I have removed the MyBlogLog widget from the sidebar today and will also delete the account. While it is nice to see who is visiting the blog I think it doesn’t serve the purpose I had hoped for. No new contacts have resulted from it and even the number of visitors coming from MyBlogLog can be neglected.
At first it was a pleasant surprise that many users wanted to be my contacts. I didn’t take a closer look at their blogs; I was even flattered a little bit. However all their blogs were dealing with SEO, marketing and whatnot. Call me naive but it was (and still is) very disappointing, particularly because I think MBL has a lot of potential to be a real community of like-minded bloggers; a place where ideas can be shared, support given, and much more.
Maybe MBL is working that way for someone. Would be grand. Anyway, you won’t see my face on your blog anymore and I won’t see yours here. 
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Carsten — we’re sad to see you go and hope you’ll give us another try in the future. We’re working very hard on solving the spam problem and constantly trying to make the service useful for everyone. Cheers!
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Eric, I will certainly watch how MBL will progress. Never say never.
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Wow, haven’t thought about MBL in quite some time. They really went fast from being on the buzz and being the next big thing to something almost everyone almost has forgotten. I gotta keep my account and wait how this will progress becuase MBL still has potential to go through the roof. Yet I wish they would have done some more stuff on the spammers and all that way earlier. We’ll see.
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