Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Blog Clutter

I saw a friend had put a Feedburner banner on their blog showing the number of readers they have. I like stuff like that as I am a data junkie. The more data the better. I love that about Bloglines. I have 57 people who have subscribed at one time or another. I don't suspect many of them read on a frequent basis, but it's an interesting number to me for some reason.

I also really like the HitMaps thing at the bottom of this page that I was intrigued by when Stowe put one on his site. There are people in places where I have never been that have read my blog at some time. It could have been the accidental "Next Blog" on Blogger or I might have actually said something interesting somewhere. I am guessing that it's 50/50.

All of this got me to thinking that I have a ton of crap on my blog. I like the Flickr bar, but I think I am going to be using Phlog and Zoto more, or in addition to Flickr. Hmmm. I don't listen to any of the podcasts I have links to other than AMP links, which I am listening more and more to.

I think its a good time for some springtime blog cleaning... Oh that reminds me, those Google Ad words, I think I am up to like $5.93. This one hurts me. Do I eliminate the beer money banner at the top cuz it's really not something I ever plan to make money on, or in a nod to my free hosting it's something I should have because I am a supporter of capitalism? The hard choices in life...

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incomm said...

I think it's very easy to over do it these days with all the widgets out there. I'm trying to pair mine down.. I've got 2 hit counters, flickr badges, feedburner counters, paypal donation options (yeah who's going to give me $$$ that was just a joke).

Anyhow I'm noticing slower load times now, so I think I may start to remove some of the unecessary widgets :)

/WD

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