October 22, 2004

Woe to ye that blogs just before JD ;)

I'm a poet and I don't even... ahem.. Is it just me or is anybody else posting something to their blog, and you go to check the agg's a bit later to see some click counts, pop into the goog and your post is like... half way down the page, and the only thing from the top to wherever your post is, is JD's posts? And you're thinking, "daaaammmnnn, if only I'd have posted like 15 mins later"...

One of these days I'm going to match JD and the macromedia technote team and stick on my Ultra-Blogging Cap (patent pending) and lay down the juice with some ultra-bloggining and post so much that I'll fill up the goog. And I'll time it right after one of the above posts ;)

:: note to self :: - it's just a blog dude :p - ::

Posted by Graeme at October 22, 2004 02:35 PM
　



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Typically, blogging at 2pm Pacific Time is ripe for competition with him; sometimes he'll blog around 5:00pm Pacific Time as well. If you can avoid those times, you'll end up above him as he'll only add about 1 or 2 more posts as an afterthought.

Aggregators need to have a webservice, that could be potentially paid for, to put you above post floods, that way, it's not a chaotic grouping, but is still tied to time of actual post, not favoritism.

Posted by: JesterXL at October 23, 2004 01:45 AM

Sorry, yeah, me bad... as Jesse points out I'm on the US west coast, and by late afternoon here worldwide traffic has usually declined... I try to fit the gap before folks on the other side of the Pacific get going, but we're all variable enough so that it doesn't always work.... :(

If it's of help, then the categorized feeds on some serverside aggregators can help avoid the short-item posters like me...?

jd/mm

Posted by: John Dowdell at October 23, 2004 09:10 AM

Thanks Jesse, I'll have to keep that in mind, but I figure too that if the article is interesting enough it doesn't matter if it's at the top or not.

JD, no problem at all :) I meant it in jest really so I hope you didn't take it as frustration towards yourself.

Posted by: Graeme at October 23, 2004 12:47 PM