Lars-Christian.com|This is me at the intarwebs.

Let me start again by apologizing for not posting new posts. I’ve more or less spent every available minute this week working on Bloggst, and it’s really paying off, but I’ll get back to that in my next post. This time I thought I’d take a look at one of those new, cool up and coming web projects, and I chose Crispyblogposts. And before you ask, no, this isn’t a paid review.

As their about page says, Crispyblogposts is a social bookmarking site strictly for blogs. Translated that means that it’s like Digg, but for blogs. I love this idea, as any chance for bloggers to gain deserved recognition is good. Unfortunately there are some small drawbacks, which I will get to soon.

I’ll start with the positives however. As I stated, I love the idea, so they definitely get an A for effort. The design is also beautiful, and you’ll get a good view of the site and how it works after spending about a minute there. The idea of using channels (that can be created by users) is also a good one, and ranking each channel by popularity on the frontpage is pretty cool. I would imagine that with some popularity however, there would be a wealth of bogus channels created, so they might have some management work on their hands there.

If you venture into the most popular channel called Blogging, you should right now see that an article I wrote over at Bloggst is actually quite near the top, with 13 points! I’ll share a small secret however, I gave myself three of those points. One at home, one at my girlfriends and one at University. How did I do that? Well you see, CPB right now allows everyone to vote for articles without any registration required. I am not sure whether or not this is going to change when they come out of beta, but I sure hope so. It is all too easy to cheat the system when it is only based on cookies and IPs, and registration is a must for sites like these.

Another drawback is that despite that one of my articles is “extremely popular” in the most popular channel, I have yet to see any significant traffic from CPB. Despite the 13 votes for the article, I am seeing less than three readers from the site, which means that currently it’s not worth the effort for bloggers to submit and share their content through the site. A site like this is completely dependant on user participation, and without it, it’s more or less worthless. Someone has to be around and help it get the ball rolling though, and as soon as they require registration to vote, count me in!

All in all I would say that Crispyblogposts has potential to fill a void in the blogging scene as a user driven democratic source for the best and most useful blog articles. They do however have a long way to go before they can claim that spot however, and it will require a lot of work and some serious promotion. It’s a one-man project however, and I find that alone extremely impressive, and I wish the guy in charge good luck with Crispyblogposts in the future!