There was a big deal last year when Blog Aggregator BlogBurst announced a service to stream bloggers post to Mainstream Media Outlets.  But nothing seemed to have happened.  I must have looked 20 times over the last 8 months to see if any of my numerous posts, many the right kind of content for BlogBurst, ever ran - and always, I saw a blank screen - until today.

But look at the story that ran!  The iPhone!  And most of the content for that post was from ReadWriteWeb and, I think, The Wireless Report (which is now defunct due to AOL pulling the plug … why? I haven't got the slightest idea since WR was a pretty good blog and well read)

It's also pretty clear the kind of content BlogBurst likes - since I can see the top 100 blogs from their "Leaderboard" which includes

Anyway …. I bet some textual analysis could be run on all of the 100 blogs to see what they have in common - but I won't bother …. I'm not that interested.

Here's the actual results - 3 bloody clickthroughs on … impressions

So…..the headline ran 110,000 times and my syndicated post on the iPhone was looked at about 160 times on January 10th and 11th, and only 3 times did someone actually click through to my actual site, webmetricsguru.com

And I ran with a story that everyone was interested in at that moment - The IPhone!

Looking at my traffic over the last month - you'd not see any significance from BlogBurst (only 3 visits would have shown up - are hardly visible here).

I think BlogBurst needs to be more aggressive in pushing out content - it seems to me that they're totally missing the long tail. 

I think I've said enough about BlogBurst today.