Blog Explosion

Following on from The Ministry of Information, I've tried joining BlogExplosion to see what happens. It's a sort of link exchange scheme; every two blogs you view through the site gets you one showing of your own blog.

There's also a blog directory, which may or may not turn out to be the most useful part of the site. Not being sure what category Where Worlds Collide belongs, I've tried listing the Railways, Games and Music sub-blogs in the BlogExplosion directory in three different categories.

I'm not sure whether or not this will give Where Worlds Collide any new readers; so far Blog Explosion hasn't presented me with any sites I particularly want to visit again. I'm not sure the blogs I've seen even approach the Sturgeon Number. Many many vapid thoughts from American teenagers. Rather more rightwing gloating about the American election that I really care to read. And the angst-ridden teenage poetry! My eyes! My eyes!

Posted by TimHall at November 15, 2004 10:40 PM | TrackBack

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You're right, you're right. I guess it's like all blogging, you read 50 to bookmark 1.

Jen

Posted by: Jen on November 15, 2004 11:00 PM

Better to see bad teenage poetry on a blog and be able to skip over it than to walk into an open mic in progress. And of course any and all who have a hard time expressing themselves just make up for it through liberal use of the f - bomb.

Posted by: Rich on November 19, 2004 10:34 AM

Hello, popping in from BE. Well, it is early days yet for BE. As word gets out about BE there will, one hopes, be more member blogs of real intellectual substance and on topics such as history. All of my visitors, as far as I can determine, have come via BE and one establishes a rapport with one’s readers and enjoys visiting their blogs in return. It is just a matter of putting the time in to surf and being a gracious guest when popping in on blogs via BE. I would invest in it, if it had an IPO.

Hope
http://humorhangout.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Hope on November 20, 2004 07:47 PM

Well, I've actually found some interesting blogs via. Blog Explosion. I've also found many more completely uninteresting blogs, and quite a few extremely bad blogs!

I really liked this one, for example:

http://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Elliott Back on December 15, 2004 09:32 PM

Some do make you think-but they are rare.
Teenage poetry iss fresh.

Posted by: sensor on December 16, 2004 07:45 PM


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