In my last blog on this topic, I began to go through a list of blog submission sites. I ended up getting very sidetracked. I discovered blog after blog and service after service.
Before I am sidetracked, let me continue. Next item I came across was Gaurdian Weblog which is, unfortunately, no longer being updated. It now refers you to newsblog which is quite alive and viable.
Next, I came across one that I rather like because I am a critic. Blog critics is an organization that reviews blogs. I am a bit afraid of what they will have to say about this site.
I proceeded down Blog Street and added Lumpy's Corner to their site. I added their site to a list of sites I link to. This site offers several search options and a directory based listing.
I also added blogwise to my list of links. You can browse by country, keywords, new additions or simply search. You have 41,000 plus blogs listed here.
One of my personal pet peeves is that if you post something to the web, the links should work. weblogalot and globeofblogs both seemed very good for having working links. Globe of Blogs actually does link checking.
One of the more interesting links I found was a genealogy site of sorts. I guess I am rather biased because I found out through relatives that my roots actually go back to Polish royalty and there are actually mountains in Poland named after my ancestors. Blogtree is a blog genealogy. They seem to be having some bandwidth problems. It is a tree of blog genealogy. I will be sure to join and give Geek credit for my addiction and maybe Exios will blame me for his. I hope they resolve the bandwidth issues for it sounds liek a very neat idea.
I then launched off to blog universeç—´ list but I was somewhat disappointed. There were dead links. Nonetheless, the list still had enough neat blogs to make it worth the mouse clicks and backspace taps.
I stumbled across a blog I think I will be adding to my blog roll very soon. I like the theme of "A bear, the world and the strong urge to hibernate", the The Truth Laid Bear is definitely worth a read. They are, at this moment, not accepting submissions.
I next stopped off at memigo, a news site its front page is a long list of news items and a bit cumbersome. Fortunately, the search feature works very well. It has some neat features such as a "now", a best and rejected links area.
Lumpy then made a wrong turn down the Cyber Boulevard of Broken Dreams. This is a Cyber Hood to avoid.
- The next stop I made was rather scary. I hopped over to Blogarama. I thought it a bit scary because its patron links are the same sites hit me with comment spam. I am sorry to say this but I would just avoid this one. Using their search engine generates just as many sexually orientated blogs as it does regular blogs.
- I continued surfing on to Content Matters, which had similar sponsors but none that have actually spammed me. I still am a bit leary and I doubt 2946 sites are really worth any risk.
I then entered a site who's pubsub which sounds just great and is, according to their site, reviewed well by searchEngineWatch.com. I signed up. They track over 9 million sources. I have not had the membership to let my lists "propigate" yet but I am hoping this will get the bad taste out of my mouth from the last two sites I mentioned.
One must be careful how they phrase their searches on the above site. It is very literal.
Further, down the Cyber News Trail I ended up at Fastbuzz, a neat news site that will actually allow you to put live feeds on your site.
Just when I thought I was safe from Web Trickery, I found BlogSearchEngine.com and was immediately greeted by a pop up warning me that my computer might be infected by spyware. I take that as a safe warning to stay away.
My next stop fell into the "mixed bag" category. Eatonweb.com offered many nice links categorized both geographically and categorically including a top fifty list but there seemed to be spammers in the list as well. One must use their judgment here. I did find these neato links there.
- Somjuan.com who links to some very neat snow sculptures
- Bizgirl - librarian of mystery
I then stumbled on something that was not exactly not for me but I thought still rather noteworthy. RDF ticker is a news ticker for windows machines that always stays on top. I like my Sage for Firefox, I like my e-zines but care not to be as current as this proggie will make me. I included it here for those of you who might wish to be so.
Enough for today, I will blog more about blogging in the future.
Yours in CyberSpace,
Lumpy
