@John Yes I like the idea of being able to just subscribe to the top posts from sites that are post a lot. Thanks for telling me about the add-on. I don’t know about you but I find that the Shared Google reader is also a good way of filtering posts.

@Ann “From your post, it looks like it would be useful for analyzing one blog, but not a readers worth of blog entries.” Not sure if I understand.

I’ve not looked at my “how to” articles to see if there is traffic coming from Google – should have thought of that. But it is interesting to see that sometimes posts with low comments have high bookmarking.

@Melanie I really love all the different aspects of AidRSS and it defintitely provides a different view of how people interact with your blog. Glad you like my overview and look forward to further changes you make to AidRSS.

@Doug Glad you like the link. You have me thinking about the types of blog posts. We could add to that – there is also announcement posts, fund raising posts etc. Might be an interesting topic for a blog post on the different types of posts and what they are trying to achieve.

Information posts are interesting since you want to provide adequate information but you would also like to still achieve interaction with your readers. I try to leave questions at the end asking readers to share their thoughts of how they use or suggestions for other ways.

Conversation starters are interesting posts because they can be written many ways but some methods work better than others. I like Chris Brogan post that was one sentence but achieved 68 comments. Now that is skill.

@Ken I know that Edublogger likes to dominate so I’m glad you found my personal blog. I think you are correct tools like AidRSS are for the more experienced blogger which is why I posted it on this blog. Have fun poking around with it.

Thanks for directing me to this post!

I didn’t find this when I was on the Challenge for a number of reasons. One was that I had The Edublogger in my RSS (as your blog site) and I hadn’t found this site at that time. Even if I’d come across it I doubt whether I’d have understood what it was all about, since I’d been blogging for only a couple of weeks or so.

AideRSS certainly gives some useful data for thought. I’ll be poking about with it, you betcha.

Ka kite

I’ve noticed that there are, in essence, two types of blog post:

1. Those that provide information to readers.
2. Those that serve as conversation-starters.

It’s the second type of blog posts that get the most comments, but that doesn’t mean that the first type aren’t actually the most valuable.

Can I also point out the (fairly obvious) fact that if everyone did this then the whole system it’s predicated upon would collapse. Everyone would be waiting for everyone else to comment!

Great overview on AideRSS functionality. The work pertaining to blogger interaction management is certainly the stuff I find most fascinating. As you note, you can see not just what gets traction, but where, and what types of posts are recorded/discussed on which platforms. Great web culture analysis.

Beyond managing your own feed, of course, we’ve integrated with Google Reader, NewsGator, Trawlr and whatnot to manage all RSS subscriptions. And we’ve got some really cool stuff coming down the pipes. Stay tuned!

I have my blog in StatCounter and FeedBurner. I have a Google Analytics account from years ago, but have never really used it on my blog. One of the truly fun parts of blogging is taking the time to analyze how people use the information on my blog. I’ve found the same correlation that you mention. When I ask a question I receive many more comments. When I post “how to” type articles, I find people arrive at the posts via Google searches for a topic.

It is always interesting to have another tool to test for my tool belt.
Ann