Months ago, after I added a "dofollow" plugin prompted by reading Andy Beard's Ultimate List of DoFollow & Nofollow Plugins - Banish Nofollow From Comments and Trackbacks, Andy recommended that I join the "No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community" at BUMPzee!. I held off on it because I was spreading myself too thin with all the social sites I had already joined. I still didn't join after reading his article, DoFollow | No Nofollow - Highs & Lows.

I read a comment on my blog from Boris at Ecoshopper.net in June and still didn't join BUMPzee at the time. I've heard nothing but good things about BUMPzee.

I don't know what prompted me to do it, but I finally joined a few hours ago. After I joined, I noticed a lot of familiar avatars in the discussion threads. My avatar is nothing to write home about, but at least it's a picture of me. I took it myself, so cut me some slack.

I took all the JavaScript widgets off the sidebar of my blog but I plan to put some of them back on the blog, but at the bottom of the footer this time. That way, misbehaving widgets won't affect the rest of the display. I'm not sure which BUMPzee widget I'll put there yet, but I'll be putting something in later today.