I expect all this is being done a hundred times over right now.

I’m trying to imagine how this could open up into something social and collaborative (again without just copying what’s already out there)

But then again just because you like something, or a few things, after reading a review by one person at site x, that doesn’t mean that you’ll like what any of their other reviewers like: that’s something that can be really hard to pin down. Maybe I haven’t tried hard enough but I’ve never found it that easy to cross-reference individual reviewers.

The horrible way is to go anywhere that has endless reviews by people that loved something. I always want to read the bad reviews rather than the fulsome praise, because that’s where you’re more likely to find reviews by people that have used and lived with the item, and found the flaws.

Having said all that, at the moment I’m just planning on a couple of things: one is to review all the media I own, and the second is to review anything and everything, but I’m not sure how that would work…

While I’m hat-tipping nice designs, I came across some lovely menus and pop-ups here

Of course, dpreview is great for digital cameras. I went looking for printer reviews, and found a site that gave an indepth. 6 page review of a few different printers, and yet somehow managed to neglect to mention the quality of the output. Madness!

I’m interested to see how you’ll do it - It’s very useful in reviews to have comparisons with other items in it’s class (particularly if they have a small turning circle), but it’d get expensive if you had to buy each one. Are you thinking of getting other people to pitch in as well so you can get greater coverage?

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