As I’m surfing around the net today using Blog Explosion, I thought I’d take some time to identify some great blogs.  Some of these are new and some are not so new and some have been around since the beginning of the blogosphere maybe, but all share the characteristics of being great blogs that could benefit from fully disclosed revenue streams through Social Spark.

1. Scooby and His Meddling Family – This site is on blogger and relatively new (just like Scooby) but its a great little blog and has lots of potential.
2. Observing German(s)… – This social commentary almost politico blog does something in English that you don’t see very often, it talks about Germany.  Being of partial German descent myself and being completely bereft of the ability to speak or read German, it is not terribly easy to get a feel for the place and culture as it exists today, but this provides some interesting little snapshots.  Note it is on blog.com, has some good content but the site owner should really move to wordpress and own their own content. 
3. Anything But Wind Chimes – A lot of people come up with some pretty terribly profile bios on Blogger, hell I’m probably one of them, can’t even remember what I may have as a profile there, but I think this bio is cute and funny and does actually capture the essence of the blog articles that I read (cute and funny but also something more there than just cute and funny)
1. “I’m 19, Stressed as hell, and always striving for a chance to just goof around.”
4. Winged Emotion – Nice looking site and I knew I had to click away fast because this post with the Best Smart Ass Replies of 2008 was sure to make me lose a lot of time today.    Seriously, great site, could definitely benefit from a SEO upgrade and new permalink structure to drive more traffic, but doing a lot of things well.
5. runswithscissors – this is a great blog that I have followed for quite some time, more as a lurker reader.  This also one of those sites that has been around for a long long time.  I think this would make a great addition because this blogger is also a writer as in book writer.  I’ve thought for a long time that novelists could definitely get a big boost from both earning money through Social Spark but also the networking opportunity with a network of 200k + vocal bloggers, maybe even a little advertising from time to time.  On a makeover note, I think this blog might be on TypePad.  TypePad is good for many things, but I believe WordPress has eclipsed it with its power house of open source plugins and CMS functionality.  I just did a TypePad migration to WordPress for a friend and client, Dave Courvouisier, who is a blogger, voice over artist, an anchor man in Las Vegas on KLAS-TV, and an Emmy Award winning broadcaster/producer/writer.  I think runswithscissors could move to a higher level off of the TypePad plateau, an extra revenue stream wouldn’t hurt either, even if it is just used to pay for more marketing for the books on the site!

If you are looking for some examples of sites that could work well, make sure you check these blogs out.  A couple of them are so new that they would not yet qualify into Social Spark, but if they keep up what they are doing, I don’t think they would have any problems getting in if they chose.  Some may already be in the system even. 

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