BlogCode is a site which recommends blogs similar to a certain blog, which you specify. This principle is extremely simple, and the site is almost as simple to use.

In order to gain a recommendation, you must choose from an already coded site and code a new one. Coding involves answering questions using a JS slider. These questions are about the blog’s content, writing style, the writer(s) and also consistency. When you have answered 3 pages of questions, it orders a series of results with closeness of matches in BlogCode (i.e. the given answers). For me, I get numerous blogs between 70-80%, including some small one’s I already read, like The Tlog!

More than one person can code a blog, and the more coders the more accurate the recommendations. The need for multiple bloggers to help one another on such a site provides an interesting mix of blogging, a blog directory and social networking.

Some blogs you find through BlogCode are interesting, while others are not. One benefit of using such a service is for bloggers to find similar sites, from which they can gain inspiration. This can avoid bloggers block.If you are logged in, all blogs you code are recorded to your account - allowing you to see developed recommendations.

The site could vastly improve through a much more Web 2.0 design. I find the current design fairly bloated, and I dislike the use of dark green. Also, some AJAX would improve the site, greatly.

I dislike the use of the word of code, as I think like… code… as in HTML or C# and soforth.

You can code and view recommendations for this blog here.

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