• Title: Mixed Metaphor.net

• URL: http://www.mixedmetaphor.net

• Category: Writing and Literature

• Description: Fictional works by Jenn!

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• Title: BadGal Says
• Tagline: Roots and Truth to a Reggae Beat
• URL: http://thesuss.blogspot.com/
• Category: News and Media
• Description: BadGalSays is the Blog for BadGalsRadio.com. We give you Roots and Truth 24/7. GalBassed Reggae Radio and Daily Diasporic and Music News. We blog daily and podcast weekly; so there’s lots of fresh crispy goodness widely syndicated nightly.
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• Sinigang For the Soul
• Tagline: drift. read. love. shift. crave. move. share. laugh. exhale. live.
• URL: http://mysinigang.com
• Category: Expat
• Description: -a sour soup. a distinct Filipino comfort food for the soul. a blend of ingredients prepared to its sour perfection, exciting the palate, bringing back memories of warm sun, blue waters, and the solace of home.
• Location: United States
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• Title: The Red Stapler Chronicles
• Tagline: Get busy living or get busy dying
• URL: http://redstaplerchronicles.com/red-stapler-day
• Category: Blogging resources
• Description: A personal finance blog about someone who really hates his job and is trying to make money on the internet so he can quit.
• Location: Maple Shade United States
• Drop rank: Consistent, regular dropper

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• Title: Travel on the Tide ~
• URL: http://traveltide.blogspot.com/
• Category: Travel
• Description: Travel on the Tide is written by a retired newspaper publisher who spends several months each year traveling. He tells little known facts about places he has visited as well as travel tips that work.
• Drop rank: Takes dropping Very Very Seriously

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• Title: Septagon Studios Inc News Blog
• Tagline: Imagination.Creativity.Unleashed
• URL: http://news.septagonstudios.com/index.php
• Category: Entertainment
• Description: Septagon Studios Inc. is a publishing company founded in early 2003 by company President and C.E.O Nicola Defina with his two cousins, Philip Defina (Vice President and Art Director) and Domenic Defina (Consultant and Art Direction).
• Location: Toronto Canada
• Drop rank: Deeply committed – Deadly serious. A drop master

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Over the last two weeks, Entrecard dropped some major news to its members primarily changing the way we are going to look at Entrecard moving forward. The move is Entrecard’s launching of a third-party ad network ‘imposed’ across the board that will affect all its members. Consequently, they are also going to offer cash-out service to those wanting to convert their EC credits into real money.

Since its launching in 2007, Entrecard was a virtual currency based network for bloggers. A member earns a credit every time she/he “drops” a card to another member. The process can be repeated 300 times a day making it possible to collect/earn credits to buy an ad space to another member’s site. Thus the exchange of ads and traffic from one blogger to another.

The Bold Move

Entrecard today, wants to add a third party network paid ad to run 50% of the time in the members ad space. This means that when you buy an ad to a specific site, you will now only be ‘buying’ 50% of the ad impressions for the day because the other half will be run by the paid third party network, which by the way- Entrecard gets 100% of the profit.

However, however! Since they make a profit out of its members- they are “sharing” some of it by opening its doors to exchanging credits into cash!

Like any drastic change, such bold move is bound to receive a variety of feedback both positive and negative. For the greater part, Entrecard received some resistance from members who are not willing to just take everything in without a question or two. They received over 200 comments from that announcement from passionate bloggers and since then have made some reasonable and acceptable compromises.

Still, many were not happy and were unwilling so they dropped Entrecard from their sites. Their reasons are valid and we admire them for their stand.

Our two cents

We have thought this long and hard before passing on judgement. We weren’t sure initially we wanted to go with the flow. We are a group of bloggers who were among the first to join Entrecard. We bought this domain over a year ago but hold off putting the site up until we were sure we wanted to support Entrecard by promoting its members here as a gallery of quality Entrecard sites. This site is pretty new and we have not invested much time and money on it (yet!) but with a heavy heart, we were willing to let it go had Entrecard pushed through with their dictatorial plans as is without the changes made such as where to place the ad widget or having to pay to reject an advert.

As we study everything and take it all in- Entrecard is still very much for its members and we see that they are doing their very best to weather the economic storm affecting all of us. Clearly, they need this move to survive in this economic slump. Like any growing business with staff and bills to pay, they need the money to maintain and operate the site- to keep it alive online.

It is not a perfect strategy but a reasonable one. Remember that we start out with nothing in Entrecard- just our time and effort for dropping cards everyday. In turn we get credits. These credits have no monetary value other than grow and use it all up to “buy” ad space to the Entrecard network. What they are giving is a chance for those who want- to exchange their credits into real cash. We think it could really help bloggers who blog to earn more from their sites.

We know there will be other issues that will come up once the ad network goes live. We will reserve critique when the time comes. For now, we are staying with Entrecard and are  keeping this site alive. We have faith in them that they will stay true to its members- the very community that helped them up and the very community that will keep them going…

Postscript

In the coming days, we are going to make some clean up in our gallery. We have featured some bloggers who are no longer with Entrecard because they opted out or they are part of the Today Network that does not allow third party ads on their sites.

We will not delete them. They are featured here because we found something on their sites that are noteworthy so they stay but we will put them in a separate category and will clearly say that they are not part of the Entrecard Network anymore.

Google Search

Our site is growing in traffic, thanks to all who support us! We do appear on Google search and other search engines and that goes to all the links and sites listed on this gallery. The linklove is working.

If your site isn’t listed yet, give us a hoot and we’ll put them in queue. To fast track and highlight your site, you can always tip us!

Good luck to everyone on this new Entrecard venture!

• Title: Personal Finance Management Guide
• Tagline: If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
• URL: http://personal-finance-management.blogspot.com
• Category: Finance and Investing
• Description: Quick and easy strategies for getting control of your money. An all-you-need-to-know introduction to personal finance management and making the most of your hard-earned money.
• Location: Brewster, New York United States
• Drop rank: Takes dropping Very Very Seriously

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• Title: SkipRatt The Mountain Bike Enthusiast
• Tagline: My personal blog.
• URL: http://www.skipratt.com/
• Category: Sports
• Description: Mountain biking is a very expensive hobby for enthusiasts to get into and maintain. Once your in though, you would think nothing about spending a load of cash on the latest products/upgrades or on a brand new bike. I am always looking for relevant link exchanges. Please link to me and send me a message with your site details, and the location of my link on your site so I can link back asap.

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• Title: Mature Not Senile
• Tagline: My Observations About Life And Everything Else
• URL: http://jude8753.com
• Category: Women’s interests
• Description: I learned to ride my scooter so this year I will get a bigger one and a license. My opinions about life and everything else I do blog about here.I have always been broadminded and view almost everything with open interest, but I don’t always understand.
• Location: York United States
• Drop rank: Takes dropping Very Very Seriously

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