Sellsius has added you as a contact.
Have you received this message in your email yet? If you’re a blogger, you probably will if you join MyBlogLog and visit Sellsius (come by and say hello). IMHO, MyBlogLog is the hottest thing in the blogosphere. MBL is building a community network of bloggers and readers, encouraging us to make contact with each other, learn about each other’s interests (other blogs) and showcase our blogs. The community links are great for discovering new blogs. I’ve found a number of really good ones, well under the radar, for now. And I’ve just scratched the surface.
MyBlogLog is utterly simple to use, but very powerful. Just sign up, add your profile, join a hot community, add a link to your blog and you’re off. You’ll see who visits and leaves a comment. Once you begin adding contacts, you’ll be added back. Make a comment and make a friend. Discover cool blogs. It’s a viral community. Before you know it, you will be looking forward to the “…..has added you as a contact” in your email. And when you do, you’ll invariably visit the site and meet someone new— or maybe even an old friend.
Here’s a great MBL tool—- a Wordpress widget which displays fellow MBLers when they visit your site and let’s you be displayed on their blogs. So even if they don’t make a comment, you know they stopped by. Fantastic.
The complete guide to MBL is here. MyBlogLog is a great site that deserves great success.
Update: The MBL widget is also available for Typad blogs (thanks Teresa).
Hi sellsius°, thanks for the mention
>> It’s a viral community.
You hit the correct point here
Great summary
Got the message - thank you. I wanted to ask you where did you find those lips? More than the picture itself - it is the lips that got me.. Sellsius - you had me at the lips…
Can you guess who that is?
Yeah, I guess he does have nice lips
He’s also wearing a puffy shirt.
Yup - Anders Celsius - Mathmatician and astronomer. 1701-1744 Died from TB.
I had a hard time figuring out what MBL was all about until I started getting messages. Totally love it! It is a great way to persoanlly connect with people who read your blog and the bloggers you read.
Poor Celsius: TB just ain’t what it used to be.
Just a by the way, the widgets are easy to add to typepad blogs, MYbloglog has links for typepad, the widgets kind of install themselves. Also TB is not such a bad thing. There are several people who call me TB, I think the T stands for Teresa and the B for Boardman, but then again you never can be too sure.
Thanks Teresa, we’ll update the post.
I signed up just before I read this, tracing it through from Bloodhound, but when I got to, go bury this code where the sun don’t shine…
I never know where they want me to put those, and I don’t like horsing around with the template.
We had a tough time with the code too. We ended up with bullet points in the sidebar. There oughta be an easier way.
I hate messing with the template too, so I leave that to Rudy and his techie brain.
Rudy but my Top 10 Blogger stamp in my template…but I screwed around with the template and lost it
Now that IC tweaked my header to be a “home” key and put my comments in the sidebar, I’ve lost the ability to trade out templates for other “generics”. Too scared to lose the newly added features.
I have to agree with your “MyBlogLog is the hottest thing in the blogosphere” quote. They are onto something really great I think and very much looking forward to what features they add next.
JF-
I have been a user of MyBlogLog stat tracking widget since I first launched the Real Estate Tomato, but never really grasped the value of the community element. Recently, I have revisited the viral element of the service and agree that it is very hot, and will make an impact in the blogosphere for sure. I have been planning on writing a review of it’s usefulness for the RET audience… as usual you beat me to it.
Jim
Oh yeah, MBL is really getting some traction. I love that widget too.
MBL’s usefulness has not been fully realized—I like connecting with bloggers outside real estate. It may be useful in expanding one’s blogging span of influence. After all, real estate touches everyone.
Knowing you Jim, you’ll find another useful angle. You have been on quite a roll. Keep it up buddy. The Real Estate Tomato is in season all year round.
I installed MyBlogLog and noticed today that suddenly none of my blog posts or pages would validate for W3C compliance.
The MyBlogLog code was the reason. It is a simple fix. Whereever in the code there is & it need to be replaced with & otherwise all of your posts and pages will have 20 generated errors.
I know a lot of us signed up, and I really like the widget, and it turns out to be a pretty simple fix.
I thought you would want to know.
Thanks for the head’s up David. We will take a look.
I see it doesn’t show that I typed an “&” wondering if this will do it. so it has to be replace the and sign with and ampersand semicolon.
Thanks again David. We bet not many bloggers are aware of what you found.