Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Now Hear the Word of the Blog

This site is either fairly new or I'm just catching up to it, but I think it may have the potential to do much good. "Word of Blog enables blog owners to spread ideas and influence throughout the blogosphere, promote causes or services that they believe in, recommend products and organizations they like, and create communities of like-minded blog owners, all through blog word of mouth." It's based in New York City, is run by Matt Turck, Imran Ahmed and Stefan Buxton and is currently in beta mode. It offers "badges" (buttons) you can affix to your sidebar or include in your blog content. Of courese, all the badges say "Heard the Word of Blog?" underneath them so WoB gets to advertise itself at the same time. I'm not much for blogvertising, but if WoB allows folks to omit their self-horn-blowing from the badge coding I think this could be very valuable as a community builder.

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