I think they used the standard dotcom era practice of spaghetti project management, throw it on the wall and see what sticks.

What I’m surprised about is that they didn’t respond quickly and improved the widget itself. If you plan something big like that, I guess you also have to plan to make any necessary changes and improvements.

They made several critical mistakes that all go back to poor judgment. Too bad really but they dug their own grave with mistake piled on top of mistake.

I see that there are many others in the same line of thought that I had about BlogRush. It’s a shame, too, because I still think it was a really good idea. Just poor execution, I guess.

You’re correct. I think they had a good idea that they screwed up in several ways, most notably screwing over small and mid-sized bloggers in favor of the big boys and spammers, the same old story.

Also, criticizing them has brought more traffic than their widget ever did.

That was my view as well on the blog I had it on for a few weeks, that it wasn’t as good at bringing traffic as other widgets.

Interesting because you have to go through several steps to read someone’s blog using MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog rather than a single click. People just don’t like to click the BlogRush widget. I’d guess that’s because there’s still better than a 50/50 chance there’s spam at the other end, even post purge.

I have comments with any links put in moderation to prevent comment spam so sorry about the delay in showing yours.

You’re probably on their ‘bad’ list now and set to be purged for being ‘low quality’ next time around.

Anyway, like I told you in my previous post, I’ll update you on my BlogRush saga. I made a post just half an hour ago about how I discovered that BlogRush censored my post (accidental or intentional, I have no clue).

If you get the chance, visit my blogrush post here.

-Saedel

PS. Thanks, I saw my link in this post already.