Mark Evans

TheGoodBlogs Deserves Some Love

I had lunch yesterday with Vernon Lun, one of the two programming wizards behind TheGoodBlogs.

For those of you not familiar with TheGoodBlogs, it’s a really cool widget that helps bloggers promote their own blogs and those of others. TGB has been available for about a year, and it now has more than 2,000 bloggers on board, which is pretty good given Vernon and his partner, Tony, are far better programmers rather than marketers.

While TGB has enjoyed some success - and generates about 80,000 pageviews a day for its users - it probably hasn’t received as much love and attention as it deserves given it’s a tool that adds value to a blog and, at the same, encourages bloggers to build a community.

Maybe it’s a marketing issue or not being at the right place at the right time but it does seem strange that non-descript tools such as Pownce get thrust into the spotlight while TGB quietly toils away in the background. Of course, it helps that Digg.com’s Kevin Rose is involved with Pownce but you what I mean.

If you get a chance, check out TGB. It’s easy to install and the kind of tool that you and your blog readers will find useful.