Comments on: Hello? Bloggernacle? Is anyone out there?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:09:22 +0000

Oh, MA is significant, but most of our traffic comes from sources other than the MA (nearly 70% from Google for example).

Thanks on the mobile site. Itâ€s actually a plugin someone else developed. I have been very please with it. I think every Wordpress blog should install it.

By: Johnna

Johnna — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:10:01 +0000

I'm spending less time on the web in general.

You've mentioned before that you don't think the archipelago is a significant traffic source. But I wonder if you have other readers like me who sometimes type your URL and sometimes come thru an aggregator. MA reminds me your still here when I haven't come visiting for awhile.

I used to like to argue with that commenter with the funny name. Man he really did get my goat.

I missed the torture discussion but fwiw I'm against torture.

This is my first time visiting the site on my phone. Kim the mobile site design is fAb. Lovely and works great

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:18:03 +0000

Kim,

Haha. no, i went back into your archives and found the last post I commented on. It was in October 2006, I think, about the use of torture. I remember previous to that I had commented here and there on a wide range of things. I'm just saying that was the last thing I had commented on.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:55:38 +0000

Hah! Or maybe my whining about it is torture.

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:39:13 +0000

Maybe Dan is being metaphorical and the discussion itself is torture. Maybe that is the problem.:)

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:34:26 +0000

Dan, we discuss a lot more than torture here.

By: Chris H.

Chris H. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:18:59 +0000

Kim,

(#11)"I'm not trying to get more comments"

I realize that. I think that many of us blog not to rack up comments but because we enjoy the discussion, discourse, and interaction.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:05:02 +0000

Kim,

I used to comment back in 2006. Can't remember why I stopped.... just looked back at your archives. I remember why I stopped. Because most if not all your commentators thought torture was okay and they just couldn't see how awful it was. Maybe things have changed since then, but I doubt it.

By: Jessica Solomon

Jessica Solomon — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:53:06 +0000

This is my first comment here.

Kim, I can empathize with you. When people stop visiting your blog, or visit without comment, I can be frustrating. Maybe this is just a cycle. Maybe you just need a way to find a way to encourage more comments. Another likely possibility is that many people are using news readers these days.

Have you thought of offering to be a guest poster on other blogs in the Bloggernacle? That exposure may bring you more comments.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:22:34 +0000

Thanks for that, Jack Mormon.

You may be right; although, many of the people who used to comment here still comment at the same places they did back when they commented here. While there may be more blogs, they seem to still find time to visit most of their old hangouts.