Comments on: Every day http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SpiderMonkey http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13692 SpiderMonkey Sat, 08 Jul 2006 12:49:12 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13692 It's about time that some of these crusty "rules" got aired and then binned. If people are subscribed to a feed, it strikes me that there is absolutely no need to even write semi-regularly. When you write an article, they will get to read it. Do people clean their feedlist of sites that haven't updated in a while, and if so, why? The only answer I can really guess at is some kind of techie-instinct to keep things clean and tidy. If people are subscribing and you are pushing an article down their throats every day, that doesn't really scale beyond them having a handful of sites on their feed. I don't think many people can absorb that much per day, and this is borne out by the number of bloggers admitting how little they actually read themselves. Either you are going to get dropped from their feed, or they won't read your posts most of the time, or they will scan read them. If they are scanning them, then either you waste your time writing so many, or you end up writing for scan-reading rather than proper reading (e.g. Top 10s, HowTos, and all that other crap you see on blogs) - which isn't really quality writing. So yeah, I don't really have a point, other than saying how glad I am that everyone might all calm down and go for quality over quantity. It’s about time that some of these crusty “rules” got aired and then binned.

If people are subscribed to a feed, it strikes me that there is absolutely no need to even write semi-regularly. When you write an article, they will get to read it. Do people clean their feedlist of sites that haven’t updated in a while, and if so, why? The only answer I can really guess at is some kind of techie-instinct to keep things clean and tidy.

If people are subscribing and you are pushing an article down their throats every day, that doesn’t really scale beyond them having a handful of sites on their feed. I don’t think many people can absorb that much per day, and this is borne out by the number of bloggers admitting how little they actually read themselves.

Either you are going to get dropped from their feed, or they won’t read your posts most of the time, or they will scan read them. If they are scanning them, then either you waste your time writing so many, or you end up writing for scan-reading rather than proper reading (e.g. Top 10s, HowTos, and all that other crap you see on blogs) – which isn’t really quality writing.

So yeah, I don’t really have a point, other than saying how glad I am that everyone might all calm down and go for quality over quantity.

]]> By: MatGB http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13668 MatGB Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:17:04 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13668 It was in the template for all of 2 days last time I added it, I accidentally reverted to the wrong template last time I fiddled with it, now back. It is rather good, if slightly too small for the lack of StP to show. It was in the template for all of 2 days last time I added it, I accidentally reverted to the wrong template last time I fiddled with it, now back. It is rather good, if slightly too small for the lack of StP to show.

]]> By: doctorvee » Claiming my identity http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13666 doctorvee » Claiming my identity Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:36 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13666 [...] Plus, being open about your identity isn’t necessarily a disadvantage. I’m returning here to a point I made in a recent post about the strange advice sometimes given to bloggers. MatGB pointed out that a lot of this advice is geared towards pro bloggers. [...] [...] Plus, being open about your identity isn’t necessarily a disadvantage. I’m returning here to a point I made in a recent post about the strange advice sometimes given to bloggers. MatGB pointed out that a lot of this advice is geared towards pro bloggers. [...]

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13646 doctorvee Thu, 06 Jul 2006 00:21:45 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13646 Mat, while we're at it, I like your new favicon! Mat, while we’re at it, I like your new favicon!

]]> By: MatGB http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13641 MatGB Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:27:31 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13641 Ah, on the blogroll, I use mine a lot. I'm not adding that many feeds, and even the sites I have feeds for I check via the roll regularly. One is that it's convenient (my first site was effectively a bookmarks site, I didn't have my own PC) and usable anywhere, second is, well google-fu. I need to trim mine down (a lot), but I'm holding off until after peak weeks at work and then I can launcht he new site. Front page links count for more pagerank than anything. I ought to switch mine around, so the post and archive pages get all of them, the front page the highlights, but, well, can't be bothered. Besides which, incoming hits are something I pay attention to, and I'm pretty sure others do as well. And an organised blogroll is good for other surfers (I get 3-4 hits per day minimum from Bloggerheads blogroll at the moment, but his is really small). Ah, on the blogroll, I use mine a lot. I’m not adding that many feeds, and even the sites I have feeds for I check via the roll regularly. One is that it’s convenient (my first site was effectively a bookmarks site, I didn’t have my own PC) and usable anywhere, second is, well google-fu.

I need to trim mine down (a lot), but I’m holding off until after peak weeks at work and then I can launcht he new site. Front page links count for more pagerank than anything. I ought to switch mine around, so the post and archive pages get all of them, the front page the highlights, but, well, can’t be bothered.

Besides which, incoming hits are something I pay attention to, and I’m pretty sure others do as well. And an organised blogroll is good for other surfers (I get 3-4 hits per day minimum from Bloggerheads blogroll at the moment, but his is really small).

]]> By: Rob http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13634 Rob Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:59:50 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13634 My level of posting tends to vary month to month - but very much agree that it's in your activity on other sites that decides your own site traffic. I was having a chat to Kerron Cross along these lines yesterday and I noted how I used to write massive treatises on Iraq/all women shortlists/political issue of the day but have now sunk to the level of giggling slyly whenever civil servants at the Rural Payments Agency jump around naked. My level of posting tends to vary month to month – but very much agree that it’s in your activity on other sites that decides your own site traffic. I was having a chat to Kerron Cross along these lines yesterday and I noted how I used to write massive treatises on Iraq/all women shortlists/political issue of the day but have now sunk to the level of giggling slyly whenever civil servants at the Rural Payments Agency jump around naked.

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13626 doctorvee Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:55:04 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13626 It's true about the blogroll. I just don't understand what use people can gain from them. I know it is supposed to be good manners to link to bloggers that you read often and all that, but blogrolls are just so ridiculously huge that they cannot be of any practical use. They just clutter up the screen, which is why I sent my blogroll to its own page, hidden away. It’s true about the blogroll. I just don’t understand what use people can gain from them. I know it is supposed to be good manners to link to bloggers that you read often and all that, but blogrolls are just so ridiculously huge that they cannot be of any practical use. They just clutter up the screen, which is why I sent my blogroll to its own page, hidden away.

]]> By: MatGB http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/comment-page-1/#comment-13625 MatGB Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:45:24 +0000 http://doctorvee.co.uk/2006/07/04/every-day/#comment-13625 It depends on perspective on the "daily" thing. Thee and me do it as a hobby. In the US, people are trying to make money out of it, they view it as another attempt at a "revenue stream". Thus they read the advice for "pro" bloggers, which neither of us is. <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/weblogs.html">Nielsen said keep to a schedule</a> (pt 7), and there's a point there in a way. The pt 6 in yours, above, is true. But I like a mix of substantive posts and link/discuss things, and the latter are easy to do quickly. However, not everyone is into "web 2.0" (yet). Nosemonkey, as a specific, still hasn't got a clue how feeds work, and I know a fair few other regular readers of mine come from regularly clicking links elsewhere; I suspect these are the bloggers that run those blogs but, obviously, have no proof. Besides, I come back when I've commented somewhere recently to see if the conversation is developing further,, I'm trying co.mments, but, well, not actually gone to see them, yet... The community aspect is important. I started because I was commenting regularly in a few places, as soon as I set up NLE, I got links in from a few fairly wel trafficed blogs, which was cool. I find most of my new blogs by clicking commenter profiles, not following blogroll links. If you're not out there commenting, no one finds you. Unless they run a citation search on a news story you've linked to (which is great for picking up political LJs) . Meh. Post more y'bastard. It depends on perspective on the “daily” thing. Thee and me do it as a hobby. In the US, people are trying to make money out of it, they view it as another attempt at a “revenue stream”. Thus they read the advice for “pro” bloggers, which neither of us is.

Nielsen said keep to a schedule (pt 7), and there’s a point there in a way.

The pt 6 in yours, above, is true. But I like a mix of substantive posts and link/discuss things, and the latter are easy to do quickly. However, not everyone is into “web 2.0″ (yet). Nosemonkey, as a specific, still hasn’t got a clue how feeds work, and I know a fair few other regular readers of mine come from regularly clicking links elsewhere; I suspect these are the bloggers that run those blogs but, obviously, have no proof.

Besides, I come back when I’ve commented somewhere recently to see if the conversation is developing further,, I’m trying co.mments, but, well, not actually gone to see them, yet…

The community aspect is important. I started because I was commenting regularly in a few places, as soon as I set up NLE, I got links in from a few fairly wel trafficed blogs, which was cool. I find most of my new blogs by clicking commenter profiles, not following blogroll links. If you’re not out there commenting, no one finds you. Unless they run a citation search on a news story you’ve linked to (which is great for picking up political LJs) .

Meh. Post more y’bastard.

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