For the time being, I have placed a list of about 20 sites that will add your blog to their directory and/or syndicate your feed. I was actually talking to David a few days ago and at the time concluded that I could use the 25 blog syndication sites as 'intellectual property' for Collectrix. That is, my list could help promote their blog and I would keep it as a 'secret' to add yet another reason someone would want to be hosted by us.
Well, I've changed my mind about that. Firstly, because many of the sites require you to put specific personal information like: birthday, gender, topic & location. I really have no desire to pry or seem like I'm prying into the lives of potential or current clients, so I wouldn't ask them that information. Several of the links also ask for 'keywords.' Despite the best efforts of Collectrix to build a community of bloggers around particular topics (like Aggie's, libertarians, Anime, etc.), I would have very little information to place into these particular keyword sections for clients – simply because I would not know exactly what the blogger will write about.
Yes, I could write some sort of script in Perl (actually, I'd get Jason to do that) but in the end, sufficiently answering the selected syndication sites would require more information than I am comfortable gathering from clients.
So, I put most of the ones I've found on the right under "Blog Syndication" -- there are a few more under "Links" too.
Also, for those that were wondering where I was for the better part of the day, my router decided to turn off. I ended up calling SBC to find out what the deal was, they didn't know so they sent out a repair crew. The repair crew didn't know what was wrong but blamed the router for all the mess. They didn't bother looking at it or resetting it. So after they left I did what any Curious George would do and reset it. Guess what? Yea, it worked. What a waste of time. And no, when I moved into the current abode I was not informed of what switches/routers/modems were being used, I just plugged in and went from there. All is good now, thank the Internet gods and their minions: the microwave oven.
Posted by Tim at April 3, 2003 04:38 PM | TrackBack