I loved (the idea of) battle of the blogs but it was pretty much a disaster from go. the same 5 housewives sat in there all day fixing battles and voting for people based on how much they paid for their webdiva template. and while they do look nice, a pretty picture does not a blogger make.
and it got old. damn old.
no one was really having fun anymore and people were actually getting kicked out for reporting cheating and complaining about it.
I honestly couldn't care less about empty blog traffic, but I liked playing the games damnit. all of the other blog traffic services are carbon copies of each other that don't offer anything but surfing and can't even manage to distribute traffic; the ONLY thing they claim to do. 500 credits shouldn't last a month. and theres just no way in hell I'm going to sit here and click to watch the same 10 blogs rotate.
...but I will cage fight :D
theres finally
a place for those of us who liked to pit ourselves against each other without turning everything into a popularity contest.. no more people IM'ing me to vote for them (!!) no more mommy blog domination. and (hopefully) no more WHINING. oh, and get exposure for your blog too :p
plus you can transfer credits to other people, rate blogs on
varb, upload your pics to create custom puzzles and put together puzzles made by other bloggers. theres actually a ton of shit to do at
blogmad. its quality surfing and has made quite the bump in my visitors as well. I'm way impressed. I spent at least 3 hours there today for their trial launch and still didn't see everything!
(..or get any homework done)
its currently 'invite only' but all you gotta do is ask for one. and if you had signed up back in the day when they first started taking members, you're already in.

also I found a whole
community dedicated to hating rachael ray.
thats actually not part of blogmad.
but it should be.
I never realized how important boobs are for women until I saw one who didn't have any.
I hope the effing olympics are about over. oprah at 3 isnt really working out.