It’s Friday, so you all know what that means: it’s time to take a look through the blogosphere and fish out some great posts to keep you entertained and informed over the weekend!

Tejvan R. Pettinger of Net Writing has decided to take a look at the pros and cons to diversifying a niche blog. On the one hand, readers come to expect a certain topic when they arrive at a particular blog. On the other hand, visitors interested in one topic are probably interested in related topics too. Do you diversify or do you niche?

The now famous (or is he infamous) John Cow takes his out into his end of the pasture so that we can understand a typical day in the life of a bovine dot com moogul in the making. He still has a regular 9-5 kind of job — he’s got calves to feed, after all — so the John Cow blog is above and beyond that; it’s almost like a second job, except it’s way more fun!

Hari put up a guest post over at Untwisted Vortex listing seven things that are immediate blog turn-offs. These are things that Hari notices within the first 10 seconds of visiting any given blog and if you satisfy just one of them, then Hari will never visit your blog again. Are you guilty of any of these things?

Want to make money online and you’re a fan of reality TV? Well, someone has decided to mash these two together to create the Next Internet Millionaire Reality Show. You can probably imagine what the concept would look like, but why do that when the Internet Business Blog found a leaked video clip on YouTube?

A blogger has decided to make his own boxed tile game and now he wants to give it away. I found out about this giveaway through Contest Blogger and all you have to do to enter the contest is link back to Ramblings from the Marginalized using the anchor text “Quartile,” which happens to be the name of the game. The contest runs until September 15th.