Posts from April 2004

The second most commented post was also back in the early days of my blog. This shows that even though these posts are long gone from my front page, they are still read and still generating comments.

That day, Sept 26th, i had lunch with my friend Steve Greenberg who owns a record label called S-Curve. He gave me a CD that he was about to put out called The Soul Sessions by Joss Stone.

That night i went home, put the CD on, and was blown away and i wrote this post.

The cool thing is that post was the first thing written on the web about Joss and so very soon after that i started getting a ton of traffic on that post from Google. My post was the first link on the search term “Joss Stone”.

Well that’s changed and my post is now the 129th link on that search term. And The Soul Sessions has gone gold and the album is now the 22nd most popular album on Amazon and has been much higher.

But i still can’t get her cover of the White Stripes “Fell In Love With a Girl” out of my head.

I’ve posted 211 times since i started this blog. I’ve gotten 545 comments. That’s pretty good, but i’d like to see even more comments. I blog mainly for the feedback. Keep it coming.

Of all the 211 posts, the one that has gotten more comments than any other is a throw-away musing on wireless power that i threw out in early October while i was sitting in a technology conference blogging away.

I honestly thought wireless power was in violation of some basic law of physics. But if you read all the comments and assume that a few of the commenters are legit, then you come away with another picture.

Jeff Jarvis and Hugh Macleod think i should switch to Blogads. Maybe i will. I’ve learned all i am going to learn about AdSense. If i can continue to send the checks to The Grameen Foundation, you might start seeing BlogAds here soon.

The wait is over. Nick Denton has launched the much awaited Kinja. What is it? Well it’s an RSS reader for people who don’t know what an RSS reader is, according to Nick.

Thanks to Nick’s generosity, i’ve been playing around with Kinja since Monday and i like its simplicity, design, and recommendations (called Editor’s Digests). I am using it more than NewsGator right now even though i prefer to get my RSS feeds in my email client than on the web.

If you want to see my chosen feeds in Kinja (called My Digest), here they are.

The only thing i don’t like about Kinja so far is that it seems to bunch all the posts from each feed i subscribe to together. I’d prefer to see the posts laid out in order of when they happened like Newsgator does it.

Kinja even got the NY Times to give them some ink today. Well done Kinja. The only thing that kills me is that i’ll miss the launch party in NYC tonight. I am blogging on the road today.