Thursday 19th July, 2007

BlogExplosion - Ugh

BlogExplosion seems to be everything I hate about blogging all rolled into one particularly irritating website. That is that it helps people with nothing to say broadcast their breakfast plans to a mass audience thereby making decent, relevant content harder to come by.

Obviously I don't object to personal blogs full stop - there is even a place for "today I left my maths homework until after dinner" - it's just that people should try harder to recognise their audience and if you're writing a blog for ageing, coked up, lesbian goths in Whitby, you don't try and market it at people across the globe regardless of gender, sexuality and drug habits.

The principle of BlogExplosion is that you earn credits for reading other people's blogs and then use these credits to buy exposure for your own blog. Whilst you can limit your surfing to a category, these are far too broad to be particularly helpful.

The consequences are:

a) you have to look at a load of rubbish irrelevant blogs

b) a load of people begrudgingly have to look at yours

Since 97% of blogs have a target audience of about 7, particularly it would seem, those who feel the need to join BlogExplosion, it's like saying "If you smash your brick against my head, I'll smash mine against yours." Which loses its appeal after the first serious head injury.

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You can't live in Whitby without having a fantastically toned bottom, so many steps...

Posted by Anonymous on Friday 20th July, 2007 at 10:22

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