{"id":108,"date":"2007-01-21T00:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T08:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/21\/mybloglog-yes-or-no\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T10:24:02","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T18:24:02","slug":"mybloglog-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/outreach\/blogging\/mybloglog-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"MyBlogLog, yes or no?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mybloglog.com\/buzz\/members\/xensen\/\" title=\"xensen\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-07\/MyBlogLog.jpg\" alt=\"MyBlogLog\" title=\"MyBlogLog\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Yahoo recently purchased MyBlogLog for $10 million. Some blogs I read have been touting the service. The idea, I guess, is to put a face to the sometimes invisible communities of blog readers. You could say it&#8217;s a kind of Facebook or MySpace service for blogs. For example, a MyBlogLog widget puts the images of subscribers on their blog posts, or enables the blog site to show visuals of the most recent visitors.<\/p>\n<p>I have kind of mixed feelings about this. I can see its value if you&#8217;re really trying to develop a network. (And why spend time on a blog otherwise?) At the same time, I like to retain some degree of privacy. Well, I signed up, but that&#8217;s about it so far.<\/p>\n<p>I know some of my readers use MyBlogLog. Are you happy with it? Should I be spending time on this? (I sure don&#8217;t want to work as hard at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolf-howl.com\/grayhat-seo\/mybloglog-shameless-whore\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"graywolf\">as this guy does<\/a>.) So, should I build a community? Install the widgets? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>The basics: <a href=\"http:\/\/qureyoon.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/complete-guide-to-mybloglogging.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"MyBlogLoging\">The Complete Guide to MyBlogLog(ing)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I&#8217;m not a big user of such sites, and I should probably work harder at network building. But I dabble a bit in Technorati, MyBlogLog, and BUMPzee, and I&#8217;ve come to like MyBlogLog the best; recently I put a &#8220;recent readers&#8221; badge on this blog. The statistics MBL offers are a nice feature, and I prefer the interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo recently purchased MyBlogLog for $10 million. Some blogs I read have been touting the service. The idea, I guess, is to put a face to the sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2,20,18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}