I had some fun today programming a bot, or, I like to call it a dog. More accurately a MyBlogLogDogg.

It’s a php program that has the ability to visit my BlogLog home page and grab all the contacts, it then goes and visits all those contacts pretending to be me, it grabs their contacts and goes and visits them and can continue doing this on multiple levels and threads.

Every single person that the dogg visits will have my profile picture on their profile page as a recent visitor. I’ve only tested it for my own profile pages (mine and my work one) as I don’t think it’s really the sort of thing that MyBlogLog would allow.

Could be cool though to set it off running through the MyBlogLog profile pages and distribute my mugshot on all 2000+ members. People always like to click on the face of their latest profile viewer so I think it’s a pretty cool way to get some social hits to here!

I’m not doing too bad, this blog was born on 26 August 2007 and has averaged 50 hits a day so far, that’s before I add a “blog has moved” sign on my old blog and before I add the link to my other sites. I should be able to get it up to 100 a day using this method, especially if I train the dogg to use other sites that use “people who viewed this page” gadgets…

Go fetch boy!

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