Here are some stats that you may or may not find interesting:

Traffic

Total Pageviews: 19,661
United States: 61.91%
Canada: 10.85%
United Kingdom: 7.00%
Australia: 2.09%
India: 1.45%
Germany: 1.39%
Philippines: 0.77%
Netherlands: 0.75%
Turkey: 0.72%
France: 0.67%

Sources
google / organic: 26.61%
friendfeed.com: 18.52%
stumbleupon.com: 9.01%
twitter.com: 5.28%

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Go back and read some of your old posts

Sometimes you’d be surprised at the discussions your blog has generated or even how one of your ideas has spread across the blogosphere.  This is a good exercise to rebuild any lost self-confidence so you can get right back on that horse.

Start reading your RSS feeds again

Chances are you’ve not only stopped blogging, but you’ve stopped reading RSS feeds too.  Catching up with your blogging acquaintances is a great way to get inspired and catch up with the latest ideas.

Join discussions

…on blog posts, Friendfeed, SocialMedian, etc.  Get engaged again and throw your opinions out there on Twitter.  See what folks are saying about your favourite topics on social news sites and rant chat away!

Summarize your time off

You probably reorganized some life priorities while you were away.  How did you spend your time usually slotted for blogging?  Let folks know how your real life is going.

Respond to a hot topic

…with a fresh perspective!  Try not to re-enter the echo chamber.

Setup drafts

Have an idea for a post? Create a draft and add thoughts little by little as they enter your head. As time goes by, string them together and mold them into a bigger thought that flows well.

Set realistic goals for blogging in the future

How often do you really need to blog? What are you trying to accomplish with your blog?  Louis Gray reminds me that you don’t really have to blog everyday unless you’re being paid to do so.

So here I am, trying to follow my own advice.  I’ve taken these steps in hopes of not only blogging on a more regular basis, but having more realistic expectations.  I’ve gone back and read some of my old posts and I still can’t figure out why people are so interested in what I have to say, but I am grateful for it.

Have you recently overcome a blogging hiatus, funk, sabbatical, or whatever?

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I had TechCrunch and Scobleizer on the list but their recent redesigns look great!

Hopefully, without sounding like another design snob, I’d like to list some popular blogs that I hope get a redesign in 2009.

In no specific order:

1) Lifehacker

Really its not just Lifehacker but all the Gawker Media blogs.

2) LouisGray.com

Louis Gray has a great blog with some of the most interesting thoughts and topics out there, and a fresh design would be a great complement.

3) Techipedia

So much potential here, would love to see a design that incorporates the logo well.

4) Read Write Web

Read Write Web is one of my favourite blogs and the layout and typography isn’t really that horrible.  It’s mostly the header and logo that bug me.

5) ProBlogger

I used to like ProBlogger’s design — not sure what happened.  Maybe it was the increase in ads or maybe I got tired of reading Helvetica in such small font sizes (one of my web pet peeves).

6) The Last Podcast

Frederic runs a great blog here as well, but this template needs to go.

7) ChrisBrogan.com

I don’t actually have any real beef with his current design, personally I just loved the previous one so much more.  Bring it back Chris!

8) Performancing

Very helpful blog but I’m not a fan of fluid width layouts plus it really could use a refresh.  Not friendly with 17” monitors either.

9) Web Strategy by Jeremiah

Earlier this year, Jeremiah asked what he could do to improve the way his blog looks.   I suggested he change the background to white instead of light gray.  But now, I’m asking for more

10) Micro Persuasion

Not sure how flexible Typepad is, but I’d love to see what could be done here.

Now, before I get anyone lashing back at me, please consider that my intentions are not to be critical of these blogs as a whole.  I just think the visual aspects warrant some improvement.

Do you agree or disagree?  What sites would you add to this list?

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In accordance with Blog Day 2008, here are 5 blogs I’m reading that I recommend you read as well:

One Little Cog
Blog of Ehren Cheung, web marketing & data coordinator at the Dundurn Group.

Shannon Whitley
Blog of developer/systems admin, Shannon Whitley.

Pulse and Signal
Commentary on the impact and potential usefulness, of technology (social media, consumer/emerging web tech) on health communication and social marketing.

Rick Mahn
Exploration of social media & web 2.0’s strengths and failings.

Jeffrey Simms Photography
Blog of photographer, Jeffrey Simms.

And for good measure, be sure to subscribe to one more…mine

introspective snapshots

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When going through the process of adding / friending / following in social media, we often look for a common characteristic in our ‘friends’.  These characteristics can be anything, from the love of tech, design, political affiliation or religion or any other type of culture.  Why do we do this?  It’s an attempt in the perpetual battle of finding the the signal amongst the noise, but on that journey, are we falling prey to too much narcissism?

Here’s my concern:

If we only encourage interactions with people who are like ourselves by religion, politics, language, industry, etc., and shy away from everything else, will that not enclose us in a bubble?

Some Effects of the Bubble

One effect is that we end up with groupthink and an increasingly larger echo chamber.  A false reality is created by the purposeless regurgitation of ideas, everyone sheepishly agreeing with everyone else, and the ensuing lack of perspective due to isolation from the rest of the space.  Being open-minded isn’t enough.  What good is it being open-minded if there aren’t encounters with other perspectives?

Another effect is a related to the echo chamber: just pure boredom. Hearing about the same old topics over and over again can result in social media fatigue and blogger burnout.  Personally, I’d rather comment on someone else’s post rather than perpetuating a worn-out topic.  Sometimes, a comment can be just as meaningful as a post. (Heck, Disqus even thinks comments are blog posts)

Other effects include the suppression of different points of view which pushes folks to hold back on their level of engagement; and the isolation of those who dare to share all of the topics they like.

My Advice

• Diversify your friend subscriptions
• Encourage constructive discussion
• Backup your opinions with facts
• Empathize so you can be open-minded to see other viewpoints — you will learn more and appreciate others, and have others appreciate you for understanding them
• Being open-minded also involves welcoming a variety of topics from unexpected sources
• Be patient, you may have to endure some noise to gain more signal

In the end I think this will help you have more meaningful interactions, bring an added excitement to learning, and achieve greater satisfaction in your social media journey.

Is following a diverse group of people important to you?

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You can see it in action at the bottom of all my posts, courtesy of the ShareThis WordPress plugin (there’s also a JavaScript version available).  A tip for Wordpress K2 users, make sure to turn off Advanced Navigation when using ShareThis.

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Does Your Social Network Isolate You?

Like Steven, I did wonder if FriendFeed isolates us, in a way.  But then I realized that I chose to isolate myself — in 2 ways:

1. I chose to eliminate noise in search of the much-desired signal.
2. I chose to focus my interactions on a more personal avenue rather than just reading anything and everything (in other words, be more social!).

By doing this, I narrowed my scope of interactions, purposefully, for fear of information overload.  I just wanted to be able to cut to the good stuff.  After this refinement, should I expect to find that only one or two people who think they have stuff figured out?

Is There A Way Out?

There are many opinions on this; Colin Walker makes a couple good points:

Social media must not become a self congratulatory love-in unless there is actually something worth celebrating.

..it [social media] becomes boring when “the same topic goes round in circles and, just when you think it’s done with, someone else throws in a ‘me too’ post and rakes over it all again but with no insight or added value.”

I agree with Colin, but who is to judge what is worth celebrating and what isn’t; what is value and what isn’t?  It is really up to the individual or is there something the community can do? 

I believe there is. We can stop being so quick to belittle those who have an opinion.  We should not be afraid to disagree, but how are we going about it? I think this negative type of chastising behaviour encourages a kind of ‘groupthink’ that only amplifies the effects of the echo chamber. 

Believe me, I’m not saying we should treat everyone with kid gloves, but we’re all human beings with sensitivities, unique experiences and walks of life — we should appreciate that and use it to the community’s advantage.

I think we can encourage the expression of diverse opinions. If we choose not to, our complaints about the echo chamber are in vain.

Why is the echo chamber a problem for you?  What can you/we do to correct it?

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1. Create a private online digital archive with Rooms

Mike Fruchter’s post on this describes how he uses FriendFeed Rooms to archive photos, messages, and other information about his then newborn daughter.

Inspired from Mike’s example, I use a private FriendFeed Room to store info on new post ideas and track discussions on my blog posts and other topics.

2. Have your own personal homepage

Mitchell Tsai, one of FriendFeed’s Conversationalists, has started a homepage for himself that links to many other conversations he’s been having on FriendFeed.  It’s an astounding project as it links to other collections of discussions, with some linking back to the homepage.

3. Live blogging

As far as I know, the first use of FriendFeed for live blogging was done by yours truly (before Rooms were introduced) while on a Forrester Web 2.0 Webinar.  The more familiar instance was MG Siegler’s VentureBeat WWDC Livestream.  (Between me and you, MG’s was much more interesting ).  I also came across Cameron Neylon’s liveblogging of the workshop Data Sharing in the Biosciences.

4. Research

FriendFeed is a valuable source of data and behaviours, just waiting to be transformed into information.  There are two main ways to get the data you’re looking for: by asking for it and by searching for it.  For a tutorial on FriendFeed searching, I’m taking the easy way out and linking you to Louis Gray’s FriendFeed Advanced Search tutorial; he’ll tell you all you need to know.

Here are examples of how I’ve done research by asking questions on FriendFeed:

• “To do lists / reminders: What do you use?”
• “How much do you consider SEO when writing a blog post?”
• “Where do you store all your great blog post ideas?”

5. Uber-sharing

FriendFeed Rooms are not just being used to reduce noise; they’re being used to share noise as well .  Mike Fructer’s Share your Google Reader! room and Ontario Emperor’s lastfmfeeds room are great examples of this.  They collect the Google Reader shares and the Last.fm recently played tracks of other FriendFeed members for all to enjoy.

It’s great seeing such innovative uses of a great service that really show how creative the users are and how flexible FriendFeed is.

What are some other unique uses you’ve seen?

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I think it’s possible for the services to come together and develop a standard for commenting systems (as suggested by Dave Stanley of Shyftr).  This standard would provide a framework for updating comments across the blog, commenting systems, and third-party services (like FriendFeed or Shyftr).

Of course this also requires input and cooperation from these third-party services for this to really work.   The ultimate goal: distributed conversations with aggregated discussions.

What future implications do you think this will have on how you blog and participate in discussions?

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Author Preference

Many bloggers have voiced their concerns over distributed conversations.  Out of respect to them, I try to comment on the original post.  However, there’s no guarantee I’ll do this 100% of the time; there are still other factors I consider (keep reading).

Author is/isn’t on FriendFeed

I’m much more likely to comment on FriendFeed if I know the author is an active FriendFeeder.

However, I will admit that I sometimes comment only on FriendFeed because I’m more interested what readers have to say than the author’s response.  This is usually a situation where I’m looking for feedback from others to get their viewpoint, rather than the author just defending their position.

FriendFeed Related

Blog posts about FriendFeed have a very good probability of receiving my comments via FriendFeed.  This way other FriendFeeders are more likely to read and respond.

Audience Exposure

At times, I’ll want to share a blog post with the FriendFeed community using the FriendFeed bookmarklet, subsequently leaving my comment there.

Comment Limit

Obviously if I’ve got more to say than FriendFeed allows, I’ll go and comment on the blog post.  But I usually just write out a new post if it gets too long.

The Blog’s Commenting System

Disqus and Intense Debate are my favourite commenting systems and make it much easier for me to leave blog comments.  I’m definitely turned off by commenting systems that make me have to enter all my details every time I want to comment. 

In addition, Disqus and Intense Debate both integrate with FriendFeed, allowing my comments to be commented on some more.

Summary

I definitely comment more on FriendFeed than anywhere else; but it’s not a rule.  I consider several factors when commenting on a post which include the interests of the author, myself, and my community.

What helps you decide where to leave a comment?

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Feedback Quality

By keeping comments distributed, or decentralized, more than one discussion is able to take place.  New ideas are likely to be heard since readers often start with a blank slate and are more likely to participate.  Discussions also take different directions depending on where the conversation starts.  In contrast with centralization, a post usually consists of a stream of comments which may or may not be directed to one another — many just congratulating the author on writing a great post.  In other words, many blog comments end up being just that, comments. 

In FriendFeed, real discussions have been taking place.  I’m not saying this can’t happen on the blog post; it can, but it happens on FriendFeed more often and with ease.  However, thanks to services like Disqus and Intense Debate, commenting on blog posts has never been easier, and many readers love it.

Feedback Quantity

Now think about the reach of FriendFeed, and how one person’s ‘like’ or comment pulls it into their friends’ stream and if those friends ‘like’ it, etc. and so on.  The potential audience is enormous.  I have 217 people subscribed to me in FriendFeed, and that’s probably nowhere near the top, think of the implications of that.  FriendFeed is becoming an increasingly larger portion of traffic to many blogs.

Not to mention the other implications of FriendFeed, and other services like it, that may follow.

Decentralized Comments, Aggregated Discussions

I believe the solution is aggregated discussions, not centralized comments. If you look below, you’ll see the FriendFeed Comments plugin installed.  It allows me to pull in comments made in FriendFeed onto my posts.   Readers can also directly comment and/or ‘like’ the post from my blog straight into FriendFeed.

There Is No Perfect Solution, Yet

Of course, there is still much integration and aggregation to do.  The FriendFeed Comments plugin only pulls comments from the Blog entry and not Google Reader shares, Del.icio.us links, or the Disqus comments.

What does that mean for the blogger? In the words of Hutch Carpenter, "If you love your blog, set it free."  Engage your readers.  Try to keep up with the discussions and participate — show them your appreciation.  To help, use YackTrack; it allows you to see comments on your post across a variety of services including Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and more. It has been recently updated with RSS feeds and APIs.

While I disagree with Allen that FriendFeeders should be bouncing around from FriendFeed to source and back, I do agree that more integration is needed.  I’d love for FriendFeed comments on a Flickr photo to go back to Flickr, and for the same to happen with blogs and other services.  But as of now that functionality doesn’t exist and until it does, I think you’ll find very few users willing to do it Allen’s way.

What’s your idea of the perfect solution? 

How likely are you to go back and comment on both the original source and on FriendFeed?

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The Change in Community Interaction

FriendFeed is changing the way bloggers and readers of blogs interact with each other.  This phenomenon, recently named Blogging 2.0, is becoming more and more widely accepted; however, there are some who choose to remain in Blogging 1.0. Just last night there was a discussion on where the conversations should take place and whether or not the blogger should have control over them, as summarized by Colin Walker.  Distributed conversations are here to stay and FriendFeed is the big culprit.  All content aggregated into FriendFeed can be "liked" or commented on by users with a simple click, compared to the regular blog post system of commenting where a user must Enter Name, Enter Email, and Enter Website to leave a comment.  Users have to then return to the post to see other comments and possibly repeat the process again.

This is not only true for blogs, FriendFeed also affects interactions with other media such as photos and video, albeit less dramatically. The sharing of images and videos are all on the rise due to the increased “favouriting” of Flickr photos and YouTube videos and use of the FriendFeed bookmarklet. While the “favourite” function has pre-existed in Flickr and YouTube, FriendFeed spreads the reach of this content on a much higher level.

The "Global Village"

FriendFeed nurtures what McLuhan called the "global village", or what Robert Scoble calls, "The Worldwide Talk Show".  It’s where everyone from everywhere can participate in the conversation and make it visible to everyone else.  FriendFeed allows your commented-on content to be shown to others in your network, whose commented and liked stories are made visible to others in their network…etc.  FriendFeed has allowed me to be influenced by a wide variety of people, and vice versa, in a way that not even Twitter has allowed.

The Bottom Line

Eventually, I believe the business models around Blogging 2.0 will have to change.  I posed this question on Duncan Riley’s post Blogging 2.0 and Professional Blogging:

Duncan has addressed this in a recent post about Blogging 2.0 and Advertising.  He states that for the most part the Blogging 1.0 ad models are still around; however, he expects more Blogging 2.0 solutions to emerge this year.

Lindsay Donaghe has a great post about the future of FriendFeed as an intelligent agent and recommendation engine and suggests it could work with a Squidoo-like business model behind it.

What do you think?  What other potential effects will FriendFeed have? What advertising models can work in this new landscape?

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Do you think MySpace, Facebook, and Hotmail are about as exciting as the Internet gets? Let me give you a glimpse into how RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you talk to) helps enrich my Internet experience.

Holla At Me

In my earlier web-surfing years, I would go from site, to site, to site, reading all the new articles and updates on my usual list of websites. I had them all in my browser favourites and would go down my list to see which ones had some interesting new stuff for me to go through. That proved to be time-consuming: some sites had interesting stuff, many didn’t, and some had not even been updated at all.

Enter RSS!

Now, instead of going through my favourites or bookmarks, RSS allows me to subscribe to my favourite sites and let them tell me what the newest content is. The site’s RSS feed also lets me read older content as well. This is possible by using an RSS feed reader; my reader of choice is Google Reader. It takes all of my subscriptions and puts them in one place so I can see all the updates to favourite sites at the same time — no more bouncing from site to site means I save a bunch of time. Google Reader also makes it easy for me to organize my subscriptions and even gives me statistics on my reading habits.

There are many other feed readers out there, you can try them out and see which one you like best. The coolest thing about it is, I can even read a site’s content without even going to their webpage! However, this depends on how much the site lets you read through their RSS feed, but you can always click through to the website from your feed reader.

Show Me What You Got

RSS is great for sharing stuff and opens the door to a whole new way of being social; on the web! For starters, with RSS I can share my del.icio.us bookmarks (What’s del.icio.us?), my blog posts, and stuff from my favourite websites (using Google Reader).

Shey, you’ve confused me

I don’t blame you if the whole RSS thing still doesn’t make sense, but watch this video, these guys explain it much better than I can:

Here are some links to more information about RSS and how you can use it to enhance your Internet experience:

• 35 Ways You Can Use RSS Today
• 150+ RSS Resources
• The Ultimate RSS Toolbox – 120+ RSS Resources
• What is RSS and what can it do for you?

If you already use RSS, what other ways does it help enrich your time online?

Feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts and questions!

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I just read about this on Regular Geek via Corvida and Rob Diana. The service allows you too see comments on your post across a variety of services including Digg, Disqus, FriendFeed, Mixx, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and WordPress blogs, with plans for expansion.

Using YackTrack, I tracked the comments on my post We Need Social Media Interpreters, not more Evangelists.

I’m looking forward to YackTrack’s expansion and maybe a Wordpress plugin *wink wink*? I’d like to be able to easily share with my readers the different choices for participating in discussion.

But will this satisfy those who are missing the comments on their blog? That depends on whether the argument was about fractured discussions or reduced income from pageviews in the first place.

Do you see YackTrack as a useful tool or is it just encouraging the “catastrophe” that is fractured discussion? It is just a tool for the blogger or can it give value to both reader and writer? Feel free to comment wherever, I’ll try and track you down with YackTrack .

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I think instead of getting anxious, bloggers need to adapt. Yes, the conversations are becoming fragmented. The question is,

What are you (the blogger) going to do about it?

We can all complain about not getting the pageviews but is that going to change reader behaviour? Probably not. I doubt all the blog posts in the world chastising FriendFeed and Shyfter is going to change anything. Tony Hung makes a good argument that Shyfter crosses the line but he does accept that user comments do not belong to him.

The fact is reader behaviour is changing: we want everything now and if you can’t give it to us how and when we want it, we’ll get it from somewhere that can. I think it’s time to embrace the evolution of the conversation before too many get left in the dark ages.

Do you plan on adapting to these new changes in the conversation? Or do you think there’s a way out of this?

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You’re looking at the first of many posts to come on my new blog. After many re-designs, re-organization, and re-thinking of how to put this together, I finally decided to just do it and get it over with. Design-wise, let me know what you like and what you don’t like.

Me and Blogging

This isn’t my first blogging attempt, I started one for my wedding planning 2 or 3 years ago (now defunct), which was a ton of fun.

It’s too bad I didn’t know about WordPress then — ended up doing it in Nucleus, which at the time, was pretty convoluted. Turns it couldn’t handle the web server upgrade to PHP5. Anyway, I digress. The thought of blogging again is kinda scary — What if my content sucks? What if I don’t have the time to post? What if I get myself in trouble somehow?

Personally, those are crappy excuses — I plan on tackling the issues as they come up, kinda like my plan for blog topics – discussing ideas/events as they happen.

What are your tips for this startup “blogger”? Where do you get ideas for posts and how much do you mix things up?

P.S.: Let me know if I’ve left out any useful blog features/functionality or if there’s something you’d like me to add.

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