense of humor. I have especially enjoyed his posts about various aspects of current blog culture, e.g. Google AdSense developments, the evils of RSS, Digg conspiracies and the shortcomings of Alexa.

Also, I have to credit John Chow Dot Com as the first place I heard about the “How Much Is Your Blog Worth?” tool. This site isn’t doing so well yet, as you can see on the left bar, but my new StockWeblog.com site is up to $5,645.40 now. It’s a fun little tool.

He does tend to post a lot about certain things though. Such as AGLOCO. Which is understandable, since he now has signed up 1000+ people on that site, myself being one of them. But this ties in with my only other critical comment on the site, that more categories should probably be added for his posts. “AGLOCO” is a category with only 10 posts while some of the other categories have hundreds. If he’s going to make a special category for AGLOGO, why not a Google category? He probably has more than 10 posts about AdSense alone.

Anyway, great blog overall, John. Keep writing and I’ll keep stopping by to see what you’re up to.