Comments on: A Post about Posting

By: Peakah

Peakah — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:34:01 +0000

Awesome post Jo, I jumped on this open trackback bandwagon only recently and have noticed a jump in my TTLB rank… I’d rather that rank went up due more to my writing than how much time I spend finding other posts to link to, particularly open posts…

*shrug* The lil blog-o-sphere seems to be transforming from a baby to a toddler on wobbly legs, or perhaps that’s just my evolvement in this whacky system.

Thanks for the heartfelt post! (I can’t believe I didn’t have you in my list of “sistah’s from other mistahs” My mistake! Consider it fixed…

Keep up the great work Jo!

By: Jake Jacobsen

Jake Jacobsen — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 05:35:24 +0000

I admit to sometimes just buzzing through and doing a trackback, just because it’s so time intensive. I do try to stop in a couple times a week though and see what’s shakin’ at the cafe.

Thanks for doing this and thanks for the wonderful writing you do it is appreciated.

Jake

By: The Real Ugly American

The Real Ugly American — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:38:55 +0000

Open Trackbacks and TTLB ecosystem / Open Track Back!A

Forgive me for speaking for the rest of you and please correct me if I am wrong. The reason we participate in Open Trackbacks is to drive readers to our sites. Yes we do this because we love it but we also want folks to read our fantastic, insightful, …

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:20:29 +0000

Just wanted to say I did read the whole thing, and went to read James at UpStated. And I really do support the troops. But I don’t have much of an opinion on the TTLB thing because it doesn’t really affect me directly. I can’t put up the sitemeter thing so I’m doomed to stay an Insignificant Microbe forever. Advantage being I will never suffer from illusions of grandeur in the blogosphere.

By: Jack Yoest

Jack Yoest — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:17:27 +0000

The First Clue in Character: Is Bob Woodward Wayward?

If a manager was going to make a new hire, there would be a number of reference checks. But there is one kind of background check easy to do and often overlooked. And the candidate himself is the source….

By: David

David — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:59:23 +0000

Just a passing insomniac thought:

I wonder what the delta is on hits TTLB has gotten outa this flap? And links? heh

All stats stuff is game-playing. Hits? Dailykos has 5X the traffic Instapundit does. Powerline has within an ace’s reach of Dailykos’ links, but about 1/9 the traffic.

So? It’s all nonsense at the level that reports.

What counts is

1.) what are you saying
2.) does it reach your target audience?
3.) do they come back for more because you are authentic or because you tell them what they want to hear?

I’ve stated my purpose clearly and perma-posted it. I don’t care if my honest comments are hated or loved, ridiculed or praised. I say what I say.

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:08:48 +0000

The Anonymous Open Post

Jo’s Cafe has a Post About Posting that every blogger should read (but few will)

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:06:24 +0000

Thanksgiving Pizza

Let’s start with the Thanksgiving turkey. What a trick to play on working women. When I was a boy, my mother woke at 4:45 a.m. every day to walk to work. Along comes Thanksgiving and a day off. Some day off. Sleep in ’til 6 o’clock only to stick you…

By: ginasrantings

ginasrantings — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 21:48:17 +0000

tlb has high rankings cause we all link to him , wonder what will happen if we all delinked him , is there anyone out there that is computer savvy to do our own version of rankings , hey until now he has not competition , maybe that is what he needs ..

By: third world county

third world county — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:15:35 +0000

Jo’s Cafe: QOTD

THE Quote of the Day is from Jo’s Cafe referring to the flap about N.Z. Bear’s arcane and idiosyncratic ranking system, “spam” filtration, etc. Jo hits the nail on the head and then clenches it tight…