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Re: 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media

chrisbaskind — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:09:38 -0000

It was actually on over a hundred sites Tuesday -- an experiment in collective community action. :)

Re: 10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media

daveconrey — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:03:12 -0000

This is great... if I hadn't seen it on a dozen other sites today.

Re: Palafox Pier and Farmer’s Market

AnneW — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:58:12 -0000

What sort of foot traffic do they get there?

Re: The Abandoned Garden

chrisbaskind — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:51:04 -0000

Spent several years in Memphis. It's beautiful in the spring. Our dogwoods are already doing their thing -- won't be long for you.

Re: The Abandoned Garden

Lynn — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:28:35 -0000

Thanks for the inspiring peek. We are waiting with great anticipation for Memphis to do her Spring show off dance of dogwoods and azaleas in just a few more weeks!

Re: Why Twitter Must Die

Sky — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:10:20 -0000

Twitter needs to die and die fast! What a waste of space and garbage mound this site is. Who the hell cares what people are doing to with their day in 2 sentences or less every f*&^ing 5 minutes. What a colossal waste of time that must be to update the world (who doesn't care anyways) about what you're doing. Damn I hope this site's hype fizzles, quickly. We're sick of hearing about twitter this, twitter than. Just die.

Re: The Abandoned Garden

Alexandra B. — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:47:48 -0000

Sup dad i remembered to check

Re: Groundhog Day 2009: Pensacola Max Forecasts an Early Spring

chrisbaskind — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:59:00 -0000

I'm pretty sure "Anynamous" is my daughter, Alex. :-)

Re: Groundhog Day 2009: Pensacola Max Forecasts an Early Spring

Anynamous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:12:18 -0000

LOL my dads rottie is to cute!

Re: Groundhog Day 2009: Pensacola Max Forecasts an Early Spring

Ontario Emperor — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:10:36 -0000

Thank you for sharing the forecasting abilities of this talented Rottweiler. If his pee froze before hitting the ground, I would assume a long winter, shadow or no.

Re: Palafox Pier and Farmer’s Market

janettetoral — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:06:58 -0000

Wow that is a good start!

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

chrisbaskind — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:00:13 -0000

Your comment is certainly not spam, and I'll be over to check you out. :-)

Re: Palafox Pier and Farmer’s Market

BitterEnd — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:53:41 -0000

These places are great. Let's hope people will find this one.

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

chrisbaskind — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:49:54 -0000

On this site, I'm using Mint metrics and the Birdfeeder plugin. The numbers it has been producing are very similar to those measured by FeedBurner. Don't get me wrong: This was just a thought piece, and I expect FeedBurner to improve. But there are other options, and I expect we'll see new ones this year.

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

Beth Kanter — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:42:07 -0000

what are the best ways to measure your RSS subscriber reach other than Feedburner? Postrank? Can you share some thoughts?

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

rodica — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:57:15 -0000

[+] definitely, in wordpress or whatever platform you're blogging from.

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

Ajay — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:01:52 -0000

Great article. Besides using MyBrand, a good option is to use .htaccess redirects to the feedburner feeds.

This is what I have been doing on all my blogs. I ask users to subscribe to my native feed itself. Recently I had to shift feeds because FB suddenly stopped working on one blog.

And another feed just got deleted for no reason on the Feedproxy service.

As for the support, it is simply terrible!

Re: The Unbreakable Rules of Social Media

janettetoral — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:18:29 -0000

I can't seem to view the image. =(

Re: There Is No Authority In Social Media

DigitalSignals — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:44:55 -0000

Good post Chris, just shared the article as I think it illustrates all that is good and bad with "social media".

There's a natural propensity to follow trends on the likes of Twitter, following only those with Social Media in their profile for example. Don't; take a moment to read their last 10-20 posts and get a feel of the value they maybe adding to you as an individual and then decide whether to follow or not.

I am currently writing a post on a not dissimilar matter, but its good to remind to us all to reap the real value from what I think is a very powerful facility when used effectively.

Cheers!

Re: The Unbreakable Rules of Social Media

spostareduro — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:32:13 -0000

Sadly, some take advantage of this. :-(

Re: The Unbreakable Rules of Social Media

chrisloft — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:45:35 -0000

Ahh . . . now I see . . . I don't usually like rules - they are made to be broken . . . adioso from sunny, South Australia

Re: The Unbreakable Rules of Social Media

baratunde — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:40:27 -0000

where's the post?

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

Georg — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:45:20 -0000

Now that would really be brilliant

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

janettetoral — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:52:13 -0000

In some of the blog ranking site like Ratified, blogs are ranked according to several parameters and one of them is the number of Feedburner subscribers. Data is picked up through its API and for as long as the blog owner allows 3rd party data access for that.

However, we noticed that there are cases recently where some were able to jack up their subscriber numbers. This is an exploit that Feedburner should address in order to remain a reliable indicator of blog subscriber stats. Also, those who enable their AdSense on Feeds experience problems in sharing their subscriber data because of setting changes. This result to inaccurate data pick-up for blog ranking purposes.

Re: Is It Time to Let FeedBurner Burn?

chrisbaskind — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:09:42 -0000

Your communication, Matt, have been very welcome. Thanks for addressing this.