Tag Archives: feedburner

Say what you mean and mean what you say

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

There is a joke about how women behave to different situations. When a man asks a woman what is wrong, she’ll say “fine” or imply everything is okay when in truth, she has something on her mind. Many times the man knows she’s not fine but there isn’t anything he can do. It doesn’t mean [...]

Pageflakes, FeedBurner, accuracy in stats

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

**Read the update at the bottom***
BoingBoing is questioning their RSS stats provided by FeedBurner:
We frankly don’t believe that nearly two million folks have decided to subscribe to BoingBoing via this relatively new service, and we suspect someone (or more specifically, somebot) is taking advantage of the service for some kind of spammy reasons. We’re looking [...]

Rule #6: Reader information is gold, be responsible with it

Posted on May 25th, 2006 by Tyme White in Business

Deceive: To accept as true or valid what is false or invalid
Hard to believe that bloggers do this all the time. Not intentionally; bloggers many times do not put themselves in the shoes of their readers. A loyal readership requires trust and trust can only be built minus deceit. Let me blunt: bloggers [...]

Tyme's thoughts: Blogroll cleanup

Posted on May 28th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

It’s ironic that Robert Scoble made his post today because for the past couple of days I’ve been struggling with my blogroll. I made some decisions and WOW is it making life easier.
1) I put all FeedBurner feeds in their own category. If FB goes down, I can ignore that folder.
2) I put all link [...]

Tyme’s thoughts: Blogroll cleanup

Posted on May 28th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

It’s ironic that Robert Scoble made his post today because for the past couple of days I’ve been struggling with my blogroll. I made some decisions and WOW is it making life easier.
1) I put all FeedBurner feeds in their own category. If FB goes down, I can ignore that folder.
2) I put all link [...]

Identify your blog, or get tossed

Posted on April 19th, 2005 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I’m in the process of redoing my blogroll. I had to reformat my hard drive (which made me lose my current blogroll). Thankfully I had a copy from mid-march so I’m not too far behind. I’ve mentioned I have a large blogroll and once it hits over 2000 feeds things start to go nuts. I [...]