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Review of Blogwatch
The Blogwatch guys have done good work keeping the web fresh with articles and updates. The editors have also maintained a clean layout and exploited various online technologies. The information is also layered in a user friendly way. The quality of posts are also very good and the interviewee mentions, they do spend a lot of time making the content digestible.
One thing that I don't see much of is comments from the readers. I suppose a lot of Blogwatch.ph content is getting reposted on Facebook or other blogs so the discussion is happening in these platforms. It might be a good idea to get some links from these discussions and list them below Blogwatch.ph posts.
I would also think of offline engagement as it might be difficult to keep the same amount of traffic after the election period. It might help to participate in various blogger gatherings and other social media events and present some content from blogwatch and their aggregation strategies.