Wednesday 23 July 2008

Blog in isolation

reader fragmentation

I suspect I have different audiences reading my blog, Tumblr, Friendfeed, Jaiku, GR Shared Items. I call this 'reader fragmentation' but haven't applied for copyright yet. Should I ?

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June 9, 2008 | Filed under | Comments (View)

new look for monthly archives

There is a new, improved Monthly Archives plugin available for Habari which is now installed on this blog. I realise that I'm probably the only person to ever scan the historical archives but I really like it so, once again, many thanks to Chris Meller and the Habari community.
May 1, 2008 | Filed under and | Comments (View)

Unified Blogging Day

Many disgruntled readers have contacted me via email, IM, facsimilie, phone and anonymous posion pen letters to ask 'Hey Norman - whatever happened to the unified blogging day scheduled for Friday 18 April ?'

Apologies for the delay but before we get started, some random, meaningless statistics:

  • Feedburner: 66 subscribers.
  • Google Reader : 'From your 189 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,807 items, starred 1 items, shared 325 items'.
  • Twitter: Following 19. Followers 55. Updates 1,292 in 87 days.
  • FriendFeed: Subscribed to 35. Subscribed to me: 30. Comments: 180 this week, 504 all time. Likes: ...

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April 20, 2008 | Filed under | Comments (View)

the thorny issue of blog comment ownership

A couple of Oracle bloggers (Laurent and Yas) are experimenting with Disqus on their blogs but Tim Hall has expressed some reservations about commiting his blog comments to a hosted service outside of his control. Jake Mckee is also taken by Disqus but eloquently expresses similar concerns about 'data ownership and presentation'. I understand (and used to vehemently share) both Tim and Jake's reservations. It does seem perfectly natural to want all your blog content stored in your MySql database on your server. What if Disqus servers are slow and unresponsive or worse, even down ? Your blog ... Read more
April 11, 2008 | Filed under , and | Comments (View)

25 reasons you should use Disqus

  1. Disqus lets you easily track all comments you have left scattered over the blogosphere.
  2. Disqus allows you to adminster comments on multiple blogs from a single dashboard.
  3. Disqus has built-in effective protection against comment spam.
  4. Disqus provides tight integration with Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, MT and Tumblr.
  5. Disqus provides Javascript code for every other CMS.
  6. Disqus supports threaded comments.
  7. Disqus allows you to fix that embarassing typo by editting comments.
  8. Disqus 'eat their own dog food'.
  9. Disqus is free to use.
  10. Disqus is used on over 4,000 blogs.
  11. Disqus lets you subscribe to individual comment threads.
  12. Disqus supports gravatars.
  13. Disqus lets ...
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April 9, 2008 | Filed under , and | Comments (View)
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