Honestly, I look around at my NYC start-up compatriots, and I get a little bit of blogosenvy. Charlie has nearly 2,000 subscribers, Andrew 400-some, Darren has 300-some, and many others folks have many other readers.
Me, I’ve been on the scene only since last Fall, and launched my own blog in October, but if you check out my G-Analytics or Feedburner stats, I’ve been sitting pretty still for the past few months: about 50 uniques a day and 70ish additional RSS subscribers. Now I am certainly not blogging to be famous — I’d like my actions to speak louder than my words anyway — but I feel like I’m not reaching as many people as I could, and I think reaching many people is a fair objective for anyone in the innovation industry. The walls to bounce your idea off of, the sounder it can be.
However, despite my readership envy, a recent look at my MyBlogLog community made me feel a lot better and reminded me: It’s not “how many” readers you have, it’s “who’s reading” your stuff.
So, in special recognition of the great folks who put up with the garbage I put on my blog, here is a snap-shot and names/links to folks who are showing up to read “innonate” and any given moment:
Thanks y’all! You’re making this fun for me!
Greg Verdino, VP Emerging Channels, Digitas
Ed Costello, tech oldtimer
Leisa Reichelt, UI guru
Kristian Hansen, Cresa Partners and NYC proxy for celeb VC
Andrew Parker, Analyst at USV
Tom Mandel, consultant
Eric Skiff, of Clipmarks and PodCamp fame
Michael Galpert, Worth1000
Ken Berger, web guru, Magnify advisor, and more!
Lee Semel, Innofinity, 10ton, early nextNYer and more
Dave Evans, CEO of Civilnetizen
Charlie O’Donnell, nextNY founder, former USV analyst, product manager for Voki
Darren Herman, founder IGA Worldwide
Sanford Dickert, “web guru and social engineer”
… and more!
UPDATE: some of those more are:
Pierre-Yves Platini, FaberNovel and the Silicon Sentier in Paris (an awesome cafeBricolage-like place!)
Jay Sears, SVP, Strategic Products and Business Development of ContextWeb
Thomas Collardeau, Founder & CEO of Ontheinside.info
Will Meyer, Cruxy.com co-founder
Benjamin Bloom, Strategist at AvenueA-Razorfish
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Kristian Hansen // Jun 12, 2007 at 2:05 am
Nate,
Thanks for the recognition. Its kind of funny to see the names of so many people in our community posted in one place. But, like you said, its those very few who take things so far.
Have a good one in Israel.
Kristian
2 Charlie // Jun 15, 2007 at 7:26 am
Do you have a link rel in your header directing people to the Feedburner feed? People are prob adding the URL to their reader and getting directed to the WP rss or nothing at all… add this to header…
Also, it takes time… and a few viral linkbait posts. I had a small bump for joining USV… about 100, then up to 500 with the Top Ten Tips for Success for building a Successful Web 2.0 app (Aug ‘05, pretty early for that stuff… 1300+ tags), then pretty steadily up for two years + bump when Yahoo and Google started reporting… but clearly 1500 is a tipping point… def growing from there.
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A few things… My blog is on all my e-mail signatures, LinkedIN, too… (Do you use LinkedIn, that much? Gotta use complimentary apps…)
Also, I tend to write about things that I’m talking about all the time or thinking about… so when people bring things up, I can talk in links… IM something to someone and say, “Yeah,I just wrote about that…”
3 Sarah T // Jun 22, 2007 at 6:09 pm
innonate, you’re blog is loved. those sound like great metrics to me. interesting that you have such a high ratio between unique visitors to subscribers. much higher than my own! (more subscribers, less visitors.)
hope you’re having a great trip in israel!
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