BlogExplosion

<![CDATA[I tried BlogExplosion and found it lacking. It’s a form of unstructured Webrings with advertising and a navigation banner atop a list of blogs that, apparently, match the description the user enters for their blog. The navigation system awards points—it is rather Pavlovian—and even displays a message that I am “surfing too fast” as I scroll through the sites looking for something that interests me. The banner ticks down until the time I can look at the next site while not penalizing myself. The points appear to buy attention by bringing your site up to the top of the list more frequently, but I’m not going to hang around to see if it works in any comprehensible way.
It slowed down my surfing and didn’t present me with any insight, putting me on a treadmill instead.]]>