mybloglog

MBL loses user due to forced account merge

Posted by robwatts on September 21, 2007 at 4:36 pm

I was browsing with firefox earlier over at MBL and decided to edit my profile. It was at that point the login screen was forced on me asking me to sign up with my Y! ID or if I didn’t have one the option to create one. I didn’t want to do this so I [...]

Mybloglog messaging system and why I think it sucks

Posted by robwatts on June 30, 2007 at 8:29 am

I just noticed the mybloglog mass message system thing. I don’t like it, it reminds me of that annoying myspace and orkut mass message thing. It is a recipe for spam spam spam and time wasting silly messages just filling up my inbox.
If every member of every community I’m in uses it just once a [...]

Blogging and continuing missed conversations

Posted by robwatts on May 15, 2007 at 10:55 pm

Continuing the conversation on your blog
This post isn’t really aimed at the hardcore experienced blogger, its more aimed at those just starting out, people like me in fact. I’m fairly knew to all this and tend to blog from a search centric POV. Whilst its generally true that its search engines that will give most bloggers their [...]

Discontinuing MyBlogLog visitor tracking

Posted by robwatts on March 25, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Due to improvements and upgrades to the server architecture that hosts this site, I regret to say that I’ll be discontinuing the mybloglog visitor tracking script.
Ive noticed that the scripts aren’t perfoming how I expect them to and I just don’t really have the time to recode it all so that it works.
I’ll be emailing existing users to advise them soon.
I [...]

Lazy ubiquitous everywhereiness

Posted by robwatts on March 2, 2007 at 1:34 pm

Ok this isn’t what I do, but its something to think about, especially when you have one of those widget things that have sprung up here there and everywhere on your blog.
Only the other week, I noticed that the same guy appeared to be on my blog all of the time. I wondered why, he [...]