A little constructive criticism? Yesterday, I got 8 posts from your feed. Almost every day I get more than one. And that’s fine because most of it is relevant to my interests and high quality (which is why I’m subscribed, of course). But Dilbert mash-ups? Not so much. Consider your audience - probably getting a lot of techno-babble/noise from a lot of different sources. Do you really want Dilbert in there fighting for attention? Cause I don’t really want to give it to him, so it’s a distraction. And, honestly, I am more likely to unsubscribe from feeds that have lots of posts per day if there are regularly posts that have nothing to do with why I subscribed in the first place. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise, great stuff here! Thanks.
Thanks for the comment Rob - it seems some people like them, and some people don’t. Maybe I’ll take them off to a seperate page that doesn’t go into the feed… should be an acceptable comprimise.
[...] has no sense of humour and spoiled the fun for the rest of us made an interesting comment on the July 18th mashup. In short, he found the Dilbert mashup to be a distraction not worthy of his attention, and [...]
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A little constructive criticism? Yesterday, I got 8 posts from your feed. Almost every day I get more than one. And that’s fine because most of it is relevant to my interests and high quality (which is why I’m subscribed, of course). But Dilbert mash-ups? Not so much. Consider your audience - probably getting a lot of techno-babble/noise from a lot of different sources. Do you really want Dilbert in there fighting for attention? Cause I don’t really want to give it to him, so it’s a distraction. And, honestly, I am more likely to unsubscribe from feeds that have lots of posts per day if there are regularly posts that have nothing to do with why I subscribed in the first place. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise, great stuff here! Thanks.
Comment by Rob - July 18, 2008 9:40 am
Thanks for the comment Rob - it seems some people like them, and some people don’t. Maybe I’ll take them off to a seperate page that doesn’t go into the feed… should be an acceptable comprimise.
Comment by Denis Hancock - July 19, 2008 7:34 pm
[...] has no sense of humour and spoiled the fun for the rest of us made an interesting comment on the July 18th mashup. In short, he found the Dilbert mashup to be a distraction not worthy of his attention, and [...]
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