Is there anything cooler for a blogger? MyBlogLog is an awesome utility that features real time stats, an intuitive community interface for gathering contacts and joining blog-groups, messaging for those of you who need yet ANOTHER way to be contacted on the web, and it integrates with Flickr. Sometimes, I ♥ Yahoo!… but only sometimes.

As you may guess, this site is run by Yahoo! and among their gazillion other projects, I do believe this one to be the most useful - then again, I am quite biased, duh.

So, who can use such a thing? Bloggers, of course. I’m not really sure if this applies to anyone else - I mean, there is Twitter integration, which I don’t find useful at all, but other than that? It’s .. well… marketing toward people with a blog. Besides, who doesn’t have a blog these days? (pssst - go get one WordPress).

Another tool that appears to be kick ass for us blogger types is BlogBurst. This is an invitation only site that syndicates others who are part of the community, post content relative to your blog’s posts, and then displays the RSS summary of those posts in a widget you place on your site.

The result? Traffic, traffic, traffic. Writing online is happening for pretty much one reason only… to be read. So, the required element? Readers… Sociosophy is getting there, slowly, but surely - and in due time, we’ll even have a subscriber or two! Hopefully with a little help from BlogBurst, if they accept my request for an invite. </shameless plea>