Tell me that this is “planned” and that not everyone gets this banner as an option when they finish the Blog Survey at MIT? Tell me that the ONLY reason I have it is that the program they use to check out the site picks up certain keywords (such as your name) when it does it’s business, and then makes up a banner in your honor? Tell me that others get their own name as a banner option when they do the survey? I mean that would make perfect sense, yeah? If you check the code out it actually says “http://blogsurvey.media.mit.edu/images/survey-cameron.gif“.

And if not – who the hell IS Cameron and why does he, or she, need to be freed?

Of course I’m probably going to have to do some Googling to find out some more information myself, but I’m just curious? Is there a Cameron of some significance at MIT or is it just the result of some code crunching, banner creating, bot like type program that likes to bamboozle people into thinking that there’s something more than meets the eye out there? Hey, it worked for me so why not? Or am I just gullible? Is it some kind of techno wizardry reaching out to me or am I just clutching at straws? Is there intelligent life out there somewhere, or have I just lost the plot?

Someone PLEASE tell me!!!!!

Of course if anyone actually wants to do the survey at MIT just click on the banner. It doesn’t take long to do and, who knows, at the end of it you may be asking these VERY SAME QUESTIONS yourself? You may also end up hating me for setting you off on this task. Sorry about that!

On other Internetty/Bloggy type matters, the folks at Blog Explosion have re-vamped their Battle Of The Blogs game – and I have to say it’s A LOT better now! The progress of the voting is not revealed until after the battle has finished so there’s not so much of the “Oh, So-and-So is winning. I’m gonna vote for the other guy!” type voting. Another HUGE improvement is that voters will ONLY get points awarded to them if the blog they vote for ACTUALLY WINS. This means that they are more likely to vote for who they think is the best blog – or else there’s not much point in voting at all. Of course there would still be some RAT BASTARDS who just want to stir things up (for whatever half-assed reason), but most people will actually have to give SOME THOUGHT to their votes! By far THIS improvement is THE BEST thing to happen to BotB thus far!

I’ve noticed that the improvements have already had a positive impact on some of the blogs who have been competing (I’d have to say most of the BETTER blogs if the truth be known). Instead of an insipid 50-50 win/loss ratio – in an attempt for many voters to “even up” the playing field – many blogs that DESERVE to win for one reason or another usually DO win nowadays! Yippee!! Order has been restored to the universe somewhat! As a result of this the average percentage for the 50th ranked blog has risen about 3-4% – though time will tell if the increase of percentage is real or whether it’s just a blip in the scheme of things? Another bonus – actually this one had been occurring for a couple of weeks or so now – is that many people’s blogs have actually got MUCH BETTER, either in content or design. That can only be a good thing for both them, and for the Blogosphere as a whole.

Will it be enough to coax me back into playing BotB? Well, not just yet. At the moment I’m in the number one position at around 90% and I don’t think there’s any point in mucking about with that in the short term. Not unless I start slipping down places at least. Then again if I feel that I’m losing my place to better blogs than mine then I won’t mind that one little bit!

Ohhh yeah, and Tom Cruise is a sissy mommy’s boy!

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