BlissLogs

If you hadn’t noticed, I added the MyBlogLog widget to my site a week or two ago. I just kind of snuck it in without mentioning it, to see if it generated results on its own. Well, I have been less than impressed with it’s solo results. Thus far I have only two members of my MyBlogLog community: AngryCat, and Centurion. I don’t know what I expected to happen, but not much did happen. I’ll be honest, I didn’t spend any time joining other communities in an effort to generate traffic so I didn’t expect any miracles. If you don’t know about this social networking site, I’ve copied their about page here:

About MyBlogLog

You probably know a ton about your favorite bloggers – what they think about the subjects they write about, maybe some of their work and life history… you may even know what toothpaste they use. But how much do you know about all the other people who read their blogs? And how much do they know about you?

For all this talk of a global conversation throughout the blogosphere, there’s a lot to be desired. It’s a two-tiered system, with bloggers talking amongst each other and the majority of the readers looking on from the fringes. You may get to call out something from the sidelines by leaving a comment, but things could be so much better. For everyone.

MyBlogLog is launching this new Communities service to empower authors and readers to operate at the same level. For the first time, everyone who reads a web site or blog can learn about and engage with one another, and in the process take the conversation to a whole new level.

Readers can become friends with other people who read your favorite blogs. See what else they’re reading. Check out their MySpace and Friendster profiles and view their Flickr photostreams. Authors can learn more about their readers individually and as a group. What do they like and what are they ignoring? What are they reading elsewhere on the Web?

MyBlogLog enables you to take advantage of your existing presence on the Web and ties it into communities of like-minded readers and authors to add context to the conversations in which you take part.

It looks like a great place for bloggers and blog readers to learn more about each other. One great feature that I am going to start using immediately is the way that I can visit the MyBlogLog profile of my favorite bloggers and see all the sites that interest them. This is a great spring board into finding sites that in turn interest me. MyBlogLog is a great community for bloggers to go to get to know each other.