Comments on: A Kindred Spirit

By: Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:56:00 +0000

Well Anonymous, You have a point. Now I know what gets people talking, or at least what they are more comfortable commenting on. I get mail directly, not via the comment box, from some, mostly academics (free), students(fresh-faced) and lawyers (not ones that want to sue me, just fellow bloggers…) But as you can see, few are willing to come out in public with views for or against those I have printed. Has something to do with worrying about having a career with a firm or one of their clients. My interests lie elsewhere.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:27:00 +0000

Francine – you seem to be getting a lot more reaction to Blogs that comment on music than your typical Big Four Blogs. Maybe you should refocus your Blog on music.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:44:00 +0000

An extremely rare point of agreement by the vast majority of 3 generations of music fans, is the brilliance and enduring power of Led Zeppelin’s music. The greatest rock band in history is still the most popular and beloved band in the world.

By: Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:07:00 +0000

Dear Christopher,
Your song is good, too. As a Chicago native I love the blues. But "Going to California" has stuck with me all this time and I think of it when I'm sentimental about my early years...

Oh well, thanks for the comment. It's nice to see that a little personality brings out all the passive "feeders".

fm

By: Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:34:00 +0000

Thanks again, Neil. I didn’t realize that the feed stuff won’t show up on StatCounter. If you know about this stuff, I’d like to talk to you more. Please send me an email at ReTheAuditors@gmail.com. I agree that limiting the feed is not in the spirit of blogging, but as someone who wants to publish a book, I need to prove how big and broad an audience I have.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:32:00 +0000

I, too, am subscribed to your RSS feed. Not only that, you have a separate feed just for comments.

Where you're wrong, Francine, is that your song isn't even the best on the album, not even the best on that side. That would be, of course, this one. Can you believe iTunes is still un-Led-ed?

By: neil baker

neil baker — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:12:00 +0000

Francine,

I just posted you a long comment about RSS and Feedburner, but I think it's dissapeared. Sorry. Anyway, keep up the good work,

Neil

By: neil baker

neil baker — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Francine, that’s OK. RSS is really important, and probably how most (or a lot) of people will read your blog. The problem is that it’s hard to keep track of how many visitors you’ve got. Because they don’t have to come to you to read your posts, they won’t show up in your stat counter. I bet you’ve probably got many more readers than you think. One option is to change your Blogger settings so that you limit the amount of each post that goes out in your RSS feed, so that readers have to come to the site to get the rest. There’s a debate over whether providing a limited feed is in the spirit of blogging or not – a decision for you to make. Feedburner does give you good stats on how many people read your news feed – I’m told – but it’s not something I use. Keep up the good work!

By: Francine McKenna

Francine McKenna — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:14:00 +0000

Thanks Neil! I need to look into this and a few other things so I understand full impact and capabilities. I have also been asked to set up a Feedburner process by readers so I can push new posts out to a mailing list.

By: neil

neil — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:32:00 +0000

Francine,

You said: "I still have a lot to learn. I'd better get my little RSS logo asap!"

You are RRS enabled already. I get your blog posts by RSS.