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No More Metrics
If you read this blog on its physical website (as opposed to via RSS), you’ll have noticed three things that are now gone - the Technorati authority counter, the Whos.amung.us widget, and the feedburner subscriber-counter.
At the core of their removal is a response to the new years meme that’s been swirling about: that writing for traffic or links (from other bloggers, techmeme, etc.) is a bad thing. I tend to agree. Its easy to get sucked into the habit of seeing what’s on techmeme and writing about it: it provides a quick, gratifying traffic fix, followed by an equally gratifying spike in RSS subscribers. Its addictive and habit forming, and as many have remarked, leads to “me-too” posts that ultimately do more to drive traffic than to further conversation.
So - I’ve removed all of my traffic indicators. The hope is that it will help focus my attention on writing about the things that I really care about, as opposed to what the meme-of-the-day is - and traffic be damned. If traffic drops, I’d rather find out that I’m uninteresting sooner vs. extending some degree of artificial popularity.
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Very nice. I’m getting tired of me-too posts… however, if you have an opinion on something thats being talked about, it’s probably better to post that opinion on your own blog than to fill up a comment thread with a giant, well written response. Right?
FWIW, I’d say if you’ve got something to say in response to a post, it should go in that posts comments. One’s blog can certainly be a place to continue a discussion in many circumstances, but I’d say in most cases its an arm’s length response compared to the immediacy of comments. Just my $0.02!