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Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

jkuramot — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:57:27 -0000

Subscriptions are weird. They fluctuate for no apparent reason. I was surprised we have so few emails subs. Oddly, we only have 200-ish using Reader. I think Bloglines is the preferred reader, but I've no idea why. Maybe Matt or Dan can shed some light there.

I'm constantly using email as a reminder system, calling my voicemail and leaving notes a la Jott. That's one killer feature that I can't live without.

I see you don't proof "red" your comments on other people's blogs :)

Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

davidhaimes — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:36:24 -0000

So I did my blog and got - Oracle-See-Thumbs-People !

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/183608/Thumbs

I have about 75 email subscribers, I think I have around three hundred in RSS. What that means I don't know, but email is certainly a choice people want so who am I to argue. One little secret - I subscribe to my own blog via email, then when the mail hits my inbox I give it a proof red and edit if necessary. It's that email as a to do list syndrome again...

Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

jkuramot — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:36:26 -0000

Hey, thanks for the tip on Wordle, cool stuff.

We have a strange demographic of subscribers. Like you, I would have expected more email subscribers. I think maybe it's not obvious enough, being below the fold and all, still 17 is way lower than I thought. We have about 200 subscribers who use Google Reader; I know this thanks to a Greasemonkey script. Again, this is lower than I expected.

So, the real question is how are these people reading? I know a few people use Bloglines, and I guess I could check the stats more closely. Still a mystery to me.

Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

Jim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:51:14 -0000

Wow, my name on the AppsLab blog! It's a really great tool - it's amazing how clever programmers are. I had a go for my site:
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/166352/jimpix

Couldn't work out why "Tidsdale" was so prominent, until I remembered that I had quoted a Mark Steel article about the Olypmics, which is being pulled from the RSS.

Interesting that you have about 800 people subscribed to your RSS feed, but only 17 on email. On my teeny tiny site, I have 130 subscribed, and 108 are on email. I think it just shows that your readers are a tech savy group of web users, while people who use ecards and end up on my site aren't as likely to be into RSS etc. since they're sending ecards in the first place, which are soooo not web 2.0!

Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

jkuramot — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:20:16 -0000

Data visualizations rule. It would be even cooler to run it against your entire history of blogging for a more complete view of your content.

Re: The Wordle According to AppsLab

Tim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:55:32 -0000

It is a terrible time waster :0)
I ran it for my blog a while back, just ran it again
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/165056/OracleBIP

Did not get what I expected - Product, Market, Sales? Cant be a blog about BI Publisher or reporting. Then realized that several of my recent posts have had XML data pasted into them with repeating elements such as PRODUCT, MARKET, etc - hence the funky results.