Comments on: 370. The future of science blogs http://www.nonequilibrium.net/future-science-blogs/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed For physicts by physicists Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: NEQNET: Last two weeks of April | NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena http://www.nonequilibrium.net/future-science-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-8266 NEQNET: Last two weeks of April | NEQNET: Non-equilibrium Phenomena Sat, 02 May 2009 19:43:04 +0000 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/?p=3426#comment-8266 [...] The future of science blogs, where I ask you, my good readers, whether NEQNET should join some blog portal or not. Your answer [...] [...] The future of science blogs, where I ask you, my good readers, whether NEQNET should join some blog portal or not. Your answer [...]

]]> By: Dmitry http://www.nonequilibrium.net/future-science-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-8132 Dmitry Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:09:17 +0000 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/?p=3426#comment-8132 Dear Javier, <blockquote>Obvious nonimportant reasons aside (the average reader not always is going to like the smarter content)the reason seemed to be related to the ability to belong to ?social network?. That doesn't necessarily means to be in a blog portal.</blockquote> Actually, I have pretty decent Twitter (around 800 people right now) and Facebook (about 300 friends) base. What I've found is that contribution from social networks does lift your traffic but not nearly as effectively as larger number of content. <blockquote>You mention blogs with 50 posts daily, who in hell has time to read them?</blockquote> The point is that you read what you like but somebody else who visits the blog will also find what she likes among those 50 daily posts :-) Think for example about traffic that comes from Google - if you have more indexed content, Google will send more visitors to your blog. But increasing the number of posts you do can loose some loyal readers, that's true (an observed effect mentioned somewhere). In overall, though, the traffic will be increased because of new people visiting your site - check out top 10 technorati blogs and how many posts per day do they publish. <blockquote>Anyway, I guess that if you would decide to change your blog to a blogportal I believe that you will not have any problem in getting good offers</blockquote> Right now I don't have an intention to do so... ;-) Cheers and thanks for dropping by, Dmitry. Dear Javier,

Obvious nonimportant reasons aside (the average reader not always is going to like the smarter content)the reason seemed to be related to the ability to belong to ?social network?. That doesn’t necessarily means to be in a blog portal.

Actually, I have pretty decent Twitter (around 800 people right now) and Facebook (about 300 friends) base. What I’ve found is that contribution from social networks does lift your traffic but not nearly as effectively as larger number of content.

You mention blogs with 50 posts daily, who in hell has time to read them?

The point is that you read what you like but somebody else who visits the blog will also find what she likes among those 50 daily posts :-) Think for example about traffic that comes from Google – if you have more indexed content, Google will send more visitors to your blog. But increasing the number of posts you do can loose some loyal readers, that’s true (an observed effect mentioned somewhere). In overall, though, the traffic will be increased because of new people visiting your site – check out top 10 technorati blogs and how many posts per day do they publish.

Anyway, I guess that if you would decide to change your blog to a blogportal I believe that you will not have any problem in getting good offers

Right now I don’t have an intention to do so… ;-)

Cheers and thanks for dropping by,
Dmitry.

]]> By: Javier http://www.nonequilibrium.net/future-science-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-8130 Javier Sun, 26 Apr 2009 08:01:55 +0000 http://www.nonequilibrium.net/?p=3426#comment-8130 I read recently (sorry, I don?t remember where), that the success of a blog doesn?t depends in the number (not even the quality) of posts. Obvious nonimportant reasons aside (the average reader not always is going to like the smarter content)the reason seemed to be related to the ability to belong to "social network". That doesn?t necessarily means to be in a blog portal. It is something more like "if you post comments in my blog I?ll post them in yours and I?ll link your blog so you will have more readers). Also it is useful if in your blog there are interesting links. Specially if hey are RSS links. Think, for example, of the U-duality blog. It has RSS to arxiv last articles (I copied it) and also an RSS to most recent comments in some selected blogs (I didn' copy it because , well, I would feel some shame if I would do so xD) About the number of posts per day that you mention my opinion is that you wouldn?t worry too much. Too many posts daily can be contraproducent. Specially if they are serially depending some of them. In your blog you have many interesting posts that I would like to read some serialized(for example the series of turbulence) and other ones unserialized, but simply I have no time to read all the posts of your blog. That is a bad thing for your serialized posts because I can?t read (or I shouldn?t) read the last ones without reading the previous. That is, you have, for my particular free time, far enough rhythm of publication. You mention blogs with 50 posts daily, who in hell has time to read them? And if you begin to loose too posts you can ending losing the interest in a blog. Anyway, I guess that if you would decide to change your blog to a blogportal I believe that you will not have any problem in getting good offers ;-). I read recently (sorry, I don?t remember where), that the success of a blog doesn?t depends in the number (not even the quality) of posts.

Obvious nonimportant reasons aside (the average reader not always is going to like the smarter content)the reason seemed to be related to the ability to belong to “social network”. That doesn?t necessarily means to be in a blog portal. It is something more like “if you post comments in my blog I?ll post them in yours and I?ll link your blog so you will have more readers).

Also it is useful if in your blog there are interesting links. Specially if hey are RSS links. Think, for example, of the U-duality blog. It has RSS to arxiv last articles (I copied it) and also an RSS to most recent comments in some selected blogs (I didn’ copy it because , well, I would feel some shame if I would do so xD)

About the number of posts per day that you mention my opinion is that you wouldn?t worry too much. Too many posts daily can be contraproducent. Specially if they are serially depending some of them. In your blog you have many interesting posts that I would like to read some serialized(for example the series of turbulence) and other ones unserialized, but simply I have no time to read all the posts of your blog. That is a bad thing for your serialized posts because I can?t read (or I shouldn?t) read the last ones without reading the previous.

That is, you have, for my particular free time, far enough rhythm of publication. You mention blogs with 50 posts daily, who in hell has time to read them? And if you begin to loose too posts you can ending losing the interest in a blog.

Anyway, I guess that if you would decide to change your blog to a blogportal I believe that you will not have any problem in getting good offers ;-) .

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