Thursday, December 16, 2004
Bloggy goodness
Eureka! Thanks to Mixing Memory, I discovered this Blogger Hack for comments, written by one Ebenezer Orthodoxy. If it works well, I might also install his Recent Comments hack, Farrago. You should now be able to make comments much more easily at Mode for Caleb, without having to log into Blogger. You will also be able to leave your URL and email address. So there is no excuse for not letting me have a piece of your mind. Go ahead: give it a riff on this post. See what you think about letting more of us see what you think.
If you're looking for something to comment about, consider advising me about stat counters. Since starting this blog, I've been using StatCounter. I've been pleased with the service, but I've found that sometimes the server can be slow. So I've also been trying out SiteMeter, which seems to be a popular alternative. So far, though, I've been very disappointed with SiteMeter. It doesn't pick up referrals well at all, and the StatCounter display is much more intuitive and comprehensive. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a secret link in SiteMeter that will knock my socks off? If not, I'm coming to the conclusion that StatCounter is superior.
If you're still looking for something to comment about, I'm also thinking about starting a list of representative posts in my sidebar. If you have suggestions about posts that seem to represent the blog best, let me know. I'm not always the best judge of my self.
If you're looking for something to comment about, consider advising me about stat counters. Since starting this blog, I've been using StatCounter. I've been pleased with the service, but I've found that sometimes the server can be slow. So I've also been trying out SiteMeter, which seems to be a popular alternative. So far, though, I've been very disappointed with SiteMeter. It doesn't pick up referrals well at all, and the StatCounter display is much more intuitive and comprehensive. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a secret link in SiteMeter that will knock my socks off? If not, I'm coming to the conclusion that StatCounter is superior.
If you're still looking for something to comment about, I'm also thinking about starting a list of representative posts in my sidebar. If you have suggestions about posts that seem to represent the blog best, let me know. I'm not always the best judge of my self.
Improvised @ 8:46 AM 
Collective Improvisation:
See? Isn't this cool? You know you want to try it out, because if you don't I'll start begging even more pathetically for your feedback. You don't want that now, do you? Do you? ... Please?
Posted by Caleb
Posted by Caleb
Posted by 
on 12/16/2004 08:40:00 AM : Permalink
I use both sitemeter and a stats package that comes bundled with my paid ISP. Interestingly, sitemeter counts only about half the visits that the ISP's stats program picks up. I can't decide if sitemeter is more aggressive about determining that a given visitor is a bot--or if sitemeter is just plain blind to a lot of my genuine visitors.
I do like the comments hack though; I suspect you will now draw a lot more comments, which I think encourages more people to read the site.
Posted by Jason Kuznicki
I do like the comments hack though; I suspect you will now draw a lot more comments, which I think encourages more people to read the site.
Posted by Jason Kuznicki
Posted by on 12/16/2004 09:13:00 AM : Permalink
Yay!... er, can't think of anything else to say right now. Oh, the Douglass post was fab. When's part II due?
Posted by Sharon
Posted by Sharon
Posted by on 12/16/2004 10:28:00 AM : Permalink
Thanks, Sharon! Part II is in the works. And thanks for the stat counter feedback, Jason: I've also found that Sitemeter reports fewer unique visitors than my Statcounter does, and usually the ones that it misses seem to be flesh-and-blood visitors.
Posted by Caleb
Posted by Caleb
Posted by on 12/16/2004 01:20:00 PM : Permalink
Glad to see we no longer have to go through blogger to post by name. I'd give you more feedback, but I don't have much else to say right now. (Wait, did I just plagiarize Sharon's comment?)
Posted by aj
Posted by aj
Posted by on 12/17/2004 03:05:00 AM : Permalink
help me to hack blogger mail me hemanth.hm@gmail.com
Posted by Hemanth
Posted by Hemanth
Posted by on 7/12/2005 09:52:00 AM : Permalink
