Breaking Up Is Hard/Easy To Do
Interesting thread on Threadwatch about what makes a person continue to read a blog, or unsubscribe. “Ad Age and Vizu Answers conducted a new study on blog readership. 67.3% of the respondents follow links to learn about new blogs. What is more blog readers rely upon recommendations on blogs (22.9%) more highly than simply finding a blog via a search …
Everyone Is Leaving
Where is everyone going? First, Nick leaves Performancing. Andy is leaving Text Link Ads & ReviewMe. Next thing you know, Danny Sullivan will leave SearchEngineWatch! As if…
Top Search Stories Week Ending January 19, 2007
Top search stories linked to by search bloggers this week. WikiSeek launches. Opinion is damning. Google change Adsense policies. Putting the squeeze on contextual competition. How Yahoo Blew It. How the multi-colored Google monster stomped Yahoo underfoot. Google offer $10 bonus for Google Checkout signup. PayPal still miles ahead. Google looking for more ad-space offline. Coming to a forehead near …
TechMeme And The Echo Chamber
Interesting interview with Techmeme creator Gabe Rivera by Danny Sullivan. I’m also addicted to TechMeme. It does its’ job so well. Whilst Digg consists mostly of tedious trivia, Techmeme does a great job of finding serious tech stories. They use a mix of technology and human evaluation (i.e. link analysis). Gabe has an interesting response to the echo-chamber effect: “Clearly …
Blogs Are Mailing Lists
I always thought that was obvious, but you’d think otherwise by looking at some of the chest-beating over various pay-per-post initiatives. This method of advertising is nothing new, as we’ve seen in email lists ever since email lists started. Why are blogs being held to a different standard? The real problem with pay-per-post, as far as I can see, is …
List Of Popular Feed Readers
Following on from my post yesterday about moving to Google Reader, there was some good feedback, worth repeating: Ben is developing a feed-reader, called Feedable, although it doesn’t seem to be available as yet? Bill pointed out an interesting study on feed reader interfaces dotTim pointed out that Bloglines marks everything as you read it. Agreed! I’m finding it really …
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