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Money News has quite a snazzy logo.

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The first thing I noticed when I visited this site was the domain - MoneyNe.ws. It’s use of the “.ws” domain (from Samoa) is very clever. So clever, in fact, that I’m going to give it -1 point.

ONTO THE DESIGN
Money News has the best design of any blog I’ve reviewed so far (and that’s not saying much). It has a custom logo - always a good addition to a blog - which is almost as good as Blog Badly’s own. In fact, the whole header is quite well made and I have no comments or witty sayings about it. No, really. It’s perfectly fine.

On the other hand, the post formatting has one thing that annoys me - a “Read More” button (+1 point). I don’t want to spend the extra two seconds clicking that to finish reading a post! What’s worse is that these cutoffs appear randomly. On the front page there is a long post with no “Read More” button and a shorter post just above it with one. If you’re going to pick something pointless to do, at least be consistent with it! (+1 point)

WIDGETS YET AGAIN
The sidebars of this blog appear clean at first until I come upon two widgets that I find utterly pointless (+1 point):

• Blog Catalog Recent Visitors. The site is great and all, but who cares?
• Scratchback. It’s like buying text links except you don’t get any Google love for them (it’s nofollow).

Space could be better spent on anything, really. Perhaps Mitch (the owner of the site) should take a look at my post about blog pizazz? I’m sure a dancing World of Warcraft character would make a great addition to his sidebar.

SO HOW ABOUT THAT CONTENT?
Money News is about money news, but not about all money news. It’s about World of Warcrack Warcraft too. About how Mitch makes money from World of Warcraft, actually. He gets paid to play games (as his header prominently states. Lucky) because, apparently, people spend real money on imaginary virtual game money so that they can buy imaginary Gauntlets of +5 Strength for their imaginary Gnome warlock. Heck, sometimes it’s not even about money at all. Money News has at least three posts up with various World of Warcraft commercials. Still, I guess those commercials were bought and produced for money and they made people go to the store and buy Wor-

Okay, so it’s about money.

SO, IN SHORT…
I really can’t talk smack about Money News. It’s overall a good blog. But, for the convenience of you, my esteemed reader, lets run over the points:

1. Good use of the “.ws” domain name! -1 point
2. Egh. What if I don’t want to “read more”?
3. What if I do want to “read more,” and you don’t consistently include it - even if the posts you include it on are short while the posts that are long don’t include it…
4. Useless widgets. Replace them with pizazz!

And, using the one-point-equals-one-thumb-down system, Mitch’s blog scores a…

Money News is heading down the path to success. It must be stopped.

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