Category: Blogging

What Stops You Commenting?

Blogging

I am loving Twitter at the moment … I am coming in contact with more and more people who have fascinating blogs, great insight and, well, a brilliant sense of humour. It is always a joy to dig into a newly discovered blog … to find out about what interests them, how they interpret their passion (or their work), and how their readers respond to their writing.

Chris Hambly has a great blog that looks at new media … with some great recent posts on the state of the music industry. But digging found I found this great question … "what stops you commenting?". It made me think. I get a lot of visits here and a mostly regular core of commentors … but what about the casual reader? What about the feed reader? What about the lurker?

Really, I am interested to know … perhaps there is something that I can do to invite you into the conversation. A change in tone. More seriousness? Less?

Go on … let me know. As Chris says, "lose the comment fear".

Is This My Sphere of Influence?

Blogging, Measurement

TouchGraph
Originally uploaded by servantofchaos

I found this neat tool on Darren Rowse’s Problogger site.

You can map keywords or you can simply enter a URL. To get this map (and to watch it grow in front of my eyes), I entered servantofchaos.typepad.com.

Not only do you get a funky looking map that shows the sites linking to you (and the sites that link to them), you get a great long list with short descriptions. To do this, TouchGraph calls on the Google search database. BUT … this is not all TouchGraph does. It also works for Facebook — and links to your friends, shows their networks and their photos.

Neat.