Piffle.  Somehow the idea of earning Blog Credits doesn’t appeal to me.  I’ll take my 250-300 hits a week.  After all, they’re the most important 250-300 readers in the blogosphere. 

Yes they are, aren’t they? Creme da la creme who show exceedingly fine discernment. That sounds kind of blue-statish, doesn’t it?

I loved discovering to new blogs. Some I blogrolled, some I didn’t. But as BlogExplosion became more popular, many sites that have NOTHING to do with a daily journal (as far as I am concerned) starting popping up. Then I started the bleary-eyed-surfing-while-whatching-tv routine in order to earn credits that allowed other bleary-eyed-surfing-while-watching-tv bloggers to flip by my site in order to earn credits so that other . . . . oh. dear.  I’ll just go back to my old way of finding people to read.
Hey. That’s how I found you!

It seems that there has been some politicizing of BlogExplosion recently, which probably isn’t too surprising in a highly competitive atmosphere. So I think it has gotten some bad press lately.

But yes, Tamara, there are tons of blogs there that I would never have otherwise found. And undoubtedly even more yet to find. I’m enjoying that.

As a rule, I like these sorts of collections, but I think BlogExplosion participants’ cutthroat attitude is what has taken the fun out of it for some members.

But, I’m really glad you found my blog.

My ‘sitemeter’ says I have an average of 41 visits per day to my blog.  My entire domain, for the past year, has only averaged about 250 visits per day. 
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
I guess if I want my new money making schemes, (like my avant garde photography & styrofoam cup religious icon art), to work, it is.  haha.  ;)
Otherwise, I’ve never worried too much about it.
And I don’t care how many hits you get on your site, it doesn’t mean everybody’s actually reading what you wrote.  And just because you get someone to visit your site once, doesn’t mean they’re going to bookmark it.
The Blogexplosion system itself doesn’t seem much different than other blog directories, aside from a little more tracking of who’s visiting who, right from within the Blogexplosions site, (rather than by people’s personal referral stats).
The major “social” difference Blogexplosion has is that they openly advertise that it’s all about driving up hit counts.  I bet the stigma of that is going to alienate a lot of blogs with a lot of really good content, thereby creating a flaw.
And believe me, if there’s a stigma about posting content to pander to an audience to bring in hits, there’s definitely a stigma about vying for plain ol’ hits.
I will defend the notion that there are a lot of relatively unknown blogs with very interesting content that would appeal to a lot more people than know about it.  And for that reason, I think blog directories can be useful.  (Though not necessarily any more useful than clicking on links to blogs on the blogs you’ve already found or using a search engine.)
However, Blogexplosions seems to be pushing an idea that sounds a bit like - build whatever and they will come (and stay).  And I think we all know, if we read any blogs at all, that people generally do not read blogs that don’t interest them.  I’ve seen dozens of blogs with no real content at all, just links, or whatever.  And even if very popular bloggers, with a gazillion hits a day, linked to these blogs, these blogs would not attract a following - they’d likely have a couple of days of huge hits, and then nothing… and the popular blogger would probably drop down a notch in popularity, just for posting a link to such a blog.
So…
You can either pander to hits with content for the masses, and thereby play second-fiddle to a lot of popular blogs that already do that, and hope to catch the readers who find their previously favourite blogs have become too vast to focus their interest.  (For example, I used to skim through BoingBoing posts on a regular basis in the past, like maybe a few years ago.  Now, I never read that blog on purpose, because there’s just too many posts not of interest to me to get to the ones that would be.  I only wind up there if some other blog I read has linked to it for some reason.  And I suspect I’m not alone in dropping out as a regular visitor, to that blog, or who knows what other ones the same has happened with.)
Or you can write what you want, in terms of content, and respect yourself and be respected by the few others who’ve happened to find you, and maybe or maybe not become a popular blog, depending on how wide an audience your content naturally could attract.
Being listed in blog directories may or may not speed up the process a tad.  But I think it’s akin to false advertising to paint images of a vast explosion of hits and regular readers after signing up with Blogexplosion.
As for me personally, I have no interest in wasting any bandwidth by driving more empty hits to my site.  I decided over 2 years ago that Google was pretty illogical in their listing of me… Peter Kaminski: The Web (hearts) Chloe...  I’m not doing myself, or anyone else, any good by trying to pump up my hits aimlessly.
And frankly, I think bloggers do more for blog directories than blog directories do for blogs.
Yeah, in short (too late)...  Piffle!

Remember my post about my web surfing marathon? That’s were I was LOL! I never go there unless I have many hours to waste!