Comments on: Tool Time Friday | Is MyBlogLog Changed Since Yahoo! Tookover?

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:21:39 +0000

cooper – Glad to hear what you had to say. I’ve had similar problems, events, issues as you.
As far as their ‘new plan’ – well, they say the respect our privacy, but, unless I’m reading this incorrectly, they want us to broadcast ourselves on the social Web?
By the way – I’ve perused your BlogRoll and most of your community members – what a selection of great sites to visit and learn. I also visit those that you mention in your posts. Thanks for putting it all together.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:13:23 +0000

Chris – I agree with you – ever since Yahoo got involved it seems things have been heading south. Several members of my community are bailing – their not necessarily saying that out loud, but when rabid bloggers who can’t miss a day without posting something all of a sudden start posting weekly or not at all – well, the handwriting is on the wall.
Your last sentence is just what has/is happening via Facebook and MySpace.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

By: cooper

cooper — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:13:38 +0000

I have random problems., people disappear from my communities, I disappear from theirs, it is slower and appears more cumbersome. I’m not about to put code in my blog to validate – that is just me though.

I’ll see what happens, I don’t want spambots to have anymore access to my sites than they already do which is what I think will happen.

I don’t really care about all that public services stuff I actually prefer not to advertise everywhere and have curbed and deleted my accounts on a lot of other services anyway. I prefer a smaller gentler my blog log. lol

Most of my readers don’t come from any social network anyway though I have gotten some super readers and good reads from here…wink wink.. it is becoming less the case.

By: cooper

cooper — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:13:00 +0000

I’ll see what happens, I don’t want spambots to have anymore access to my sites than they already do which is what I think will happen.

Most of my readers don’t come from any social network anyway though I have gotten some super readers and good reads from here…wink wink.. it is becoming less the case.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:15:37 +0000

Morgan,

I’ve been a MyBlogLog fan since long before the Yahoo! buyout. I had big problems logging into my account after they “merged” the MBL accounts with our existing Yahoo! accounts. Fortunately Robyn Tippins was able to connect me with the right tech guy to help out and got my account issues straightened out right away.

On the bummer side Robyn has left her position as Community Manager for MBL and is doing something else with Yahoo these days. (Good for her. Not so much for MBL.)

I’m seeing BlogCatalog more and more. A quick comparison of Alexa reach shows MBL use seems to be declining, especially over the last 3-6 mos. At the same time BlogCatalog’s use has been growing at a steady clip for the last year.

With all the distractions Yahoo has right now and their near total neglect of MBL I expect BlogCatalog will continue to take market share for the foreseeable future.

By: Chris Cree

Chris Cree — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:15:00 +0000

Morgan,

On the bummer side Robyn has left her position as Community Manager for MBL and is doing something else with Yahoo these days. (Good for her. Not so much for MBL.)

With all the distractions Yahoo has right now and their near total neglect of MBL I expect BlogCatalog will continue to take market share for the foreseeable future.

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