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Analyzing an Experiment in Blogging

February 21, 2009 by Patrick LaForge in Blogging, Social Media

Since October I've been experimenting here with some personal blogging. Why, you might ask, when I already blog at my job? Isn't that a busman's holiday? Perhaps. But I had plunked down money for this domain, and I had some ideas and obsessions to explore that didn't fit in with my work. And I also wanted to conduct a few experiments. When a blog is housed within a major news site, the metrics get hard to sort out. With some great content and breaking news, and a huge built-in audience, it is a simple matter to draw millions of views. (Palafo.com has drawn under 5,000 views in its entire existence, with who knows how many hundreds of those clicks attributable to family and friends.)

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February 21, 2009 /Patrick LaForge
ads, analytics, Blogs, City Room, Coffee!, coho, Cotweet, Facebook, IM, iphone, janky, janky vegetables, Mahalo Answers, Podcast Zeitgeist, podcasts, SEO, Seth Romatelli, traffic, Twitter, Uhh Yeah Dude, Wordpress
Blogging, Social Media
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Jeff Jarvis Asks, What Would Google Do?

November 20, 2008 by Patrick LaForge in Paper & Ink, Social Media

I recently skimmed a galley proof of "What Would Google Do?" by Jeff Jarvis. The book, available from HarperCollins in January, is structured as a series of rules or aphorisms about how Google does business, with some anecdotes from Jarvis about things he has observed in his groundbreaking work as a blogger and media consultant.

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November 20, 2008 /Patrick LaForge
Blogs, Books, computers, data, Facebook, Google, Jeff Jarvis, macs, SEO, technology, Twitter, Web 2-0
Paper & Ink, Social Media
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