What makes a blog post popular?

Our friends over at mSpoke posted part 1 in a series about what makes blog posts popular. This is an in-depth look at the factors that contribute to popularity, here Paul is looking at post writing quality and correlation to popularity.

To start, we’ll need a bunch of feed items and measures of popularity [...]

Social Software Notes

Two thoughts.

We’ve been using Yammer but it’s not clear to me what advantages this has over IM and chatrooms, providing you are already using those behind your firewall (we use Jabber). Having said that, Yammer is a very nice UI and the twitter-like desktop and mobile clients are great. It’s possible to have too much [...]

Google Blog Search, Still a Work in Progress

Here’s why the revamped Google Blog Search left me unimpressed:

Just how in the hell are they filtering and organizing content if the top stories in the Business category are from Huffington Post, Autoblog, and Daily Kos (there were 2 Daily Kos top stories, the other below the fold)? First impressions are everything for a product [...]

When Web Services Turn Off

Michael Totten is one of the more successful independent journalists and in addition to advertising revenue he relies on individual subscriptions in order to cover his travel and equipment costs. I had subscribed to his site last year and it wasn’t until he posted this note today that I realized I had not been seeing [...]

Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?

But I doubt most bloggers are trying to be the next Arrington. Most of them just want to support themselves blogging, right? This post reminds me of the phenomenon a few years back as the open source movement was taking off.[From SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?]

I get asked a lot why [...]

What’s Your Social Quotient?

My very good friend Steve Mann put together an interesting methodology for measuring a company’s social media strategy risk and success factor. Very straightforward and objective, but near the end comes something that is not part of the measure yet experience suggests is a major contributor to success in any organization:

I’ve also considered [...]

The A.P. Blogger Wars of 2008-

UPDATE: Here’s an update from the AP on the AP.

If the AP doesn’t want bloggers quoting their stories, why make RSS feeds available?

And insofar as “telling bloggers what is acceptable”… nuh-uh, the AP doesn’t get to define their own set of copyright laws and as any first year law student will tell them, attempting to [...]

Blogs I Like

I clicked on Thomas Hawk’s site recently after far too long an absence, it’s still a kick ass blogs that serves to not only feature his passion - digital photography - but also provide compelling commentary on the tech industry, public policy and other interesting observations.

Hawk is CEO and chief evangelist (redundant titles, I’ve never [...]

Conversations vs. Comments

The issue of comment fragmentation has been rearing up every other week or so since the initial discussion flared up in early April, but of late, I’ve been thinking about the purpose of comments in the first place. When you make a comment on a blog, is it to respond to the blog [...]

The Action Heats Up in Blog Comments

I met up for coffee with Jitendra Gupta and Tedd Corman just a week ago and we talked at length about where they are as a company and the spectrum that includes comment tracking systems (e.g. CoComment) on one end and comment replacement services (e.g. Intense Debate) on the other.

The net takeaway is that blog [...]

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