MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch

It’s more of a gimmick than anything else now, in my opinion, not to mention that it adds images to load to pages that could otherwise have had a short load time. I’ve seen web pages that were once 100 kb, and after adding the MyBlogLog widget to their page, it blew up to 500 kb because they had a 10×10 widget (that’s 100 avatar images, each roughly 5 kb or so.) The same goes with the Scriptaculous widget, which can severely increase a page’s load time, but that’s another story

Ah, this decision by TC is gonna go a long way for MyBlogLog.

With this back on TC lots of folks who ditched MBL from their blogs earlier will reconsider. Let’s see how it holds up this time around.

–Zaid

Widget itself representing the community right at the blog?

The idea works if you like to have your readers community be an actual community rather then a separate entity just stopping by. For example take back the newspaper, you buy it at the kiosk, read it, throw it away. But how about finding people who are reading exactly the same section as you are all the time, would that be interesting to be in such circles?

MyBlogLog is a neat tool if you want the community, however I think it still has a lot to work on. Would you agree?

Hi Mike, I’m not officially part of the team any longer, but I’m still pulling for them. Thanks for the resurrection!

Its nice to see it back. Its a cool module.

Cool to see that a big blogger uses this tool too.

The spam is back. I saw at least 3 span bloglogs, including some place called Megite.

Glad to see it back. I didnt use the service at all when it was taken off techcrunch.

I like it too - I’m using it on my non-blog site with much success.

It’s a good way to receive feedback on your site, and shows there are real people behind the site.

It is a shame that it’s slow loading. It means:
- Password fillers don’t work until a page has completely loaded
- The images are often much bigger filesize than they need to be.
- javascript that uses onload doesn’t work until the page has finished loading.

http://bla.st/techcrunch/

speaking of spam…. I’m still getting redirected away from TC.

In particular, it will be exciting to see the picture you post of your namesake #10. I shall eagerly await…..

What happened to the #10 commentor? Now I feel like an idiot.

Cool. I like MyBlogLog.

Nice! Thanks!

Cool, I think its a huge help for smaller blogs and building readers.

Mike — can’t say thanks enough. The whole team is jazzed.

It is good to see MBL back on TechCrunch. I think it is a great way to find new sites/blogs. So what if an occasional spam picture appears now and then. I’ve grown immune to them. You might as well get used to it

Don’t know if it’s the same thing number 10 commenter is referring to, but every now and then, when visiting techcrunch from the feeds (through Firefox RSS reader) the page will be completely taken over by a, more than a little annoying, pop up that hijacks the browser…. Only on techcrunch. I haven’t experiened this on any other site and it’s been intermittent for about the last month. Just in case you want to look at it

Firefox on Macbook pro.

I removed MyBlogLog from one of my sites too. I got tired at looking at some of the ridiculous avatars. Personally, I prefer professional pictures instead of cartoons, symbols, morphed women, etc.

Maybe I’ll add it back again too.

For Brazilian bloggers, there is BlogBlogs.com.br widget (installed on my blogs) too. It´s a good initiative to have regional networks.

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