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3 August 2008 154 Comments

Trolls and Adversity

This evening I spent a large chunk of time surfing through a variety of websited, perusing my feed reader and Googling stories for Green week this week. My perusing led me down a rabbit trail that, honestly, I’ve wanted to talk about but events of recent days now compell me to talk about.

Internet fame is a touchy thing. Some people call internet fame “being an a-lister”. This kind of fame belongs to a subjective selection of blogs that meet certain unexplained criteria for prominence.

Tags: attacks, cyndy aleo-carriera, leslie poston, mark hopkins, mashable, new york times, profy, steve hodson, subculture, triston mcintyre, trolls

15 October 2007 3 Comments

Google Reader Stats Still Pretty Useless

Did you know this blog has only 7 subscribers? Me neither. In facts, I’m solidly in the 800 subscriber range according to all authoritative stats on such things. However, Google Reader is reporting 7 subscribers. Keep in mind that these are subscribers to a feed using Google Reader, so expect some skew. But a 793+ [...]

Tags: Feedburner, feeds, Google Reader, mashable, mike arrington, Robert Scoble, subscriptions