Webomatica - Latest Comments in Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:52:59 -0000

Thats interesting... I'll have to take closer look at what you have done, there...!

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Mini-News — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:46:52 -0000

Webomatica, I DID THE THING YOU ARE DREAMING OF!
At the day you published this blog, I launched
my own version of the same idea:

Personal READ log of MyBlogLog community in the form of
"Face Ads":
http://MyBlogLog.Mini-News.com

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:05:42 -0000

Hi Ipanema - I didn't sign up for 2000 bloggers although I thought about it. I can totally understand the motivations why someone would sign up - I almost did myself. But it was the post from Zoli that made me think twice.

Yeah I do think the "gatekeepers" have some motivation as well to protect their rank and position. But personally I've only been doing this blog thing in earnest since the middle of last year and I haven't felt like there's a sinister cabal of A and B list bloggers refusing to link. Valleywag linked to some ridiculous Second Life articles I wrote. Other bloggers I admire like Mathew Ingram, Tony Hung, engtech, Rex Hammock, etc. take note as I link to them and have commented a few times on their sites. It just takes regular effort...

Maybe I should just write another post about what has worked for me more recently instead of answering comments.

Anyway, back to 2000 bloggers... the nature of the net is that when one amusing idea goes away another will rise to take its place, so I'm sure something new and fun will come along... meanwhile, I think MyBlogLog is helping me a ton at finding new blogs and posts to link to (gosh I sound like a shill).

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

ipanema — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:05:48 -0000

I'm wondering what was your original idea when you join 2000 bloggers? It's good in your case that you understand 'gaming' and all those tech words, so probably you know the effect before joining. But for tech morons like me who doesn't understand its effect, it wasn't what was on my mind when I joined. It was more of fun. Only lately I knew of what it was. But I'm not opting out simply because I didn't join for that purpose.

So what's in it for those self-professed 'gatekeepers' of the blogosphere who run to Google and Technorati to complain? With their actions, it show what they're afraid of. It's pure selfishness and fear of losing out. I think it's all numbers game. RANKS. They think it's only for them. Pathetic.

Cheers!

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Chris — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:52:25 -0000

Totally agree: automatically-generated blogrolls are the Mark of the Beast - an almost certain sign that the blogger that is using them is too lazy to go out there and find proper links themselves.

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Rose — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:32:00 -0000

Today I opted out of the project, but wish Tino luck.

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:18:54 -0000

Hey Elaine - you raise some good points in your post. As I mentioned above, I don't really think the system is broken. But I'll link to your blogpost in mine to get your side of things...

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Elaine Vigneault — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:01:03 -0000

"Itâ€™s called variance and it happens in the blogosphere just as much as it happens in the stock market and in the poker rooms," as I wrote in my piece about this at:
http://www.elainevigneault.com/2007/02/06/2000-...

If the Technorati algorithm is so simplistic that it can't account for a temporary jolt like 2000 Bloggers is creating, then what's Technorati worth?

We are inspired and we will go on! http://www.2kbloggers.com/

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:51:15 -0000

Yeah... I'm sure the intentions were good when the project was concieved of but it might be getting a little out of hand. But I can only choose for myself...

Hey, thanks for directing me towards this : Disclosure Policy Wordpress Plugin. I was looking for something like it.

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Paul OFlaherty — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:38:07 -0000

A quick search of technorati last night showed some seriously out of place results all due to the links generated by this 2000 bloggers thing.

The worst thing of all is that I wasn't on it (sulk) ;)

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:00:50 -0000

oh man... my image of you is slightly marred... well I'll still leave my link in, because I chose it :|

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

engtech — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:53:11 -0000

What's funny is that I joined the 2000 bloggers project. :)

//el punta de linkos

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

zolierdos — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:33:47 -0000

Thanks, there's at least four of us on that bandwagon now:-)

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

webomatica — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:31:31 -0000

You're welcome... ! I appreciated your new take.

Re: Opting Out Of 2000 Bloggers

Jeremiah Owyang — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:25:32 -0000

Thanks for this. I'm Checking the official Technorati blog (thanks for link). They appear to be listening.