Does anyone actually read this?
I'm toying (just toying, mind) with the idea of moving my blog inhouse, so to speak. Blogger.com is great, but I think I'd like to see better stats (referrers and the like), and the best way seems to be to do it myself (ain't that always the way?).
One thing that will help my decision would be knowing roughly how big the audience (that's you, gentle reader) is, and what they like. I like putting personal as well as technical stuff here, but do you enjoy reading it? Say now, or for ever hold your peace! (Feedback is always welcome via comments here, or plain text email; you know the address.)
posted by Rich Teer @ 16:07
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19 Comments:
More more more! I'd love to read any technical/coding pearls of wisdom that you'd share.
My main aversion to Blogger.com blogs is that they encourage or force (thankfully you rs doesn't) you to be a registered member. The old "fill it in yourself" method makes it easier for people to comment.
benr.
I think a lot more people would read OpenSolaris based blogs if Sun would release the code and get 'some action' going. As it is, there is virtually nothing going on with OpenSolaris, not a good sign.
There doesn't seem to be any momentum, and what there was seems to have petered out.
Pre-announcing a Sun-mini loaded with OpenSolaris would be nice ^_^.
You have 14 subscribers on Bloglines, Rich - remember that aggregators like that (and, indeed, PlanetSolaris) can hide the real readership from you.
On moving - Robb's Law asserts you should always blog on your own domain and I always recommend to people that as soon as they are able they should do so. Nonetheless, services like BlogPatrol and SiteMeter can go a long way to giving you the stats you need.
On registration - You'll find that the more popular your site gets, the more you need some form of registration or spam prevention. Roller is getting better and better at this by the day but systems like WordPress and Moveable Type have good spam control. I have to have registration turned on for comments - if I don't, within hours I have spambots filling my old comments with junk to push ratings on Google. It's sad and it keeps people like Ben away but it's that or go full-time deleting spam.
On OpenSolaris - On the contrary, loads is happening as Sun gets all the ducks in a row, and the pilot community (of which Rich is a key member) are doing cool stuff but, as with all duck-related activity, all the paddling is happening under water where you can't see it. Rest assured that it's gonna go public pretty soon - meanwhile consider attending or starting a user group.
There are a couple ways to track who reads your site without fully hosting your own.... you can put a google ad on your site, and they track the number of visitors per day.
Or you could put a small one pixel image on your blog page.. and host that your self, then you can track page visits that way.. it works for the spammers why not use it. I haven't done this but i have thought about it.
I have hosted a vew images and a modified table i created, and found the logs these generated quite amazing. Just a thought.
I read your blogs both via planetsolaris and bloglines.
Sure...I read your blog :}
Well, I do :o} from PlanetSolaris or else.
I just found your blog from benr's blog, and I'm threw it into my Thunderbird right away. I'll be reading from now on.
I'd love to hear technical info, things like that are always good.
You might not remember me, but I was sitting beside you at the Edmonton Unix users group meeting in March, I was also at the talk on Wednesday with Bryan, that might have been the best presentation I've ever been to.
paul - paul at majestik org
Nice blog. The Internet Storm Center has a new Solaris worm called yatze running around. Uses telnet and rcp. Found your blog via Ben Rockwood. Stay warm and Happy easter!
John
jbmoore
I read your blog and I am eagerly waiting for some technical stuff...
Yep :)
I'm reading your blog too although mostly by using an RSS-Aggregator. Keep going!
Its always nice to hear techie words of wisdon, however I do find it interesting to hear about people's lives outside of their primary interest for varieties sake. Keep up the excellent work
I'm another occasional reader, I use RSS feeds for most of the blogs I read, managed by Bloglines.
There's a minor problem with Bloglines (to do with asking it to keep a story marked as new and then that story disappearing from the feed, I think) but it's handy having a single page to visit from the many different machines/browsers I use.
While I prefer the technical posts, the personal ones are interesting, too. I'm a "roll it yourself"er, so I say taking it in-house would make sense. Just make sure we can find it. ;-) Rainer
Of course I do, Rich :)
Hi,
I was just Googling my name and this was the first listing... Teer is my first name...think I might be the only one out there...
Thanks
Yup. I follow your blogs. The technical ones, not the personal ones.
I like a mix of personal and tech stuff on a blog. Makes it more personal. Perhaps use blogging software with categories (and per-category feeds) to make it easy for people to decide what they want to read.
:) :)
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