Who Needs Money?

Written by John Cow on February 12th, 2008

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Today we’ve got a review which is long overdue. You guys might remember a little while ago, a certain Mr Park took the blogosphere by storm when he offered not only a review on the Chow, but also with yours truly. Poor Sven won the review but had his review pitched (surfer slang) several times because we had a few ‘urgent’ posts we felt we had to get out first. Ofcourse, as soon as those were done, we went on a long holiday! We’re just hoping Sven has the cool and laid-back surfer dude attitude to forgive us.

Sven’s blog is a little different, unusual…we like it!

olddesigns-thumb.jpgSeriously, Sven’s blog is probably unlike 99% of the blogs you’ve seen out there. Its got a real personal feeling to it, full of personal posting material, philosophical writing, arty images and a load of inspirational insights. If you’re running low on ideas what to blog about next, make sure you browse though Sven’s RSS feeds because we can guarantee there’s something in it for everyone.

This image on the left is a little timeline of what the blog looked like in the past few years. Recently updated to svensworld 2.0, the current design is fabulous. We couldn’t find any other reference as to who might have designed it but Sven himself, excellent job dude! The only thing we can whinge about a bit is perhaps at the top and bottom of the sidebar, where there’s two units that kinda ruin the blog’s feng-shui. The ad blocks just feel a little out of place. We’d like to apologize to our readers for not slagging the design a bit more - we know it’s what you’re all waiting for :twisted:

You should consider to start a blog design company, or team up with one of our good friends over at weborithm.com to wipeout the competition Sven, we think your work is definitely capable of it. Then again, it seems you’ve found your big wave and you’re riding it! (anyone had enough of the surf puns yet? Hope so because we ran out.)

The more observant boys and girls amongst us might have noticed that instead of the usual .Com, Svensworld is a .DE domain (Germany). It might be another reason why we like Sven’s blog, English isn’t his native language either, like us. This again adds to the more personal touch this blogger has - .Com is just so…Commercial!

To sum up Sven’s World, we took a shortcut, copied the blog’s meta tags and figured that if its good enough for Google, its good enough for you; [meta name="keywords" content="surf waves, gone surfing, art, artists, artwork, concept art, design, basketball, streetball, breakdance, creative, creativity, breakdance, paintings, vacation, holidays, ink, pencil, sculpture, fighting, bboying, hiphop, rap, jazz, funk, ocean, sea," /]

Its great to see that not all of us bloggers have sold our souls to the almighty dollar and that there’s still some people out there that don’t play the make money online game, but instead entertain us with their artistic and benevolent personalities. Surf’s up dude!

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24 Comments »

Comment by Tom Beaton
2008-02-12 21:31:18

I see what you mean about how personal it is. It is a pretty enjoyable blog though (i just read a few posts) and Sven comes across well. The design is nice and different too.

 
Comment by Ninja Steve
2008-02-12 21:51:46

The design is quite minimalist in my opinion. I must say that I prefer the sites where there are a few more colours and the site is a bit more busy.

Just my opinion. Don’t change the blog Sven.

 
Comment by sven Subscribed to comments via email
2008-02-12 21:53:19

Nice review, thanks. :) I almost thought you drowned somwhere, or a whipeout crushed your fingers so you had to get all those guest posters :twisted: I guess we had enough surfer speech already or? :smile:

 
Comment by KiwiPulse
2008-02-12 22:09:02

I need money, feel free to advertise on my blog! Hey John, I want to know if the hoodie that I won last month is sent. :roll:

 
Comment by Rhys Wynne
2008-02-12 23:42:39

I’m surprised by this, but pleased! The amount of “competition reviews” that have been won by mates of bloggers is immense. It’s a great blog, well designed, I like it :).

Much better than half the “make money online” bloggers who comment for teh linkbax!!!!!111oneonone

 
Comment by Sabrina
2008-02-13 01:30:29

I love how breakdance is in there, I can remember watching people in my neighborhood do that, and on YouTube recently and think that’s awesome, I’m headed over to check that out…

 
Comment by Tristan
2008-02-13 02:09:39

Very personal, nice post. Really liked it.

 
Comment by narendra.s.v
2008-02-13 02:12:56

Sven’s blog is interesting with wide range of topics! look cool too :wink:

 
Comment by blossom
2008-02-13 07:50:48

yes it is fine. But I could not see any special monwy making program on it. so I dont know why do you give this title who needs Money?

 
Comment by Ashutosh Mishra
2008-02-13 09:46:09

That’s a really nice and justified review! Thumbs up to you and to Sven!

:)

 
Comment by Pete Moore
2008-02-13 14:00:39

Maybe I missed something but all the recent posts on svens blog were aimed at the make money online/ blogging crowd. With such varied keywords none to do with either, any traffic the blog receives will leave in no time because they are not going to find what they expected or are looking for, which is what happens when blogs become too personalized.

I do like the way he was ready for the johncow crew though nice touch sven lol.

Thanks

Pete Moore

 
Comment by Andrew Pavelski
2008-02-13 16:21:42

Interesting review, I’m definitely going to check out Sven’s blog.

 
Comment by John Cow
2008-02-13 19:28:56

KiwiPulse: errr. thanks for the reminder…knew there was something we forgot to do before we went on holidays!

Sorry about that, can we ask you to mail us again with preference, size and address details?

 
Comment by sir jorge
2008-02-13 19:38:08

my site isn’t trying to make money…i should be featured on the cow

 
Comment by Ruchir Chawdhry
2008-02-13 21:00:17

Nice blog Sven :)

 
Comment by David Chew
2008-02-14 11:19:08

Making money from blog, nice. :grin:

 
2008-02-14 18:44:35

As a former surfer myself, I’d have to say that Sven has a pretty cool blog design.

 
Comment by Stas
2008-02-15 15:21:14

Thanks for the amazing review, I’m really going to check out this blog

 
Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-02-19 11:47:41

it is a nice blog …

answering the guy above blossom: he named it who needs money because there are people who adds their own personal touch and don’t think of money when they blog because blogging is what they like doing, and if money comes then it comes.

 
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