June 6, 2007 9 Comments

Popularity Meme

Number One My friend, Doug Haslam has passed a blog tag meme about popularity, launched by Scotty Monty. The basic question is: what are your most popular blog posts. I wasn’t going to participate. I’ve kind of given up blog tag for the most part, and have let three memes die at my doorstep. But this one seems like a neat way to go back and see what readers/participants of my blog have responded to, and what seemed to catch their interest.

I’m judging this by the comments. Is that a bad way to judge? I have no idea. I don’t keep detailed stats about my blog. It’s not about that. So, with nothing more to say, here are my five most commented on posts of the last several months, as of June 6th:

Lessons Learned:

  1. I’ve learned that when I don’t navel gaze, I get better response.

  2. I’ve learned that people like to hear about ways to empower themselves.
  3. I’ve learned that Twitter ups my comment responses.
  4. I’ve learned that building posts to get conversations makes it better.

As with all blog tag posts, I’m supposed to forward this to five people. I’m tagging:

Happy popularity.

Related posts:

  1. Not Normally a Meme Guy
  2. Small Boxes 06 – Five Things Meme

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  • http://gischeleman.com Doug Haslam

    I’m flattered (Scott should be too) that this meme was Brogan-worthy. I think our navel gazing can benefit our readers, if the posts we highlight our interesting enough. And like I wrote elsewhere, some posts deserve a second chance (though that’s more of the “favorite posts” meme I tacked on to my own response.

  • http://gischeleman.com Doug Haslam

    I’m flattered (Scott should be too) that this meme was Brogan-worthy. I think our navel gazing can benefit our readers, if the posts we highlight our interesting enough. And like I wrote elsewhere, some posts deserve a second chance (though that’s more of the “favorite posts” meme I tacked on to my own response.

  • http://www.graemewatson.blogspot.com Graeme Watson

    It’s quite subjective though, your best posts may not be the most popular, what if the best thing you ever wrote way way back at the beginning of your blogging career?

    Or what if your popularity is not based on your posts but some other factor? Maybe you said something controvertial, stupid or wrong – to illicit a great number of responses.

    Personally, my most popular post was a story about the possabilty of the TV show ‘Futurama’ going back into production. It got linked from a french animation site, 200 reads a day for two or three weeks.

    Since my purpose is blogging is to create a dialogue with local media artists – didn’t really matter so much.

  • http://www.graemewatson.blogspot.com Graeme Watson

    It’s quite subjective though, your best posts may not be the most popular, what if the best thing you ever wrote way way back at the beginning of your blogging career?

    Or what if your popularity is not based on your posts but some other factor? Maybe you said something controvertial, stupid or wrong – to illicit a great number of responses.

    Personally, my most popular post was a story about the possabilty of the TV show ‘Futurama’ going back into production. It got linked from a french animation site, 200 reads a day for two or three weeks.

    Since my purpose is blogging is to create a dialogue with local media artists – didn’t really matter so much.

  • kat

    completely off topic :

    do you do customer service?
    i dealt with crayola today and they were very helpful, prompt and concise
    do you and folks like you have good customer service ?

    cause it matters :)

  • kat

    completely off topic :

    do you do customer service?
    i dealt with crayola today and they were very helpful, prompt and concise
    do you and folks like you have good customer service ?

    cause it matters :)

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  • http://www.scottmonty.com Scott Monty

    I’m honored that you would join in. I typically don’t get involved in too many memes – only the ones that I think would provide value. In this case, I think it provides a double-shot of value:
    1) Value to the blogger, who gets the opportunity to revisit old work and reassess or admire past work in the cold, bare light of the present;
    2) Value to the readers, who get to connect with some great content that can further connect them with the author of that content.

    Thanks for playing along (even if you did call me ‘Scotty’). ;-)

  • http://www.scottmonty.com Scott Monty

    I’m honored that you would join in. I typically don’t get involved in too many memes – only the ones that I think would provide value. In this case, I think it provides a double-shot of value:
    1) Value to the blogger, who gets the opportunity to revisit old work and reassess or admire past work in the cold, bare light of the present;
    2) Value to the readers, who get to connect with some great content that can further connect them with the author of that content.

    Thanks for playing along (even if you did call me ‘Scotty’). ;-)