There are no details as to how this happened, but it is for certain that this module was the culprit.

Social CMS, like I, are advising you to disable and remove this module until more details can be made available.

For this contest all you have to do is:

1. Stumble this page on StumbleUpon
2. Post a blog post about this contest
3. Subscribe to my RSS feed
4. You must drop a card on this blog
5. Submit your website to our directory

As a bonus, recommend a friend and receive  even more entries.  For each person you refer, you will receive 2 more entries into this contest.

The winner will receive 10000 Entrecard credits.

Depending on the response, we will increase the prizes, if 100people enter we will increase the payout to 10000 credits, 500 credits, 2500 credits.  So start referring today.

Enter today!

If you post a link to yours, please visit someone else on our list and post a comment on theirs.  Lets see if we can’t get a huge number of comments for your blog and increase credits on Entrecard.

Once we have 25+ listed, we will pick one and the owner will receive 1000 Entrecard credits.

BONUS: Submit your Entrecard/SezWho enabled blog below and post a link back to this post anywhere on your blog, and you will receive 100 EC credits

Winner: Our winner is Inhibitor of lagorama.com

Congrats.

We have started a new contest worth 5000 credits here…

Thanks for entering this contest and good luck in our new one.

We encourage betting reviewed by anyone who would like to do so, whether its good or bad.

If you do a review of us, please drop us a line and let us know so we can pass it along to our members.

Design (7/10): the design is definitely not your typical Pligg layout, its a 3 column layout, rounded corners, and a black background.  I am not a fan of black backgrounds as this can make reading hard on the eyes (for me at least).  Also, the site is extremely montized, perhaps over monetized.

There are far too many ads for my preference, I can live with the number of ads, but one thing i cannot live with is the popup ads and the full page ad that covers the content, these are definite turn-offs not only for me but for most people.

The ad in the header either partially hides behind the categories, or in some instances partially covered the categories, looks like an adjustment of the top margin will fix easily.

The ad in the footer is also out of alignment.

The use of inline text ads on this site are also extremely annoying as quite a few of the navigation buttons are turned into ads when you go to click on them:

Another ad that drives a lot of people crazy including me is the ad that appears on the “Live” page, its an auto play video ad, again a no-no for most people.

Content (9/10): there is no shortage of content, all of the content I scanned over related with the niche.

Navigation (7/10): no issues with the navigation either.  I like the “User Menu” being placed in the sidebar.  The use on inline text ads causes ads to appear when mousing over some navigation links.

Errors (7/10): there were no errors that impeded me from this website, aside from the ad errors listed above, the only other errors were the 250+ errors found by W3C which I would work on reducing.

Overall (7.5/10): I think this site has great content and appears to have a good member base, therefore, it could be very successful.  However, the abundance of ads being used and the method in which some appear will definitely turn some people off, me included.

Once the issue with the ads is addressed,  I would be happy to do a follow-up review.

The opinions expressed in this review are strictly that, opinions, they by no means are meant to discourage the owner but to hopefully point out things in a different view in the hopes of making the website that much better.

If you would like your Pligg install reviewed, drop me a comment here…

This module enables the admin to show the latest submission right on his main page.  There is no coding to do, it is all automatic.

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Not only does EntreCard bring traffic to your blogs, but it can result in additional return traffic and members depending on your content.

SezWho is a comment rating system for users to respond to posts and then other members can rate their comments, this is must have plugin for Wordpress.

One can only imagine the power of these two combining.  The traffic and ratings should skyrocket.

Now EntreCard members can earn additional credits by commenting on blogs that have SezWho installed ranging from 1-10.  I think there is a limit on the number of credits you can earn, 150 I believe per day.

To really take advantage of this, you must have SezWho and EntreCard on your blog and actually write quality comments in order to get a better rating.

Time to wait for the traffic and comments.

I relate it to a comment bomb style promotion.

If you haven’t already done so, head over to Blog Engage, register and start posting and hopefully we will be Engaging your next blog post.

But with all that good stuff one cannot overlook the one of the biggest downfalls of this great system, communication.  Communication?  Some of you maybe saying people communicate more now than ever, I say the world of acronyms will be a serious problem in the future.

From Wikipedia:

In the third quarter of 2006, at least 10 billion text messages crossed AT&T’s network, up almost 15 percent from the preceding quarter.

Text messaging has a language all its own, and in the beginning this was a good idea, but now it has become almost like a first language for our youth.  But not only is it hurting the grammar,and writing skills in our youth, now mainstream media is using it to promote their products/services.

AT&T:
idk my bff rose

In a society where our youth are already struggling to keep up in school and getting high enough grades to make it to college, this is just another example of something that is hurting them and now even adults as well.

I wonder how many arguments have been started because someone has misread a text message, because you can’t hear the person saying it, you don’t know what tone is being used.  I bet quite a few.

How often do you text message, do you think it will have a negative impact in the future?  Leave me a comment below.

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