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pretty slick in most regards. I certainly like the tracking that it provides for any websites you
submit, and I enjoy having the ability to have multiple blogs or networks (although I’m only
listing a few) centralized in one location for people to quickly and easily reference. The
statistics are great in terms of your blog’s traffic and I’m particularly fond of the neat
picture/avatar that it shows in the widgets that it makes available to all of it’s users –
well… I thought I was.
You see, this morning I was riding in to work on the train and
surfing through a few of my MyBlogLog community sites
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surprise I somehow landed (twice) on blogs that were of a very adult nature – so much so that I
think I nearly pulled a muscle trying to hit the ‘back’ button using the laptop’s touchpad
while simultaneously hunching my entire body over the screen in a weak attempt to shield the other
only 1/2 awake commuters from the pictures that are now burned into my brain. It must have looked
just slightly comical as I was poised in the [[The Karate Kid]] Crane position as my internet
connection stalled while trying to reload the previous page… for what seemed like
eternity.
Once I was finally returned safely to the last ‘G’ rated blog I was reading
(and the strange man with a snow hat on stopped smiling at me) I started to wonder about the
likelihood of those ‘adult’ sites using one of those fancy widgets that proudly display a list
of the last visitors. I weighed my curiosity against the odds that anyone might spot me surfing
porn on the train and I gave it a shot.
Crouched into the corner of the seat and with the
laptop pulled up against me I used the browser navigation buttons to take me back to the site in
question – and there I was, in the widget, proudly displayed for all to see as a “Recent Visitor”
Oh the humanity!!
How can I get that off? What if a co-worker is surfing porn in the next
office and sees me on there? What if my Mom finds my picture there? And… does this make me some
sort of ‘once removed’ porn star?
Well I’m hoping that it goes away soon – I’ve checked
back on that site 10 times in the last hour and while everyone else’s avatars seem to be replaced
by someone else’s, I’m left as the top listing. I think they’ve got it out for me.
