Bye Bye My Blog Log and Thanks For the Heads Up Shoemoney

Despite the many exploits and the small addition to server load time, I was willing to keep the My Blog Log widget on my page simply because it formed a bit of a community around the blog where other readers could meet other readers, and made it easy for me to put a face next to what would normally be letters and numbers in a log file.

But My Blog Log went and pissed off the wrong guy – Shoemoney – and now their reputation is going down the drain with the Boycott My Blog Log Train. Hey, that’s a rather catchy rhyme.

Update: Bootlick over at the Digg page for Shoemoney’s post had a good point:

I’m not 100% sure (most of this script stuff was over my head) but on my MyBlogLog Pro stats page it logs all of my ad clicks and displays it for me. Maybe this is why they are collecting Adsense and YPN click stats?
http://www.netbusinessblog.com/pics/mybloglog_ads.gif

So there may be a reason for your click data to be sent to My Blog Log, but I am still convinced that they (as in Yahoo) are collecting too much data. Then again, that’s probably nothing compared to the kind of data being collected by Google, and I’m not banning the Sitemaps program yet. *feeling a little hypocritical*

So here is the train as it stands:
Shoemoney > Marketing Pilgrim > Wolf Howl > First Page Fitness > You?

I may have missed a few stops in between, but hey I can’t read every blog in the universe.

WHY BOYCOTT MY BLOG LOG?
Read this post and you’ll see. I don’t care if you have Adsense or YPN ads on your site or now, that’s some pretty underhanded spyware Yahoo has installed on all of these blogs now.