MyBlogLog – Community for Your Blog
Last night, I was surfing around, making the usual rounds to keep up with what’s going on. I have noticed on other sites (and never thought much of it) this table of mug shots from a service called MyBlogLog. So, finally, I went ahead and checked it out. Very cool! Essentially, it is a community service where you sign up, get a profile, then as you surf around other blogs who are signed up with the service, you show up as a person who recently visited that blog. You’re in their blog log, so to speak. When I signed up for a profile, I set up WebbyOnline as one of my blog sites. I set up an avatar for myself and snapped a screenshot of this site for upload. This morning, I installed one of their “widgets” to the sidebar which will list out MyBlogLog members which visit WebbyOnline.
Its basically another networking opportunity, and one geared specifically to bloggers.
What is a bit intriguing to me is exactly how the hell they are tracking me. For example, I head on over to ProBlogger because I know they are using MyBlogLog. Sure enough, my mug shot appears in the widget on the left side. Now, I am not bothered by this because I signed up for it, but how exactly are they tracking my web surfing like that? I can only assume they are using a tracking cookie. I checked out my cookies list in Firefox and I do see cookies for “.mybloglog.com”. That period in front of the domain is for a sub-domain. My guess is that their widget/tracking javascript (the code I put into my website) is programmed to detect that cookie and it knows who I am.
You definitely wouldn’t want to sign up with MyBlogLog if you are a privacy freak. That said, most bloggers are not worried about protecting their identity otherwise they wouldn’t be blogging. 
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I'm David Risley. I've been making my living as a blogger for over a decade. Blogging is my business and how I support my family. With this blog, I'm just gettin' REAL and telling you how this business works. 
