Comments on: Justification? I Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Justification!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:24:08 +0000

On the other hand, sometimes unwanted comments ruin blogging
One of my “anonymous colleagues” basically harassed me (dozens of comments a day for a week) last summer over not explaining in detail my exit from academia, and he/she likes to return every week or so to give me shit for not liking Carbondale, a town which basically sucks [and hard] next to Baltimore, LOL.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:41:50 +0000

Danielle: Oh jeez, that was only four days ago! I don’t recall the last couple days being so stressful, but I find it sad that I couldn’t remember that.

By: danielle

danielle — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:39:03 +0000

Here re: the movie John Q.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:20:12 +0000

Danielle: Having recently discovered Blogtimore, I’ve started reading a lot of new (for me) blogs. I comment a lot but don’t expect people to return the favor; not comment whoring unless you’re inviting/expecting a response, I think. Socially conscious movies? Forgive me, but where was that?

By: danielle

danielle — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 04:56:35 +0000

Hi Alex. I guess I’m delurking now, although I wasn’t really lurking, b/c I didn’t know of your blog until you recently commented on mine (thanks btw. Is that comment whoring? I appreciated your take on socially conscious movies.)

I check in with statcounter occasionally, but I think the same handful of people read and comment on my blog. I happen to use Google Reader.

The only thing that I did, which increased my comments, was post on what an unfaithful bastard my ex was, but I wouldn’t recommend that to everyone.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:01:01 +0000

Claude: I’ve had a few people mention that WebSense blocks my blog. I wonder if they block iGoogle. A know of several folks that read the full text there. Not that it helps the commenting situation.

By: Claude

Claude — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:56:30 +0000

For what it’s worth, I guess I’m considered a non-commenting lurker because I usually read your blog through Blogtimore, which isn’t firewalled out at work.

In addition to the stuff that Typepad offers, I use Sitemeter to see where people are coming from.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:33:13 +0000

DJ: Most aggregators are good about reducing traffic to the server by only requesting once in a while, but the better ones include a subscriber count as part of the User Agent string. This allows a good sense of how many subscribers; not exactly, but close is better than nothing.

GET /index.rdf HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Bloglines/3.1 (http://www.bloglines.com; 5 subscribers)"

GET /index.rdf HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "Feedfetcher-Google; (+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 23 subscribers; feed-id=1234567890)"

GET /index.rdf HTTP/1.1" 200 28022 "-" "NewsGatorOnline/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; 10 subscribers)"

GET /index.rdf HTTP/1.1" 200 22907 "-" "LiveJournal.com (webmaster@livejournal.com; for http://syndicated.livejournal.com/technology_msg/ ; 5 readers)”

Granted, these subscribers aren’t included in my counts from FeedBurner since they’re hitting me directly (versus hitting FeedBurner’s version of my feed)… but the technology is the same.

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:08:03 +0000

In regards to the RSS, the web based readers (Google Reader, FeedRinse, etc.) only hit the feeds a certain amount of times regardless of how many users are subscribed to the feeds (based upon my knowledge of their implementation so far).

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:33:50 +0000

ACW: I get a good — if not close-to-complete — idea of RSS readers from FeedBurner. It is harder to correlate RSS-based commenters from RSS-based lurkers, although now that Google has acquired FeedBurner I would hope that it would be integrated into Google Analytics.

By: anonymouscoworker

anonymouscoworker — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:37:21 +0000

And some of us just read by RSS.