Good bye blogrush - you still suck. The problem is to much of your effort has gone into publicising your widget… your widget is all about BlogRush and not enough about the content…
You had some good ideas in version 2.0, but you failed to suspect that the biggest problem was your ugly widget! Sure it is a great way of advertising BlogRush… but to work it needs to be about the content.
So, idea 9 is a blog affiliate syndication that is all about the content - think a massive webring - with a summary of content based on content… but not just from the blogs… also from the widgets homepage. What the reader wants is a little more information about the posts - blogrush camps it to much to fit in its won advertising space. But the reader should also get to go to a random post… or highly rated posts. And authors should be able to select posts they want to promote.
This will help generate more hits to the blogs… thats what they want.
