Blog Review: Jatecblog

As promised yesterday, here is a blog review of Jake’s blog, Jatecblog. He had the closest guess in the “Guess My Birthdate” contest.

Jatecblog is a blog about technology, Linux (lots of Ubuntu stuff), web design, and a lot more, including the occasional rant about stupid 12 year olds posing as AOL workers.

Jatecblog has all sorts of useful information, a lot of which is stuff that would normally take you several searches in Google to find, and covers tips and tricks that I never knew were possible.

There are some things that can make it greatly improve, however.

I think it should cover two more things more than it currently does: web design and open source software. How about some posts about cool things you can do with GIMP or OpenOffice? Heck, a post about converting a GIMP image into a full web design would be really nice, I’d imagine there is some easy way to do that. Even a post on the best Firefox extensions would work.

I am also a bit curious as to why it doesn’t use a FeedBurner feed, are feed stats tracked some other way or something?

And while we’re on the topic of feeds, Jatecblog needs some sort of RSS button on the blog. A while back I wrote a post about adding a Javascript Feed Subscription popup menu, it is what I use and it works great, although I also added a RSS logo that links to the feed as well - just in case the user has JS disabled.

Other than that I’m pretty happy with it, and I look forward to seeing the future posts there.

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