I’d like to hear any subterranean thoughts anyone may be harboring about projects, design, content, strategy, etc…
Mine:
-We’re heading into our third month with a significant amount of momentum. On average, we’ve grown by 1,000 additional visits per month. This month’s growth is due to a combination of factors including the addition of the comment feed on the sidebar, more regular contributions and not insignificantly, the switters/dKos roil. It’s also worth noting that we enjoy a higher quality of visit as measured by visit length and page views, so in that sense we’re well ahead of the curve even though we’re still wet behind the ears.
-I’ve visited IOZ off and on since he began his blog, and I noticed last week his persistence is beginning to pay off. Dawn, those numbers are the reason he left the fray, and they’re also all the proof anyone (including Slate and The_Bell) should need. Regardless, I take IOZ’s success as a good harbinger for wagtheslate. We could do worse than to follow his example and occasionally engage our fellow bloggers.
Monday, October 30, 2006
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I think your current plan - the one that involves undermining BOTF technology [I'm curious about that - is it bribes to Chantay?] and persistent invitations to come on over is working particularly well.
You know, if it aint fixed, don't break it...
Sheesh. This is my lunch hour. I'm going to have to have a little chat with HR if this keeps up.
I do think it might be helpful to hang a little structure on what we do here -- a theme of the week as I was considering putting out there -- give us a little "Breakfast Table" feel. We could advertise the them of the week on BOTF and see if anyone would like to guest blog for the week, if being a regular contributor seems like too much of a burden.
WTS contributors would be encouraged to respond to other psots with blog posts rather than in comments. The Fray has trained us that it is more polite to use responses to reply rather than top posts, but I think WTS would be best served with a somewhat dynamic front page. I think, ideally, posts would only live on the front page for a day or two. Right now, we've got a little less than a week.
Of course, the theme would not be binding.
I really liked that "theme of the week" idea John...I'd even go so far as to make it "theme of the day" instead.
And not always a politics theme, either.
I like John's idea...
Front page fracas...
[grins and wrings hands evilly]
I'd post more posts vs. comments, but I really don't want to push people off the page. Especially for my tripe.
My biggest problem is that I simply can't log into Slate. Even my IE7 work around I posted doesn't work today.
I'm stubborn enough to keep at this, but please understand that I am more than willing to do both things. You're not going to loose me here just because the Fray works again.
I have to say -- it's a mystery why The_Bell continues to post his work on the Fray, I sometimes suspect he's on Slate's payroll to try to boost the level of discourse on the Fray. But that seems unlikelly, given their lack of commitment to the Fray. He puts out a 1000+ word essay pretty much daily -- that's more than many op-ed columnists do in a week. All pretty much for free.
The ghost I can see, as I don't think she has the time to invest in anything requiring more commitment than the Fray.
Maybe he doesn't want a commitment, but it seems odd.
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