This is the second blog that I'm reviewing for Rome Uy, the first being "For Newbies Trying to Make Money Online" back in December of 2007.

So… what is "Rome Uy dot com" all about?

Since Rome's "about" page contains only "This will contain my about page Will be making one later.", I had to figure it all out on my own. Luckily, it was easy. It's a personal blog which focuses on different things, but the articles which stood out were about video gaming, both offline and on.

Site Design

This WordPress theme looks fine, even though the main content area is narrower than what I'm used to seeing. He's not using images at the top of every article, so it works well for him. If he did, I think it could get ugly, really fast.

The navigational items at top, as well as the categories and archives listing in the second sidebar, make it a complete blog as far as I'm concerned. Anything else added is just the topping on the cake, as long as it isn't overwhelming.

Article Content

I'm not into video gaming. Perhaps it's because it didn't get popular until I was well into my adult years, but I'll never know for sure. So… I look for content that's written about other things. It didn't take me long to find "Okrut and Orkut", where Rome talked about people in Brazil and India searching for Orkut but spelling it wrong. Not knowing diddly about Orkut, I didn't investigate any further.

I spotted a lot of articles that didn't have anything to do with video gaming, but they didn't stand out as much. I don't have time to go through them, but I'll be back.

My Overall Opinion

It's an unusual blog, for an unusual Pinoy (Filipino) from my neck of the woods. It just makes it all the more interesting.

For a blog that's a mere 7 months old, it's growing fairly fast. He already has 2300 subscribers to his feed, which is much more than I can say for myself. It's obvious he's a social blogger, or his numbers could never get that high, that fast.

Despite the main topics, I find the blog very interesting from my perspective.

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