Keith Goodrum

I was reading Manuel Viloria’s blog and he wrote a quick post saying the Blog Rush has shut down.

Wow… So I clicked over & sure enough there is this announcement…

After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.

When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.

I never did get around to adding Blog Rush’s widget here, but was considering back in May. I did have their widget on one of my other blogs, and did see traffic from it. I’m impressed John Reese was so upfront about the problems, and issues they faced trying to get Blog Rush to work. It’s a shame it didn’t survive.

Hats off to John Reese for “going for it” and seeing if a crazy idea would work.