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So, I’ve been a member of Entrecard since they opened their doors. And to be fair, its been a good, if sometimes onesided, relationship so far. The traffic has been decent, the friends and new blogs I’ve visited have sometimes proved valuable and other times not so much. I was intrigued, to say the least, when I heard about the newest endeavor by EC to help boost readers and participation on blogs. I mean, afterall, we’ve all seen how well blogrush helped right?

July 15th saw Entrecard announce a partnership with sezwho. Its simple. You join sezwho and add their dealie to your site and you have the ability to earn more EC credits via posting comments on other blogs. Now, I know you’re thinking “AWESOME!! Finally some payback for being first on problogger all the time” but thats where you’re wrong.

Your comments have to have substance and are subject to the ratings of the masses. If people like your comments, good for you, if not…..

Its an interesting idea, and one that is kind of patterned after digg, blogging zoom and other sites like that, however, this is strictly for comments. The more you leave. The better they are, the more likely you are to benefit from this conglomeration of stuff.

Yes, I’ve added it here, so comment away, you willing commentors, maybe you’ll get a good ranking! Oh and let me know if you’ve added it as well….

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Some of you (ok, the one person other than my mother) who visits the site regularly, may have noticed that it had been rather slow and sluggish to respond. The load times were dismal, the lightbox script for looking at photos didn’t work correctly, and things were just, well, bad.

I’m happy to say thats been corrected (for the most part).

The site is now running wp 2.6 (w00t!), the plugins have been upgraded to the latest and greatest (which fixed the wpg2 problems with lightbox) and I disabled Firestats, which I think were causing most of the problems anyways.

If you notice anything wrong, let me know….. I’d like to fix it.

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