11 Apr 09 RSS Feeds Are Getting Blitzed!
I don’t get huge traffic here. However, like many bloggers, I’d like to grow it. Whilst I realize that content is king, and traffic growth doesn’t happen overnight, I’m very much feeling that Feedburner’s somewhat erratic performance isn’t helping to acheive my aims here.
So, after some careful consideration, and research, I’m switching over to FeedBlitz.
They appear to offer more services, and from what I gather from other users, better reliability.
So, to that end, I’ve shut off the links here to Feedburner.
If all goes well I shall be doing this on all the blogs I maintain and administer over the next couple of months.
If you’re reading this via the feed, you’ll still get this for the next 30 days. In about 15 days, you’ll get a reminder that the feed is closing, and the easiest way to change to the new FeedBlitz feed is to simply unsubscribe from the current feed in your reader, and resubscribe with the RSS link in your browser address window, or the little RSS FEED icon, on the left hand side.
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a line, a tweet, a comment on friendfeed, or a comment on this post.
Tags: aims, bloggers, blogs, browser address window, careful consideration, feedblitz, feedburner, growth doesn, left hand side, reliability, reminder, traffic growth
10 Aug 08 Social Media – Twitter
I guess when you use many online services, and when many people in your online circle do too, you tend to be a little surprised when you find those that have never heard of it.
One example of this is Twitter.
I use Twitter daily, multiple times daily. What do I use it for? I keep in touch with the wide world with world news from the BBC; I get hurricane alert news; Cricket scores, and local weather. I also keep track of some of the local bloggers and them of me, as we tweet snippets during the day.
I also use it to keep in touch with my wife when we in different places, as it’s easy to use via SMS on a cellphone. It’s the brevity that’s good too. Not a huge amount of options – just 140 characters of text (which can be a URL) and away you go.
Perhaps it sounds a pointless little app. What’s wrong with a phone call, or just a text message. Well, nothing perhaps, but that forced brevity is good compared to a phone call that is meant to be short, but goes on for a half hour or more; twittering is easier if you’re at a PC, than finding the cellphone and using the keypad, even if you’ve got a latest generation smartphone.
I would suggest you try it out if you haven’t. You might find it’s more useful than you imagined.
Tags: alert news, bbc, bloggers, brevity, cellphone, cricket scores, different places, half hour, hurricane, local weather, multiple times, phone call, sms, snippets, text message
17 Mar 08 What Bloggers Read
A report from ZD Net states that heavy bloggers read other blogs more than they read any other type of site. Well, is this true? I do a fair bit of blogging, but I’m probably not a heavy blogger – well I’m not a professional blogger (although I’d love to get paid to blog all day!)
Anyway, looking at my online reading choices – I do have a number of other blogs in my feed reader, but I also like to read news sites, and productivity sites as well. I think it’s important, as a blogger, to read other content around you, as otherwise you can become very insular, and your outlook on the world can become somewhat stunted, blinkered, and narrow-minded.
Tags: blogger, bloggers, blogging, choices, feed reader, google reader, love, news sites, productivity, the eye
