Machiavellian Blog Nomenclature

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1. Rick Beckman (4 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 6:47 pm

   Daily. I’m not subscribed to very many, and most of those aren’t updated very often at all.
2. Zach (2 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 8:23 pm

   Well thats not good.

   -Zach of ZachIsHere.com
3. Peter (5 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 8:41 pm

   Interesting observation – I guess that’s why on voting cards, the names tend to be randomized, to eliminate any perceived advantage a candidate might get by having a name like “Archie Arnold” or similar.
4. Patrick Havens (14 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 9:09 pm

   Zach… I have to say that would suck… but I don’t think all is that way…

   Personally I jump around, and I use readers (One a site I made I Vant Info and another Google Personalized, that display the top 5 posts from the feeds I want… and then I strart searching from there.
5. Patrick Havens (14 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 9:10 pm

   Zach… I have to say that would suck… but I don’t think all is that way…

   Personally I jump around, and I use readers (One a site I made I Vant Info and another Google Personalized, that display the top 5 posts from the feeds I want… and then I strart searching from there.
6. Patrick Havens (14 comments.) says:

   7/27/2006 at 9:12 pm

   Weird.. for some reason when commenting Firefox is asking me to download the php file.

   Please delete junk posts… sorry. I thought the server was puking, until I refreshed.
7. chewxy (8 comments.) says:

   7/28/2006 at 12:01 am

   Was it MS Comic Chat? I loved that program!
8. Digital Photo Ted (1 comments.) says:

   7/28/2006 at 2:34 am

   This issue goes even further. On many websites which list the blogs they choose aphabetic sequence defaulting the index page to “A”. No points for guessing which page gets highest Google PageRank.
9. Jo (2 comments.) says:

   7/28/2006 at 6:32 am

   I use bloglines and put all my feeds into different folders – friends, photoblogs, tech stuff, news, etc and then read each folder of updated feeds according to my mood at the time. Friends’ blog feeds tend to get read first while news usually gets left til last.
10. Jim (2 comments.) says:

    7/28/2006 at 7:35 am

    Sounds like it’s time to trim the blogroll a bit. I read all the blogs on my blogroll on a daily basis, usually immediately as they are updated (I have a notifier on my reader).
11. kaufman (4 comments.) says:

    7/28/2006 at 12:17 pm

    Bloglines allows you to sort by the number of unread posts, but it’s not the default setting. I use it that way, combined with jo’s suggestion on using bloglines folders, and my reading effort gets spread out among all of my feeds. In addition, if I find a feed to be especially boring or irrelevant and can’t determine if it’s just a temporary situation, I move that feed to a “probationary” folder, which I let fill up, and only check weekly or so. That gives it enough time for the feed to fill up and (hopefully) give a more thorough representation of the feed – if it’s still bad, then I delete it.
12. Jody (1 comments.) says:

    7/28/2006 at 2:24 pm

    heh heh…I noticed that, too. Since then I’ve been reading from a-z one day, then z-a on the next day. So many there are some around the letters k-n that I’m missing.
13. Fei (1 comments.) says:

    7/28/2006 at 8:03 pm

    I read feeds sometimes…if I have time that is
14. Jessica Doyle (4 comments.) says:

    7/28/2006 at 9:21 pm

    What an interesting conversation to happen upon. It reminds me of how attendance in elementary school was done. Some of my teachers changed their roll-calling efforts daily to make sure everyone felt special. I don’t have weblogtoolscollection on my links page on my blog. I do come here often though to read either by typing we… into firefox and letting the browser do the rest until i clear my browsing history again. I happened into this conversation through my dashboard cool eh?

    I visit all my links on my links page. I also began using cocomment to track where I am talking. I use cocomment more than my reader. I find just through clicking links in a post or sidebar (any links) on the sites I surf to I end up more or less routing back to the originating site somehow. Perhaps what goes around comes around. I end up back here more than once a week on average.

    I think the fallback to readers (RSS) for some users could be that they like clicking through to other sites rather than having to just see it in their reader. They become oversaturated with sameness. Every once in a while like a every few weeks I go in and delete, hide, or add new lbookmarks, inks, comments or RSS feeds appropriately to whichever service I am using to browse with. Through doing that it keeps things fresh and you begin to learn where to put everyone. Also sometimes it’s just easy to remember an addy from the top of your head or even do a tag search for a site if you are stuck.

    thanks for the conversation Mark and thx commenters I learned a little bit about bloglines. Cheers!
15. Meredith (24 comments.) says:

    7/31/2006 at 12:32 pm

    I read everything in my Bloglines probably an average of twice a week. I try to keep up with my LiveJournal friends page every couple of days.
16. Stacey (2 comments.) says:

    8/2/2006 at 1:18 pm

    I make an effort to go through all of my feeds every day. For me, the blogs that don’t update as frequently are the first I read. If a blog is spitting out posts every hour, I can get lazy and ignore them. I’m certainly not saying I’m the ‘norm’….it’s just how I use my feedreader. Alphabetical order doesn’t have any basis on how I read my feeds – it’s frequency.