It would seem that today the news across the net and the blogosphere is all about Obama. Surprisingly (to me at least) this is not restricted to only American blogs or American bloggers—the results of the United States elections are a topic of interest and concern all over the globe.

Leading The Way

Our own fearless leader Sean Rasmussen is proof positive of this, leading the way this morning with a post of congratulations of his own. Of course, being that Sean gets our news while we are still sleeping, he had something of an advantage :).

The interesting thing is that you can set political views aside for many of these posts. Yes, of course there are those who will be blogging in support or fear of the US President Elect, but there are those who take a wider view on the subject, much as Sean has done, and focus on different aspects, such as the historical nature of this particular election.

It truly is eye-opening to see just how impacting the state of one nation can be on others worldwide. In the interest of feeding our growing international appetite here at Digg It, please do share—have you seen a great post today concerning, in some aspect, the result of the US election? Do you have a post of your own to offer? Or do you have an opinion to share? Perhaps you even think this is much ado about nothing.

Whatever your thoughts are, we’d love to hear them. Leave a link with your comment below, and share the most interesting perspective you’ve seen today in regards to the American election results.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

There’s been a lot to celebrate around here lately. We’ve just recently posted our 100th Do You Digg It! blog review, which happens (truly by chance) to coincide with Sean Rasmussen’s release of The Secret Law of Attraction. In celebration, weekend posts featured some great success blogs, like Pastor Richard Onebamoi’s Self Improve Blog, a blog featuring the secret Law of Attraction and other classic empowerment and wealth and success writers. Today we’ll take a minute out to feature a few others from our blog review archives (and of course give you the link to the book, too!).

Blogging Success

Success, wealth, and personal development have been a primary focus of blog reviews here on Do You Digg It! Our very first post was one of those, in fact. Check it out here and read our review of AngesBiz, a blog dedicated to wealth and success.

To keep you growing and succeeding, here are some other blogs of interest as we celebrate success.

• B. Smith’s Wealth & Wisdom blog leverages Vincent Pareto’s 80/20 principle to clarify wealth and discover the secrets to success.
• TR Coach will take you from where you are to where you want to be while exploring the theories of universal law that apply to wealth and success.
• Last but not least, we revisit our review of Benny Greenberg’s Ya-ttitude.com, one of our most inspiring and most popular, comment-provoking posts.

The Secret Of Success, A Freebie For Our Readers

We promised a link to the newest free success eBook from Sean Rasmussen, and here it is (courtesy of SeanRasmussen.com, Sean’s success blog—non-monetized for your enlightenment and reading pleasure).

Friday marked the release of The Secret Law of Attraction at the blog. This is a revised and updated version of the Wallace Wattles classic, The Science of Getting Rich. It’s been very well received and gotten some great positive comments thus far. Stop by Sean’s blog for your own free copy and let us know what you think!

Go to SeanRasmussen.com to download your free copy of The Secret Law of Attraction.

Great things are happening all around! Join us as we celebrate Digg It’s fledgling success, and get the goods to boost your own!

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find Self Improve Blog:
Blog URL: http://self-improve-blog.com/
Category: Self Improvement

Self Improve Blog

We’re combining efforts this weekend to celebrate the release of Sean Rasmussen’s latest eBook, The Secret Law of Attraction. In celebration of its release Do You Digg It is featuring established and promising empowerment blogs, while continuing our efforts to expand our international blog rolls.

Today our combined efforts take us to the review of our first Belgian-based blog, the Self Improve Blog of Brussels blogger Richard Onebamoi (a blog migrated and combined from his original, Success Power Points). Richard’s mission through his collection of blogs is to “inspire your performance, expand your imagination, cultivate your dreams, help you discover, develop and maximize your God given potential.”

Self Improve Blog - Why You Should Go

Pastor Richard Onebamoi combines several aspects of self and faith in his works as a success facilitator. He brings a deep spirituality and faith, and marries them to leading philosophies and universal laws of success from both historical and modern perspectives. Inspiration for posts comes from people like Napoleon Hill, Wallace Wattles, and the much recognized Anthony Robbins, as well as Richard’s own studies and experiences. These are balanced with practical articles and “how-to’s” for life and success.

Summing Up Self Improve Blog

Pastor Onebamoi’s Self Improve Blog is just one of the vehicles he uses to achieve his mission, but it is one of his collective works that has the widest appeal as a blog dedicated to self improvement, where it all starts.

Go here to check out Self-Improve-Blog.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

To Find Inspiration & Motivation Blog:
http://www.bestinspirationalquotes4u.com/blog/
Category: Motivation, Personal Development

Inspiration & Motivation Blog

Today our round-the-world blog reviews take us to Bandung City in Indonesia to the blog of Arswino Sonata. One of Arswino’s favorite activities is sharing with people and inspiring them to live a happy, motivated life of success. This young and promising blog is his means to that end.

Inspiration & Motivation - Why You Should Go

We do see a lot of blogs in the blogosphere that are set up as motivational personal development blogs. To be sure, we have seen many here, not least of all because mindset and motivation are of primary importance to our host, Sean Rasmussen. It seems that each of these blogs have a slightly different take on the secret to life’s success, and a slightly different package for its delivery. Arswino’s blog, though, is truly unique.

Inspiration & Motivation aims to inspire mainly through storytelling. Arswino Sonata has a gift for locating stories with great morals for living, and it is these that he chooses to use to best illustrate his thoughts and beliefs.

Summing Up Inspiration & Motivation

Arswino’s approach to motivational blogging is thoughtful and entertaining all at the same time. It’s an easy and enjoyable place to visit, one that makes easy, short work of inspiring your day.

Go here to check out Inspiration & Motivation Blog.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

I promised that we’d start up a bit of conversation here and there, so as to invite even more community and conversation, and to give you a few ideas of what motivates this blog. So here we go…

Do You Ever Have Anything Bad To Say?

One of the comments that we’ve gotten here on this blog and in talk of it around the net is that there appear to be no negative reviews. Why is that?

While we understand that creating controversy is a sure-fire way to get people talking, we also think there is enough of it without our adding to the buzz. So instead of telling you our opinion of why a blog isn’t worth your time, we prefer to focus on the good that’s out there, and make sure that those are the blogs that get their due. This is in part an effort to avoid that phenomenon wherein negative publicity ends up being a better traffic-generator than good publicity. You know how it goes—say something negative about anyone or anything, and people have to flock to find out what you’re talking about, to get in on the controversy. It’s hard to resist.

Rather than send you all off to blogs that just don’t deserve the attention, whether for a lack of content or style or grace, we’d rather appreciate the better blogs for what they offer and promote those instead. So when we come across a lackluster blog, we simply move on to something more worthwhile, more worth your time (and ours). Anyone who knows Sean Rasmussen, who created Digg It, knows that he is all about positivity and fulfillment, so it would be quite contrary to his being to start up a review of the worst of the web!

Does That Mean We All Agree?

So if there are no negative reviews here, does that mean we expect that we will all always agree?

That would be a fruitless effort, wouldn’t it? No, we entirely understand that we all have different tastes, different interests, and different opinions. We also understand that your time has plenty of demands upon it, so what you choose to read on a regular basis as a group will be highly variable. You may disagree with a review you see here, and that’s your privilege (we do ask that we keep the site civil though!). As reviewers we try to keep an open mind and see the value in blogs beyond our own personal opinions, so as to present our reading community with a diverse array of blogs that span many topics, categories, and interests.

That being said, many of the blogs reviewed have been recommended by you, our readers, and many others have been located through your comments and blog rolls, so it is very often the case that we enjoy a high level of agreement among our readers.

We continue to strive here to make this a blog that is useful and interesting; our comments are open to you below, and we welcome your comments, constructive criticisms, and, of course, your blog review recommendations.

Thanks for being a part of our community, and thanks for continuing to read Do You Digg It!

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Reviewing blogs gives me an opportunity (and a great excuse) to explore the web endlessly, reading from the many interesting and diverse blogs in the greater blogosphere. This is something that grew out of Sean Rasmussen’s (who created Digg It) passion for blogging and belief that blogging really does open minds and creates so many possibilities for learning, networking, socializing, and general expansion of the mind. It was a great idea that is proving to be a pretty popular and much appreciated one, too.

With now over 70 blogs to our review tally, I’m beginning to see some trends emerge among the betters (and also the less impressive). This has led me to a few observations of my own, a few preferences, and a few points for potential discussion. So with Sean’s blessing from time to time I plan to step in and offer my own two cents in the form of the occasional discussion post, and hope that is worth something to you, our readers. We might be lucky enough to have Sean do the same!

What Do You Get For Mary Ward’s Two-Cents?

It’s hard to tell. Probably a mixed-bag, as many of our favorite blogs are. But for starters we might talk about other ways to make a better blog—not the mainstream stuff you read everywhere about linking and the like, but the things I like to see when I review a blog, the things that mean the difference between being reviewed or passed by; I might share with you my blogger pet peeves, or offer a forum for you to share what you’ve learned from the blogosphere. Or I might take requests from you! Digg It is intended to be a place for the bloggers, by the bloggers, and we are always open to suggestions for our blog and for bloggers worthy of review.

For today I thought a fair forewarning was in order, and I welcome all your thoughts on the matter! Comments are always open below.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

Where to Find Francessa’s Thinking:
Blog URL: http://francessarich.blogspot.com/
Category: Reviews, Personal Blog

Francessa’s Thinking

Hoping to expand our international reach a bit beyond our three nations of main interest—which have been, up until now, Australia (Sean’s & Digg It’s real home), the U.S. (mine), and Canada (close by), I was excited to see that Lydia from Writerquake was recommending a blog written by a woman who lives/commutes between Austria and Germany (the blog, however, is in English). I had high hopes that this would be a blog worth reviewing, and I wasn’t disappointed. Actually when I got there I had a choice of two great blogs, but more on that another day…

Francessa’s Thinking is written by Francessa Rich, a teacher and researcher researching the internet communication of teens. Her posts include many reviews of thought-provoking books and movies, and also posts of a more natural and observational nature. It’s a nice balance and an easy read on some interesting subjects.

Francessa’s Thinking - Why You Should Go

As I mentioned when I got to Francessa’s blog I had a choice to make—which of her two to review (the other being her research-focused blog)? And I very nearly went with the other for today, because it offered some very interesting views and analyses of blogging and life through the internet. But I thought it more appropriate to start with this one, to where Lydia sent me.

The reason for my choice was the reason for Lydia’s blog, which does so nicely capture the spirit of blogging. She began her blog in the interest of connecting with and learning from people all over the world, and also to give others “a glimpse of European points of view.” Hers is a highly respectable task that offers the opportunity to open the mind, expand your horizons, and understand a bit more about diverse cultures, worth sharing for the premise of the blog itself.

Summing Up Francessa’s Thinking

Francessa’s thinking is a rare opportunity in blogging. It is written in English (with the warning that Francessa is not a native English speaker, but you’d never know it to read it!) with an admirable goal, and what’s more it offers information of insight and value. If being one in a global community is your goal, this is a blog to put on your list.

Go here to check out Francessa’s Thinking.

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008

We’ve had a few problems around the blog lately. You may have noticed that there are weird symbols floating around, and lost categories, tags, and so on. It’s all quite frustrating from this end, and it’s boggled the blogging a bit (say it 10 times fast?) but we are aware and our fearless leader, Sean Rasmussen, is working on it. It appears that there are some server issues and Sean is working as quickly as he can to get those straightened out.

In The Meantime…

We’ll just carry on.

It’s not as if I’m any good on a tech-side anyway, so we’ll let that be Sean’s domain. We’ve been on a great roll lately, and had a few requests come in from our post for blogs to review from the other day. We’d hate to let you all down, so we’ll just forge ahead.

You may notice a few blips, but the content will remain, even if we are minus a few pictures that refuse to load here and there (which we promise to attend to as soon as everything is in working order again).

Please continue to read above all, but also comment and interact. And in case you haven’t yet–do stop by here and tell us who you Digg the most!

We hope it goes without saying, but Sean and I appreciate your patience and your understanding!

Mary Ward
Do You Digg It!
Blog Review Team
Do You Digg It! © 2008