Comments on: In defense of 2000 bloggers

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:45:02 +0000

AJ - When people upload their own photos to things like MyBlogLog, the photo compilation doesn’t have any sort of uniformity other than the photo size. People upload photos of cats, they use cartoons, animated gifs… The 2000 Bloggers Project looks like an art project. It looks like thought went into it - because it did.

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MyCatBlogLog Public Alpha » Webomatica — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:47:16 +0000

[...] way to form a blog network without having the link thing be a problem on Technorati. One solution, suggested by //engtech was to do it in Flash. So I decided to experiment with a silly page featuring MyBlogLog bloggers [...]

By: A.J. Valliant

A.J. Valliant — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:07:47 +0000

I guess I’m missing the point of having a site with 2000 pictures of people faces on it. It’s slightly more interesting than a sheet of paper with 2000 names on it. I can’t see what purpose it could serve aside from a confusing directory of blogs/link farm.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:01:12 +0000

Great. I’m glad you like it. It’s a wordpress theme designed for use as a community blog. I just changed the header and a few other things… :)
We could really use your help. You have some excellent ideas!

By: engtech

engtech — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:09:59 +0000

Wow, the site is looking very nice Elaine.

That’s a great layout.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:08:30 +0000

FYI, 2000 Bloggers lives on at http://www.2kbloggers.com!!!

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:59:59 +0000

I do like your second suggestion: that the link go back to a central page and the bloggers featured on that page be changed randomly. That seems fair.

Generally, when a first-timer to my blog drops a link I take into account what their intentions appear to be. If they have something to say about my post, I expect them to say it in the comments. To me, “I blogged about this HERE, check it out” as the comment in its entirety reeks of withholding and narcissism, and when I am the one calling someone a withholding narcissist, you KNOW it’s bad.

I leave the comment stand, but I post what I think of that. It’s pissed off some people…who never came before, and who never came back. I can afford to lose them.

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Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:34:46 +0000

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By: Doug Karr

Doug Karr — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:30:48 +0000

It was a great idea - exposing a lot of blogs to a lot of bloggers. The good blogs would have rose to the top, the bad would have eventually fell off. In a world with 55,000,000 blogs and hundreds more getting on every hour, 2,000 doesn’t amount to a hill of beans!

I think what you actually spoke to here is the fact that there is a big ‘ol fat gray area in the middle, and no one can determine where the line begins or ends.

Thanks engtech!

By: envec69

envec69 — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:56:15 +0000

one could argue that the same problem might appear with mybloglog. in the beginning most users were interesting in discovering new blogs and interacting, but now it looks like people are mass-joining communities to improve their visibility

By: 2000 Bloggers - » Welcome

2000 Bloggers - » Welcome — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:59:53 +0000

[...] in a piece called In Defense of 2000 Bloggers: If all it was is a glorified linkfarm then I don’t think participants would have done things [...]

By: baredfeetandteeth

baredfeetandteeth — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:11:01 +0000

*deletes //engtech from her blogroll*

Joking Joking. I think people take their interweb far too seriously.