Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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oakwind

oakwind

January 29 2009, 18:48:21 UTC 12 years ago

Thanks for your "this week on" post. I don't tend to bookmark sites anymore as I have too many unorganized ones to be effective. This kind of post lets me go once a week and check them out though if I had any sense I would have thought to sub to the rss feed before this:) something I am going to do right now.

I wish I had your energy, okay similar amount, you need your own energy, so my having it wouldn't be much help to you. At least I get to have some advantage from all your energy because I don't have to do the work to find all the interesting articles you point out. I very much appreciate it.
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ysabetwordsmith

January 29 2009, 19:34:12 UTC 12 years ago

>> This kind of post lets me go once a week and check them out though if I had any sense I would have thought to sub to the rss feed before this:) something I am going to do right now.<<

By all means, subscribe to the RSS feed. (There is one for Hypatia's Hoard of Reviews and another for Gaiatribe: Ideas for a Thinking Planet.) I'm hoping to get some of my LJ friends over to those blogs because LJ folks are more talkative than average.

However, RSS feeds are like the Friends page: you have to remember to check them and it's easy to fall behind. It occurred to me that people might appreciate a weekly list of highlights (the Hoard list is just the reviews, though, not the newsclips there). This seems to reach a different audience than the offsite blogs or the in-LJ RSS feeds, because I see a bump in traffic whenever I post the weeklies. If you miss that post, you can find it in the "blogging" or "review" tags ... hmm, I should probably make a "This Week On" tag too.

Thank you for the feedback! It helps with targeting, when I know what people find to be useful.