Tech Volta

If so, please stop
You are polluting the blogosphere.

I recently joined a blogging community called my MyBlogLog, which is a blogging community tool to connect bloggers and people who enjoy blogs; notice the right side my blog. They were recently acquired by Yahoo! so it will be interesting to see where the site goes. I was apart of del.icio.us before they went to Yahoo! and that was a fairly painless process. I’ve found some cool blogs and met some interesting people in my short time on MyBlogLog. It has been a good experience and I’m hoping I can continue to network with some great bloggers. There has been some drawbacks to my BlogLog experience. It seems about half the people on there are viral bloggers (probably a little less). And incoincidently this blog is a result of a comment by me on Adsense Tracker post about MyBlogLog communities.

This is how I define a viral blogger:

1. Creates sites that are keyword driven
2. Joins social networking without participating or solely to “game”
3. Joining such sites and adding users to drive clicks (such the viral name)
   • “Hey <USER> added such and such I’m going to look!”, people are curious creatures

Ah well I thought I would be nice enough to supply you with an example of these viral bloggers. I think communities like MyBlogLog can help rid us of viral bloggers like:

Oh yes, RichGuys, thanks for the comment about how you love my blog; too bad you never read it. I was kind of excited when I first got the message, so I went to see what he looked at, in the stats package MyBlogLog has; it is fairly decent. mmm Nothing changed so I was thinking what’s up with that? What a crazy guy! So I go over to his profile and look at what sites he has, maybe I’ll take a look leave him a comment. Wow he has almost 30 sites. They look all to be keyword driven. I bet this guy is making a killing with adsense, so maybe he is a richguy and/or guys. Too bad you are gaming the system buddy.

I really love these two sites next to each other, nicely shadow boxed thank you, how to gain weight and then how to lose the weight you gained. Brilliant brilliant I say! I looked at a few of the sites, all the ones I looked at had no author and generally used the same theme.

These are the kind of people that will ultimately hurt the blogging scene. Yes I understand people love making money and taking advantage of such opportunities, but we need to stand up to viral bloggers like this. If you have this user added on MyBlogLog, delete him, if you have him on any other blogging community please delete him and spread the word.

Oh and he is also creating a Blogging Network! and can get you 500 MySpace friends! Awesome. We are currently in web 2.0 or bubble 2.0, previous post, but I think this is something that happens during any big boom of popularity. During High School I had a friend who made a lot of money selling beanie babies when they were hot and they got out of it before they cooled off. This is kind of like that example, but I think the blogging scene or blogosphere, has a lot more depth and integrity than beanie babies.

I’m not sure if viral blogging is the right term, maybe scam blogging would be more accurate. I just like the sound of viral blogging. Sounds deceptive.

That’s my opinion on the subject and I’m sticking to it. Also this blog will be ad-free, rock on bloggers.