Comments on: Times, they’re a changin

By: Larry

Larry — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:20:26 +0000

Help me

By: Marry

Marry — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:26:24 +0000

I love you all!!!

By: Marry

Marry — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:30:56 +0000

slowing down from driving 100 mph to more manageable 65 mph. what has happened is that work load at the magazine has increased and so have some personal commitments. but this doesn’t mean, i won’t be ranting.

By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:48:32 +0000

Oh, thanks! It help me

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 03:57:31 +0000

Om,

Okay, I’d suggest you do one of two things:

1. If you want to do your linkblog in del.icio.us, just install one of the several WordPress plug-ins which will automatically integrate your del.icio.us links into WordPress. Like this one, for example: http://ericanderson.us/projects/delicious-integrator/ This method is nice because it lets you use del.icio.us, which has further benefits, but you will end up with two feeds: your main feed and your linkblog feed.

2. Simply post linkblog posts as normal but categorize them in WordPress as “linkblog” (or something less geeky). Then, you automatically have a feed on your site which you can offer to people if they only want your main entries. My favorite built-in feature of WordPress is the ability to dynamically exclude categories from your feed. See this page for more info on the subject: http://ifelse.co.uk/archives/2005/08/06/feeding-the-masses-using-wordpress/

Cheers!

By: Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:20:55 +0000

You may be interested in my “Don’t Blog” blog, where I occassionally chronicle all the bad things that happen when you blog. http://dijest.com/dontblog

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 00:06:22 +0000

mark,

thanks for the comments. i guess, in that sense i blinked. in many ways today was the first day, and it worked out well. i feel more relaxed already today.

By: Mark Sigal

Mark Sigal — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:35:07 +0000

It’s funny that you blogged on this, Om. I saw Battelle’s mea culpa and I wondered aloud, “How the hell do you find the balance between quality and keeping the blog fresh enough for people to knee jerk to checking throughout the day?”

I struggle with this greatly because my posts tend to run long, which takes a lot of cycles. I definitely prefer the quality over quantity but never sure when it comes to audience mindshare. The bookend to this was a post yesterday on Steve Rubel’s site where it’s clear that his MO is definitely to ensure a certain chunk of volume, which reduces the concentration of the “broth.” (His post was called How Soup Gets Made.)

Maybe the blogosphere is one big game of chicken to see who blinks first. :-)

Keep up the goodness.

By: skibare

skibare — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:01:20 +0000

it aint the Quantity of your Posts that keeps me HERE EVERY SINGLE day, its the QUALITY of all your posts!!! YOU keep on Keeping ON anytime, any day, as much , or as little as you want!!!
Screw the Pundits, FULL BROADBAND SPEED BLOGGING AHEAD!!!

Skibare

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:07:31 +0000

Ab, thanks for the suggestion. that’s a good idea. i will figure out a way. appreciate the kind words.

Thomas, i deeply appreciate your words as well. hopefully i can keep the standards up, to say the least.

By: Ab

Ab — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:45:44 +0000

What you can do with your short posts is that consolidate them into 1 posting and put them at the end of your main page. Call them Om Snippits or something and let the links do the talking in that post. And like I stated before, I love long posts(well researched, of course). I guess, a lot of people agree.

By: Thomas Hirsch

Thomas Hirsch — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:53:56 +0000

I really appreciate your analysis & learn a lot from it. No need for short cross references to news stories or other peoples’ comments. Longer posts with analysis and connections is what I look forward to. There are other bloggers that mindlessly cross reference, when not pumping themselves needlessly. The tech landscape is so fast moving, with a lot of false starts, that expert analysis sorting what’s really important from what’s not is what we need.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:55:48 +0000

Mike, thanks for your kind words. So since you suggest a seperate linkblog feed, how should we implement this. do it via del.icio.us or something? any thoughts.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:54:56 +0000

Don, you have summed up my feelings perfectly. One of the things which i realized was that I was losing perspective on a lot of things I wanted to write because of time constraints. I think one of the beauties of this model is that I can pick up the pace when I want, or slow down, if my readers are all right with it.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:00:27 +0000

I think it’s a good call, Om. I’m a firm believer in the theory that you have X amount of goodness you can provide via a blog. X may be higher for some people than others, but it is constant within the individual. Make one post a day and that post is worth X. Make 20 posts a day and each post is worth X/20. Less posts, as you point out, equal better quality posts. I’m actually to the point where if a source posts more than about 10 or so items per day, they are deleted from my blogroll. This may not be fair, but it keeps things manageable and it greatly reduces the amount of noise in the my newsreader.

One suggestion for you regarding the linkblog feed though: offer a full feed including linkblog and a feed of just your main entries. Although I’d probably subscribe to your linkblog, I don’t subscribe to anyone else’s… just too many notifications for my liking. Please, please, two feeds! :)

By: Don

Don — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:26:16 +0000

Candles are actually pretty cool to make. Not difficult, and a great diversion from technology.

As for dicing an onion, good knives, my man, good knives.

After all, this is just a blip in time, right? It’s the small things away from our obsessions that give perspective.