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Is anybody building a content focused site as opposed to one purely focusing on a product? I know it is kind of against the 30DC approach but it is something I'm absolutely passionate about and there are affiliate products that fit into the concept. Just wondering if anyone has tried this before.
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Um... I dont know where the idea came from that the 30DC is not focusing on content. It's the backbone of a valuable and well respected site (actually we haven't had an ED rant yet about the peanuts that spam up their blogs with crap rather than quality content).
- Allison
Allison, sorry if I was unclear - I wasn't trying to say that the 30DC isn't about content. My question was if anyone is building a business where CONTENT is the PRODUCT, as opposed to selling an actual product.
- Jen
I have a Parenting site Jen that is a Content site although we do monitize it via an ad Network. Creating a large content site is a massive undertaking that takes months of hard work. Much more of a long term project as opposed to the #30DC module.
- Karen Kramer
Are you talking more about selling information products as opposed to physical products and is that what you mean by a "content focused site"?
- Karen Kramer
Karen, thank you, that's exactly what I meant by "content focused"! Your parenting site sounds similar to what I'm doing, although in a totally different field. I have been working on it for months now and as you said, it is much more long-term than just 30DC which I only used as a starting point. How exactly do you monetize your parenting site? I'm struggling with that - I use several...
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- Jen
Follow the steps. Get a Twitter :)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
You can run ads in the sidebars. As you ad content you can also ad some relevant text ads inside the article itself. (I actually convert sales better this way than in the sidebars)
- Brian McClure
By the way all of the content I don't actually do keyword research on. Just content that I think is relevant to the market.
- Brian McClure
Are you asking about ways to monetize a site selling information products (digital products) - I think there is a WP plugin called wishlist member or something like that, you could make your site membership only, with different levels of membership having access to different levels of content, expert guidance, etc. You could start an exclusive club (on the lines of 'winning the web - winners circle') where there is some exclusive information/data rich content for exclusive access alone.
- TrafficBug
@TrafficBug, I actually meant a site like Karen mentioned above: an actual content site, not one selling information products. I'm not really trying to sell anything but I'm building an authority site on a topic. Like a small Wikipedia for a niche - and I'm trying to monetize that somehow. Actually, I have found some affiliate products that could work and I'm going to try the text ads as Brian suggested.
- Jen
Hey Jen... this is one of those do as I say not as I've done kinda answers but the best way to monetize a large content site is not on the site, it's through a list. Use the site to get people to an email opt-in and then market through the list. I wish I had taken that advice from the beginning. I do have an ad network that brings in some monthly income but you need a lot of traffic to make that model work at least 100,000 uniques a month.
- Karen Kramer
I havent done it before, but you may want to be careful about including un-cloaked affiliate links as part of content, I heard google is able to detect and slap sites that do this, I guess you could have those links clearly labeled as ;'affiliate or sponsored links' but not mixed with the content... I am not sure about this so you may wanna double check
- TrafficBug
I'm late to this conversation but if anyone knows about monetizing content site its me. Try podcasting, you can do a series of podcasts and sell as a package with intro podcast. Same for ebook content. There are other places to look for affiliate links. Go to google do a search for your topic and put affiliate. Hope these comments help. Yup, Karen is right too, a list helps
- Karen Riedl
Thanks so much for all your comments. @TrafficBug, you are right - have dismissed that idea, esp. because it doesn't fit in with my general concept and it looks spammy. Will try marketing through a list instead, as Karen suggested. And now that my first ebook is ready, I hope that I will have some success selling that. Not sure if podcasting would work but I will give it some more thought - have a few ideas I picked up from 30DC Plus too. At least traffic is increasing steadily.
- Jen
21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently - http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins...
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"Multi-Author Blogs are a popular trend that is spreading rapidly in the blogging industry. It is getting hard to keep up with the fresh content for one man bloggers therefore more and more blogs are now seeking for guest authors, co-authors, and multi-authors. This is not only a great way to expand your blog’s content, but it is a great way to attract different type of audiences. While it is a great way to produce fresh content, Managing a Multi-Author blog is no easy task. You have to make sure that the authors post on time, they have the appropriate permissions and control, and so much more. Thankfully WordPress allows us to manage a multi-author blog efficiently with the help of these amazing plugins that we will highlight in this post."
- Oğuz Serdar
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Great share!, I hope somebody does something similar for the MU thing
- TrafficBug
20 Most Commonly Used Plugins on Wordpress Blogs - http://line25.com/article...
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"One of the best things about the Wordpress platform is the extensive list of plugins available to extend and add new functionality to your site. Let’s take a look at the 20 most commonly used plugins on Wordpress blogs across the web, including those that provide additional features, to those that simply alleviate the simple tasks of running a blog."
- Oğuz Serdar
from Bookmarklet
Thanks for the great article.
- Monique Schlosser
Oğuz Serdar to Oğuz's feed, WordPress, Blogging School, The Bloggers Discussions, ProBlogger Room, Ideas & Inspiration
Make Your Wordpress Blog Mobile Compliant in One Step - http://www.kpott.com/make-yo...
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"You may have noticed that this blog now has a mobile version for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You may also have noticed that there is a second mobile format for all other smart phones, too. Thanks to the ease-of-use of Wordpress, you can make your blog mobile compliant in about five minutes and without writing one line of code. Nice!!"
- Oğuz Serdar
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How to Create Compelling Content by Inspiring Action - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
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A Look Into the WordPress Themes’ Options Pages - http://blogsessive.com/bloggin... - Is your theme competitive enough?
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Susan Beebe to Susan's feed, Facebook, Facebook Marketing, Twitter, Twitter, Tweeple, Social Media, Startup Success, Startups
Twitter can start to worry --> Facebook growing 2x as fast even though it is almost 5X as big - http://tcrn.ch/5E8u (via @ erickschonfeld) - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"If it wasn’t bad enough that Facebook bought FriendFeed on Monday and turned on real-time search to better compete against Twitter in the Stream Wars, and is playing around with a lite version that resembles Twitter even more, now Twitter really has something to worry about. Facebook is growing faster than Twitter in the U.S., even though it is more than four times larger. In the month of July, according to the latest estimates from comScore, Facebook attracted 87.7 million unique visitors in the U.S., which was 14 percent higher than in June, 2009. Twitter, in contrast, only saw 21.2 million unique U.S. visitors to its Website, a 6 percent rise compared to the month before. In absolute terms, Facebook added about ten million new visitors in the month of July versus roughly one million new visitors for Twitter. At 87.7 million uniques, Facebook moves from the sixth largest Web media property in the U.S. to the fifth, passing the combined sites of Fox Interactive Media (80.9 million...
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- Susan Beebe
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and I could still delete my Facebook account tomorrow
- George Dearing
from BuddyFeed
just a quick note, to those who want to setup a mailing list on their websites but dont want to pay for aweber, try mailpress a free plugin, I absolutely love it!
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This looks to be very good, does it collect and collate email addresses & subscription requests as well?
- Steve
Please make sure that you check with hosting account the number of mails you can send per day..they got me with that limitation..
- Juan Pablo
yes it does collect it all plus you can send mails out with it directly from wordpress
- Catherine
Thanks for sharing this - sounds useful for clients and people in jobs working from home who just want to test out a system prior to committing to Aweber or an other.
- nudgeme
cysko to cysko's feed, REAL TIME PRODUCERS FEED, Hip-Hop, Hip Hop Distribution, Hip Hop is My Love, Electronic Music, Last.FM
SoundCloud Threatens MySpace as Music Destination for Twitter Era | Epicenter | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
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IS Soundcloud the place to be?
- cysko
from Bookmarklet
I am really having problems with Social Booking and Social Bookmaker.com Ed said that SB is easy now that SB.com was available. Well all last year I found that it was very tiring and fustrating. Some site would not be accessed, some were not suitable for my niche, which I found very difficult to sort out. So any advice on making it easier?
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I too had some problems with SocialMarker (especially with Delicious and Twitter). I switched completely to Shareaholic http://www.shareaholic.com/ and use bookmarklets for the sites that are not supported. If sites are not suitable for your niche then don't use them. Find others that are of more value to you. I also love Su.pr http://su.pr/ It's a nice combination of StumbleUpon and...
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- Michael Netsch
Me too! Shareaholic was fine for my needs.
- Inspired Writing Research
Umm... if you use Shareaholic, you might also want to try 'AddThis'
- Art Y.
@Art - Why AT? just curious :) fwiw, shareaholic supports more services, and won an award from Mozilla. Jay @Shareaholic
- Jay Meattle
Some services between them are different. Get both of them if you need it...
- Art Y.
Art - feel free to ping us with any service addition requests. we're here for you. support@shareaholic.com
- Jay Meattle
Sure
- Art Y.
Update LOL - so glad my fave shareaholic add on's been appreciated in challenge! So pleased with it I even wrote an article on my experiences of it on my blog - bit out of date now whoops with 3.5, but here it is for anyone who's wondering why it's better? Will update I think...http://www.inspiredwritingrese...
- Inspired Writing Research
I use onlywire. It has a nice plug in for wordpress that will automatically post to social networks when you add content. Also has a Firefox add on that works well in the toolbar. I have also recently added Yoono for Firefox. I like the sidebar
- Brian McClure
EXCLUSIVE: New Macbook revealed: http://vimeo.com/5319991 [Video proof]
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nice one Chris, thank you.. need to buy a Mac soon.! I am a PC guy and have never own a MAC, but now I want one.. lets hope my shares go up and I make enough money on them so I can buy one :P
- Qbat
haha
- Qbat
1 pls.
- anna sauce
artistshouse: The Time is Right for Direct-To-Fan Marketing of Music http://ow.ly/fQ2D - http://twitter.com/artists...
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10 Social Media plugins for your WordPress blog - http://tutorialblog.org/10-soci...
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10 Social Media plugins for your WordPress blog
- Mario Olckers
Music industry set to suck even more blood - http://www.inquisitr.com/24913...
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Just as the newspaper industry is facing a collapse of their business model so to is the music industry. While it is the falling advertising spending on traditional print media that is severely hurting newspapers it is also the digital world that is biting into the profits of the music industry and their trade groups. As things like CDs begin to go the way of vinyl and cassette tapes the music industry is desperately struggling to find new ways to increase their profits.
- Buzzsonic
I'm surprised that people think everyone subscribed to their RSS feed actually reads their blog. In Google Reader, I'm subscribed to hundreds of feeds (including a number of bundles), but really only read a couple of them. The same for iGoogle, etc. (re: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
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Do you read all of your feeds?
- Paul Buchheit
I skim them all quickly. The 'j' key is my friend: next, next, next, ...
- Fred Yankowski
I do. If you call reading, browsing "all items"...
- David Schmidt
Same here; I've got about 500 feeds in bloglines, most of them in folders I literally never click on.
- Casey Muller
Hmmm... I wonder if there's a better way to get at those couple of things you read?
- Cliff Gerrish
I think I make it a point to read everything in about 15% of the blogs: otherwise, it's just skimming through the headlines. This is exactly what I do on FriendFeed, so this Feedburner business is fine by me. I'd like to figure out why my projects feed got the FriendFeed bump when my blog feed didn't, though.
- Mark Trapp
I thought the same thing when I saw people complaining about the FF stat change this morning. I read more through FriendFeed than I do RSS subscriptions I have, which are many.
- Keith Bourgoin
I guess people are very optimistic :)
- Paul Buchheit
I have 2 tiers of feeds. Top tier always gets at least headlines read, articles read based on interest level. Bottom tier only gets attention if something stands out, or if I have some extra time.
- LogEx
People should think instead that everyone subscribed to their RSS feed feels bad about all those unread items.
- Johannes
Why would you subscribe to things you don't read?
- Gabe
I've trimmed my feeds down to a number that I can check out each item. Why subscribe to hundreds of feeds if you aren't going to read them? Search?
- Sam Grover
Cliff, it works reasonably well for those couple of feeds I read because I can login every few days and skim the headlines (I don't read the full content of anything). Gabe, I basically subscribe to anything that sounds like it might be interesting, then simply stop reading anything that doesn't keep my attention. Google Reader makes this very easy, and there's really no downside to staying subscribed.
- Paul Buchheit
Gabe: would you consider skimming headlines and reading things that spark your interest from there the same as reading a blog regularly? Most of the blogs I subscribe to have maybe 1 in 10 stories that'll interest me: because of that 1 in 10, I subscribe to them. I wouldn't consider myself reading the blogs, though.
- Mark Trapp
I think that attitude spills over to FF and Twitter as well though - especially a problem with real time FF. At least FF has a mechanism for bringing things to foreground that might be more important.
- Brian Sullivan
The scale of my available time for reading feeds varies over time. The number of feeds I'm subscribed to only increases over time. Occasionally I "start over".
- Jason Wehmhoener
I read the majority
- Shevonne
no not even close
- andy brudtkuhl
I don't read every article of every feed, I don't think anyone does. However from the feedburner reach stat, I see that about 50% of RSS subscribers do fetch the complete article (can't tell whether they actually read it). From referral logs, way less than 1% of people subscribed to me on friendfeed click through to blog postings. Thats a big difference.
- DGentry
That's because the subscriber count metric is useless to begin with. So why pad it now with even more numbers?
- Aviv
I skim the titles to find interesting items. I read < 10% of the items.
- Gary Burd
My intent is to read most everything...like Jason, though, I have to start over at times, and toss out what I'm not actually getting to. (there's also a separate category of utility feeds like Steam game releases, crimewatch info, etc. that's not really the same as real people writing stuff. I skim those pretty much 100%)
- Ken Kennedy
Not even close to all, I have +150 feeds on GReader and follow +120 tumblrs. There's no way to read all this stuff and it not be my job.
- Cornelius Toole
I don't think it's useless Aviv. It's not exact, but a blog with 10,000 subscribers will almost certainly have more actual readers than one with 10. (the proportions are useful)
- Paul Buchheit
Agreed, Paul...you can basically figure out where something is on the power law graph, but not exact rankings.
- Ken Kennedy
Yes, I read everything I subscribe to in Google Reader. I only subscribe to full feeds, I use Expanded view, and I hit "J" scanning each article. If a site doesn't offer a full feed, I don't subscribe. I don't personally consider FriendFeed a feed reader, and won't until and unless it (1) displays full articles (2) gives me the option to mark articles read/unread.
- Ken Sheppardson
There's no cost for the unread, except to the extent it makes reading those one or two items difficult.
- Cliff Gerrish
Lots of people have magazine subscriptions and newspaper subscriptions but never or rarely read them -- and are often just to lazy or unaware to unsubscribe even when it costs money. RSS subscription costs nothing and is easy to subside -- I am guessing many subscribe in good faith thinking they might read, then never or rarely read and just never bother to clean up.
- Brian Sullivan
Paul, that's certainly true, but it's like saying that a site with 10,000 unique visitors must have more visitors than a site with 10 uniques. My point is, should the number of a blogger's FF subscribers count as unique hits in their Google Analytics page?
- Aviv
Brian, right, so if Maxim opens a FriendFeed account and gets 20,000 people to subscribe to their account - should they tell advertisers they just earned 20K new subscribers to the magazine?
- Aviv
Paper publications play all sorts of games with numbers talking about subscribers and readers as different numbers but there are standards. So they can't claim subscribers to the magazine because of the FF subscribers.
- Brian Sullivan
Aviv, there's a difference between what Feedburner stats should show, and what they actually show: there's a case to be made that Feedburner should be as accurate as Nielsen PeopleCounters, and we should all be able to use those numbers to determine things like advertising revenue, but the argument being posited here is that Feedburner was never that accurate (or that they aren't meant to be that accurate), and adding FriendFeed stats doesn't change that for the worse.
- Mark Trapp
Brian: oh, well, I wasn't aware that bloggers don't have standards...
- Aviv
Bloggers don't have standards -- not in the sense that they are agreed upon between publishers and advertisers and auditible.
- Brian Sullivan
I read everything I'm subscribed to or I unsubscribe. That is why I can't use FriendFeed except as another filtered source for my RSS reader (spoonfeedr.com)
- Sam Pullara
I'm sure I'm subscribed to tons and haven't opened up my RSS reader in months.
- Thomas Hawk
I don't think FF stats should be reflected in metrics that measure blog readership - at least not yet (still waiting for the day I can click on a little plus sign and read the blog post inline;). Look, I'm subscribed to you, because I enjoy your activity on FF, but just a moment ago was my first ever visit to your blog.
- Aviv
By the way, how much of an article do I have to read before it counts as "read"? The whole thing? The first paragraph? 50%? Does it depend on how long the article is?
- Ken Sheppardson
Aviv: but the point being made is that even without FriendFeed statistics, Feedburner doesn't accurately show blog readership via the "subscribers" metric anyway. Whatever Feedburner does show doesn't seem to be affected by the addition of FriendFeed subscribers beyond a sudden jump in the number. Taking the Feedburner statistics, without FriendFeed, as being an accurate representation...
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- Mark Trapp
Well, if FF knows that FB's numbers are bogus to begin with and doesn't mind adding some of their own numbers even though they obviously don't represent actual readership or anything close to that, then you're right, no point to even argue. :)
- Aviv
Next thing you know, twitterfeed.com will start reporting to FB and count followers are readers. And why should FB have a problem with this? After all, it's always nice to see the blogosphere growing.. ;)
- Aviv
I do read lot of them. Not daily. But i try to catchup once in a while. I have 150+
- Vivek Puri
I read all my feeds. I don't expect everybody reads mine every day.
- Louis Gray
i think its important to trim subscriptions once a month. we like to think that we can read everything we want to read. Everytime i add an RSS feed i get tickled with excitement that i'll soon be melding that blog our site into my internal matrix and knowledge machine. I think being a self arbiter is really important. Also, seeing so many unread blog geeds can be discouraging...always saying to yourself...oh i should be reading more. when in fat that is not the case. Reading less can very well be more...
- Zachary Adam Cohen
@louisgray cough BS cough ;)
- Zachary Adam Cohen
I skim the titles. It's nice to know though how many are interested in/by your blog even if they don't read each and every post.
- Matt Soreco
Confession time! Yep, I've got tons of "unread" items in my gReader. It's become a wasteland of abandoned feeds. (ok bookmarking service?) LOL ... I live here in FF, Tweetdeck, Techrigy SM2, etc. Don't get me wrong, I dont' ignore my feeds, I found it much easier to just make lists and imaginary friends (feeds) here in Friendfeed - way better client than gReader
- Susan Beebe
No
- Oğuz Serdar
Nope. I have all my feed broken down in lists, though, and only manage to read around 50 of the 200 feeds in there.
- Brandon
I find that I am reading quite a few more feeds since switching to Twitter, and reading them more productively.
- Sean McBride
Interesting -- I've just asked a few friends to send me their OPML files so that I can do a little network analysis. (1) Lots of people tell me that they're using Twitter and serendipity to keep in touch these days, and that they're using their RSS readers less. (2) *everyone* on the list is in danger of info overload if they're REALLY reading that many blogs. Here's an interesting post from 43 folders about avoiding RSS overload - http://bit.ly/1H6Ty
- Mat Morrison
Zachary... I read all my feeds. I never mark all as read.
- Louis Gray
I try to read them all, but if I notice that I'm regularly marking all of the items in a particular feed as read, then that's typically one step north of removal (for me, at least). I keep a pretty tidy feed list, for the most part.
- Brett Kelly
I usually skim all items in my All Items list of Google Reader, just like Robert Scoble showed in a video http://www.viddler.com/explore... a few years ago. If I find something interesting I will read the post right in Reader or if it's to long (and sometimes videos) then I will ctrl-click to open it in a new tab. When I completed skimming the whole list I will read the opened tabs.
- Peter Stuifzand
I scroll through and read headlines quickly. If I see one I like, I'll read the article.
- EricaJoy
Agree w/ EricaJoy. That's the general purpose of RSS, to skim through sites/feeds that you have some interest w/o going to the page unless there is something of interest. RSS Readers are almost personalized, granted mostly not intelligent (yet), Search Engines or enhanced Bookmarks.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I'm subscribed to a lot of feeds too. I always say I'll read them later... later never, ever comes and I end up unsubscribing a year or two later.
- t i n y m
I subscribe to a number of feeds, and read all but two. Those two frequently get the "Mark All As Read" treatment.
- Piaw Na
i don't read all of my feeds - but i do search them for certain topics all the time
- mike "glemak" dunn
I religiously unsubscribe from anything I notice that I'm not actually reading. Keep the clutter to a minimum!
- Murray Barton
If I'm not interested in reading a feed I don't subscribe. Do I read every article in depth....no....read some, skim some, and save some to read on the weekend when all my feeds have less activity, and I have more time.
- Bonnie Foster
Every feed, over time, sure; every single feed item, no.
- Grant Bierman
why subscribe, then? Curious...
- Valeria Maltoni
i switched all my feeds over to friendfeed. i don't even look at google reader anymore
- Tyler Gillies
Blogs are for slow consumption. Friendfeed, Twitter are my quick glance channels. They provide rivers of information I can dive into if I feel like it. I use GReader to subscribe mostly to people that actually take the time to think before they write. No TechCrunch or other networks there. I get slapped around with that on any other channel I'm watching. GReader is my e-book/essay reader. I try to read it all and I enjoy the slow consumption as it makes me smarter ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander, you might... but not everyone else does.. Feedburner numbers are BS anyways.. :)
- Tim Hoeck
Not trying to convince anyone, just explaining what it is I do. GReader for the long and in depth stuff, everything else goes in the firehose
- Alexander van Elsas
No, not all...just a few Favs & Essential/Pro feeds. & ya i use GReader :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
There's also a difference between skimming the headlines and actually "reading" the entire article. Also, rarely do people click through to the blog on Google Reader - on FriendFeed that happens much more, as I'm sure you have stats to prove.
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse, my personal experience with FF makes me sometimes wonder if people did actually read the original item. Often initial comments and discussions seem to start in a different direction then the item that was posted. It seems to happen most often with blog items. Not saying that is bad or anything. But I do wonder.... ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Blogging isn't dead. What is dead is READING. Blogs and sites in general especially Newspapers need to transition to VIDEO. I mean, you'll read things you find compelling, but you're 10x more likely to watch a video of it. There's nothing sacred about text. It was the means of recording of its day, but now video is the recording of its day.
- Stephen Pickering
Paul, is it possible to make the numbers going to Feedburner a choice based on the user? Personally, while I think there are a few quirks, I like the decision and would prefer you not go back.
- Jesse Stay
@Steven, I like video but I rarely watch it. I turn it on as radio in the background ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander, yes, I agree, maybe I should have emphasized SOUND as well. When I listen to Video Podcasts for instance, I usually listen in the background too
- Stephen Pickering
I'm surprised people still think people read.
- Eric Nakagawa
Yes, most of them. The ones that accumulate in the unread pile get unsubscribed to because it's a signal that the information isn't that compelling or useful. I unsubscribed to many high-volume blogs because I *will* see them via FriendFeed. So the feeds I *do* have in RSS are fairly well groomed and read - I'll certainly get around to all of them in a week.
- AJ Kohn
@erik, you must be living on another planet than I do ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
i sadly agree with stephen @pickering . "what is dead is reading"
- bora "head" basman
i agree with you up to some point. I don't miss the personal blogs but big websites such as Rollingstone or digg offer a lot more content than I can possibly spare time to read. Most of the time I miss them for a few days, then I notice that there are 1000+ entries to read.
- Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu
I just read and skip to important blog or news. Too many things to read these days, too many information
- Hendra Saputra
I use my feed readers in a somewhat deviant way: I create categorized folders about the topics I'm most interested in ( RSS / OPML, Firefox, Twitter, Online Reputation Management, etc). When I come across a feed of interest, I 'feedmark' it by adding it to the appropriate category. Each of these folders become reading lists. Most of the reading lists I create are publicly available at...
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- Marjolein Hoekstra
The way for Newspapers to save themselves is to become video centric, not throw their paper up on the net. Boring. They need to become to internet TV stations. They need to be 24/7 real time. That's what the world is. They need to hire a Leo Laporte for every category and it needs to be totally interactive. When you go to the NYtimes.com it needs to be a totally different experience. Look at the money they have compared to Leo. They could transition to this in a second.
- Stephen Pickering
I read almost all my feeds. If I stop reading a feed, I generally remove it so it won't distract my attention.
- 9000
nope, I only read faved feed. When faved feed is running out of interesting stuff, then I go dig the rest
- Toni @ NavinoT
This is why I declare bankruptcy regularly in Google Reader: So I can read all my feeds. This is also why I don't have 1000+ unread. I subscribe to sites I read, not to popular sites.
- Bwana ☠
I skim all my many subscribed RSS feeds and if they don't update in a few weeks I move them to a special folder-of-death.
- Rick Cogley
I'm very selective and hate skipping items. So yes, i read (almost) everything. In fact, when i can't read all, I unsubscribe.
- Stanislas Jourdan
BTW, friendfeed is precisely the tool complementary with FF because they are different : in FF you can't read everything (but the community filters what is important) whereas on reader, you're more likely to read everything. Very different use IMO
- Stanislas Jourdan
Despite my best efforts - many feeds go unread. That is why the reach number is so important vs. actual total readership.
- Eric
It seems to me that the main point of this discussion is that we need to develop advanced news recommender systems that automatically push the most important news to us on a person by person basis. I wish that Friendfeed would seize this bull by the horns. That most important news should be sifted from all the news in the world, not just from our feed collections.
- Sean McBride
I think that people who don't read almost everything just don't use their reader as they should. But that is just my point of view.
- Stanislas Jourdan
there are a few select feeds that go in my "must reads" folder, everything else gets skimmed. Mark All Read gets used a lot on everything else. it works well.
- Bill Kinney
The "Mark All Read" button is a form wishful thinking. Perhaps, it'd be better labeled "Don't Care."
- Cliff Gerrish
what's funny is that when I see an item pass through friendfeed that I know I've already subscribed to in google reader, I'll skip it and wait to read it in g-reader.
- chrisofspades
Jason -- an effective news recommender algorithm should fit your mind like a glove: the prioritization of global trends PLUS your most intense interests, as determined by your clickstream.
- Sean McBride
Can't read everything - too much stuff ;-) I have basically two categories for feeds - I read all of the majority of my feeds, but I have a dozen or so news/cool stuff feeds that just produce far too much to read it all (on those i skim the latest news occasionally and they often have a couple of hundred unread items)
- immaterial
OK, I'm dense... where'd the friends reports go for my account? Can't figure out how to see them like I used to...
- Walt Ruppar
Paul's statement above makes sense but I think the spirit of the subscriber count change intentionally dilutes feed reader measurements. I've written a long-form response here: http://friendfeed.com/dpritch...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Every blogger should read this thread re:"Think everyone sub'd to your RSS feed actually reads your blog?"
- Alex Schleber
Jason -- I disagree. A newsreader should know your own "cloud tag" by using historical behavior. If that maps to top trends in Twitter great but I certainly don't follow that rule. If that was the case, I'd being reading things about #iran and #squarespace at the top which should not fit my profile unless I started to tag those trends.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I don't read all of my feeds and I don't think anyone does. I scan my feeds though, via ff. People need ways to aggregate our content, and the smartest people are using social platforms like friendfeed, instead of using RSS readers. One reason why is because filtering the noise is highly efficient with friendfeed lists, and conversation is only a click away. Plus ff is ad free and I can connect with people who have similar views. This approach is working great for me so far!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Good point
- LANjackal
I don't read everything, I don't have enough time :-( There are feeds that I do read completely (the whole article), some I just check the headlines to figure out which article is cool, and some I clearly don't read (my 'bulk' folder, with zillions of entries each day).
- TiTi
For the little guy it works... Logged into feedburner and was like Woah... I may actually put a subscriber badge in my site now.
- Walt Ruppar
There are some magazines you just leaf throught and others you read entirely. It's the same for my RSS feeds. I read the first ones on FF, the others on Google reader.
- Stanislas Jourdan
I understand why you don't read everything because if you did there would be little to no time left for work. It might be a great idea to reply to direct communications from folks that promote FriendFeed across other Social Networks - at least sometimes. If you don't they are likely to move on to somewhere their input is valued.
- Internet Strategist
apparently not only doesn't Paul read, he doesn't participate to the conversation he starts, either. There is tremendous value in reading - not just for the mind, but for the brain. Video cannot supplant that, only supplement it. Just because it's easy, it doesn't mean it's better :)
- Valeria Maltoni
Help Build A Database Of Music 2.0 Success Stories: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot... via @hypebot
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great article, its great to see successful musicians reaping rewards after grinding it out on the Web 2.0 forefront
- Mario Mendoza
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. | Derek Sivers - http://sivers.org/zipit
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Keeping hush about new projects....the motivation has to be there
- Mario Mendoza
Subscriber Counts Now Mean Nothing | Regular Geek - http://regulargeek.com/2009...
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So if you have 200 people subscribed to you on FriendFeed, and you've added your blog as a service on FriendFeed, now you can see those subscribers right alongside the subscriber counts from Google Reader, Bloglines, My Yahoo, and anyone else subscribed to your blog's feed.
- Marko Saric
Grammy award winning mixer/producer looking for cool new hiphop/indie projects to mix...holla! www.bassybob.com
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Nice website. Amazing Discography
- Mario Mendoza
hey mario, Thankyou Tell me a little about what you are doing. Bassy
- Bob Brockmann
from email
Hi Bob, Im currently a label partner in Fried Roots, small indie label based out of Los Angeles. I emcee/produce music. Currently working on some new projects. I also write for our music marketing site called Hip Hop Distribution where I discuss techniques for promoting music online. Here is a link to some music we have http://hiphopdistribution.com/blog...
- Mario Mendoza
wow, Mario...I'm really impressed, love the Amazon player, the setup , sounds like I could learn alot from you... I am now teaching music engineering and production (www.elementsofmixing.com) and have a social network on NING elementsofmixing.ning.com. I would love to share ideas, learn form each other, and of course work on your projects ! Lets network Bassy bob
- Bob Brockmann
from email
Appreciate the kind words Bob. I look forward to networking and learning from other musical minds as yourself. Feel free to contact me anytime. I checked out the NING network you got. It looks great, might have to look into more of that.
- Mario Mendoza
cysko to cysko's feed, PownceExiles, Hip-Hop, Hip Hop Distribution, Hip Hop is My Love, REAL TIME PRODUCERS FEED
TuneCore, Amazon Set to Unveil On-Demand CD Sales | Epicenter | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
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i think tunecore is great and now with amazon they have teamed up with they holy web portal to fight the good fight!
- cysko
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A Great Promotion Opportunity (and a Great Idea for Your Music) - http://www.musicmarketing.com/2009...
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Google makes it Search even better with Search Options | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/google-...
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Why You Need a (Blogging) Business Model - http://www.problogger.net/archive...
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Nice work Shaun, in a nutshell, improve your chance of success by creating a plan. Then, work your plan. :)
- Miguel Wickert- Pineiro
Eric B. & Rakim – Paid In Full (Seven Minutes of Music - The Coldcut Remix) - http://sweet.feinx.com/items...
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http://twitpic.com/4gawi - ROIC= return on invested capital. AKA how fast/how much your cash flows. Attn, entrepreneurs w/ cool ideas!
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Ed is doing 30dc again in June this year, anyone coming along for the ride?
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I am!!!
- onna
Pre-season starts June 1st. Don't know that the actual 30dc start date has been announced yet?
- Isha (Marysia)
Yippe-Ki-Yay...
- Dejan
You better count me in! :)
- Michael Roberts
I'll be there. This time I will be involved the same time as the starting group.
- Sandra
hell yes! be there with bells on :) im just finishing last years so this year I'll be in sync with the challenge... woohoo!
- FRAK
Can't wait. Will be even better than last year!
- linda saunders
Mammamia! It's party time already? Count me in :-)
- Ritesh Lal
you bet i'm ridin' the awesomness again baby :)
- Aline Ohannessian
Me Too - wonder what we'll be doing?
- Inspired Writing Research
Me Too - Will have at least 5000 recruits this year Check out the Video I made for my new website promoting 2009 30DC http://is.gd/t2FM Bring your Tissues, it's emotional ;-p
- Kenneth Hamilton
Hi everyone! Long time no see. I'll try to make it =)
- Art Y.
you betcha!
- LeighaB
I'll be there
- Graham Hunt
Not gonna miss it
- David Walton
I'll be there for sure!
- Mitja MG
this time I'm ready to be awesome!!!
- Ingrid Owens
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeha I'll be there
- Russ
I'm in - wouldn't miss an opportunity to make friends and learn tons of stuff!
- Elizabeth
“I’m still not convinced that Internet Marketing isn’t just a bunch of Internet Marketers selling Internet Marketing products to other Internet Marketers…” - http://www.clicknewz.com/1882...
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Me either
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I have been out of the loop for a couple of weeks, but I have had my brain with me. Use the IM products to help yourself, but get out of the bubble that I found myself in thinking that I could only sell IM stuff. Use it and apply it to something else. Peeling an apple, selling your Granny, anything - just get away from selling IM gear - there are too many people selling it too well. Create a product on something unrelated, that's what I'm doing, but I'll use the IM guys to help me sell it!
- san
Somehow the title says the truth. IM products are sold by IM marketers to more people who are promised that they can become IM marketers too.
- TrafficBug
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