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Jan 14
Popular Reader Question
Hello –
As I ramp up the posting frequency on Popular again (hopefully an ongoing trend, though I’ve said THAT before) I realise I have very little idea about a potentially quite important thing.
If you’re a regular (or semi-regular) reader of the blog, how do you find out about new posts? Twitter? Tumblr? Facebook? An RSS feed? Just popping by now and then? Telepathy? Stalking me? I want to make Popular updates easier to find (and encourage new readers in, of course) but to do that I’d like to know about more about how you find them in the first place…
Any responses would be very helpful! Thankyou!
Just by popping by every now and then. Somehow it seems to coincide with new posts rather well.
Always check the website first myself.
Would love something like an email update for future posts though.
I come here each time I get on the computer (usually every day) as a routine. I’m usually on facebook most of the day so updates there are useful for instantly seeing updates. I got bored with twitter after a few weeks and rarely go there nowadays.
I subscribe to the RSS feed like any civilized person.
RSS. The original and still the best.
I mainly use RSS, though I also follow you on Twitter.
Tumblr and general checking in
I used to rely on RSS via Google Reader but since that went down the pan I’ve not found a replacement
I am a website visitor – and like Brendan will usually pop in once a day from my bookmark to see what is going on (more frequently when the conversations are flying). Never used an RSS feed for anything (don’t even know what one is or how it is used) and am not on Tumbler nor Twitter.
RSS via feedly (inferior to Google Reader, it must be said.) Tho in fact it is the RSS feed of the *comments* at Popular that more commonly alerts me to a new post (probably because I subscribe to several hundred feeds, and by definition there is more posts generated on the comments feed than on the main Popular one.)
Great to see the renewed pace of posts btw!
I follow quite a number of blogs and websites, so have to use a feed reader to keep track of them. Since the demise of Google Reader, I use Feedly. If a site doesn’t offer an RSS feed or email notification, I might bookmark it but the chances of me dropping in are slim.
Mainly Tumblr, sometimes just by popping in
Twitter (yours and the FT feed)!
RSS via Feedbin for me – costs $20 a year, quite a bargain.
tumblr, if I don’t see them on twitter first.
Thom tells me on gchat OR Twitter
Usually on my daily visits to the site, but I’ve recently started following you (and Marcello) on Twitter so occasionally find out about new Popular or TPL posts there.
I generally check in once or twice a week or on consecutive days if there appears to be an ongoing thread.
I just pop in, the more that’s happening, the more often.
I check the site at least a couple of times a day if stuff is happening, but I’ve also found out about new posts via Twitter.
Like any sane person I use RSS :-) It means it comes to me instead of me having to seek it out.
[impressed with the resilience of RSS in the post-reader era and glad the comments feed was worth advertising]
Twitter usually, but sometimes I check the site.
(can’t believe you aren’t also asking us for our ages so you can make a chart. 48.)
and your NRS social grades please ;-)
By popping back again and again
“Freaky Trigger” is linked from my blog’s feed, and I usually check for updates on the blog list there.
I think if you’re using Google Reader, then you are probably past the low bar of enough savvy to Google a replacement:) You’d have to have ridden out some choppy waters while various contenders went tits-up, but once you’ve sworn on to RSS, there’s no way back:)
Mind you, my previous solution was just syndicating all tasty-looking RSS feeds into Livejournal:)
By looking in – last year in hope, this year so far in expectation.
RSS in Feedly for me. I should probably do something clever with IFTTT.com so that every time a new post appears, it texts me or prints it on my toast or something. But until then, Feedly is ace.
Check in via a bookmark most days, am occasionally alerted to new entries via Tom’s or FT’s Twitter. Then immediately, excitedly, alert poohugh via GChat.
Old-skool daily checking of bookmark, yo – in desktop and mobile flava. Otherwise I’d miss the new comments…