Two Things
First, after much stressing, teeth-gnashing and crying, I have decided to switch from Bloglines to Goo.gle reader. Now, the thing that made me do this is that two of my very favorite blogs were not getting the feeds into Bloglines and to quote my husband’s man-crush, Barack Obama, that just won’t do. I honestly had never had a lick of trouble with Bloglines before this, but apparently everyone out there thinks it sucks. See how I love you Beth and Chris?
Um, that just sounded creepy. Sorry about that.
Secondly, going through and moving all my feeds made me do a bit of house cleaning in the blog department. So tell me, at what point do you break up with someone’s blog? In my case, there are a couple blogs I found and have been commenting on for a while now and never once have I gotten a response to my comments or a return visit to my site. I think that’s a bit rude, personally. I try to always reply to new commenters via email if I can (if they’ve left me an email address) and I ALWAYS go visit their site and leave a comment, even if only once, just to say “hi thanks for stopping by!” I mean, these aren’t blogs with massive amounts of traffic so it’s not like it would be that hard. Maybe they don’t really want traffic from others besides people they know, and that’s fine I guess. Or maybe they don’t view the back and forth as part of the fun blog process. In any event, they are out of there. See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya!
Maybe it’s things like that last line that make people not respond to my comments. No, surely not.
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I think a few weeks is sufficient. If you’ve put in the effort to be a good “blog friend” and there is no response, you can keep reading and stop putting in the effort to comment if you like their writing. Or you can just move on.
I’ve also realized that there are some “important” bloggers out there that don’t have the time to respond to everyone and take that into account when I comment on their site.
I use Reader and love it. It’s like an email inbox; so easy to use!
I still read your every post..I just dont comment often. But probably more than you comment on mine but that would be my fault most likely since I blog once a month at best..lol. I think some people are just total blog snobs and dont comment but then others may be like me and I just simply barely have the time to post once a month and its hard to do that and answer comments or they get lost in my email and I have to scroll back a million pages to get to it..ok rambling. Love you though.
If they haven’t posted in a long time, I usually weed them out. Or as you said, if they don’t reciprocate because that sucks.
I still keep my bloglines and google.reader updated. They both have advantages the other doesn’t have, but GR is easier to read.
I don’t know, your last line is exactly why I like to be your friend!!
Google Reader rocks hard. And I, for one, didn’t think that was creepy at all.
I comment on a lot of your shit, so don’t go breaking up with me.
Your feed is really fucked in bloglines too. It’s constantly pulling up old posts as new. You big tease.
You’ll have to let me know how you like google reader. I’m kind of over bloglines, but haven’t made the switch.
I madde the swtich for mostly the same reason(s). And Statia’s right about your feed in Bloglines. I’d forgotten about that when we talked earlier today.
I try to keep the blogs I read only to a minimum, and even at that, I only read every couple of days. See, when I read, I comment. I can’t read and not comment. In fact, I think that’s impossible. So I say - keep the blogs you can’t live without and toss the rest.
Google reader, for the record is the shiznit. Plus, Chris and I think it’s neat. I mean - if Chris thinks it’s cool, OBVIOUSLY it’s cool. And I’m just backing him up in true groupie-like fashion.
Hey - everyone needs a groupie.
I don’t think I was ever on your blogroll so if you break up with me, so to speak, that’s fine.
But stop by when and if you remember to!
I like reading your blog, I just don’t always comment.
Bloglines is making me so crazy! I know they can see my (lovely, perfectly good, totally functioning) feeds, know it for an absolute fact, and yet they just WILL NOT UPDATE. And also, WILL NOT RESPOND TO EMAIL. And honestly, I don’t need this kind of stress in my life.
Sorry, I’m done. Like I said, I hated Google Reader at first, but have come around, and it is much more reliable.