June 22, 2004

  • Every now and then, I experiment/innovate with Xanga.  


     


    Some innovations were joyous community successes.  Does anyone remember BlogChat? How about the community Groupboard where all could interactively draw and save drawings?  How about the times when I’ve taken my webcam mobile (satellite) and live with a laptop server to broadcast back to Xanga from a birthday party, or Dreamland cemetery, or while driving down the highway—(with toreibjo up in Norway commenting live interactively back “turn right!”  “turn left there!”) ?  Or how about the access to the ‘God’ blog where anyone could log in and post to ‘God’ from my post without needing a password?  Do you recall the “2002 Xanga Blog of the Year” spoof where I decreed a “Contest” and then used a scriptlet to incorporate every reader’s own blog as “the Winner” heh. some believed).


     


    Ah! Reminisces……………………………suck.


     


    Some experiments I have and continue to conduct behind the scenes.


     


    I probe. I tempt.  I push.  I pull Xanga this way and that.


     


    I can’t discuss everything.  Because…well, just because.


     


    Anyhow…Yesterday I did a little innocuous experiment that I periodically undertake: I grabbed the first 14 names on the Newly Updated list, subscribed to them and left a comment regardless of their content’s merit.  You know, there are some really lonely blogs out there yearning to be discovered.  Anyway, of the 14, 5 immediately commented back—about 36%.  That compares with about 25% of my "regular" subscribers who typcially find there way back to me after I comment on their posts. 


     


    Is it the novelty that attracts?  The “who the fuck is this 'notforprophet'?” versus the “oh yeah, it’s him again” syndrome?


     


    Yeah, that’s it.


     


    Well then, it’s time to do some shaking up around here, damn it.   Going to shake things up real soon.


     


    *punches out the computer screen*


     


    There.

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