Feb 12, 2008
Due to EntreCard employees and/or top users acting like little shits in the comments to this post about similar-but-less–of-a-pita competitor Spottt, Arrington has now banned at least one user from commenting and appears to have all comments containing "entrecard" exiled to the depths of a moderation queue (which my own response was relegated to for a while, but obviously rang of pure and unbiased truth and was approved).
Don’t get me wrong, despite today’s public display of immaturity, I have nothing against EntreCard. They are pretty damn useful for people who have some spare time and don’t mind exploring lots of blogs. And right now, that’s just not me.
So how did my EntreCard experiment go? Here’s a screenshot of my stats:
I visited 151 sites, received 161 clicks (18 of which were from my paid ads), and sent out 45 clicks to other sites. I have seen an increase in comments, but mostly on my EntreCard related posts. My EC worth has been going up faster after moving from the more densely populated Internet category to Fashion (making tech "look good"…hey, it could work), but I don’t want to position myself that way other than experimentally.
Verdict: You get out what you put in, and my time is now more scarce than my money.
Feb 8, 2008
Today I decided that having a perfectly accurate timeline in my flickr photostream really doesn’t matter as much as I originally thought it did. I’ve got thousands of future sets on my hard drive that aren’t completely finished (like umm, Defcon 15), but many of them are ready to upload. I couldn’t think of any real gain to sit on them, and I actually ended up realizing that it’s better not to upload giant sets at once.
Think about it…after receiving a notification that you’ve uploaded new photos, people only have so much attention before they’re forced to focus on other tasks. No matter how awesome each shot is in your 500 image set, most contacts will be overwhelmed by the amount of content you just threw at them. Uploading fewer images at once gives people more time to actually notice and absorb your work, which will increase the number of individual views and comments.
So what’s the "magic upload number"? I’ve got my photostream set up for small images + sets, which puts 16 images per page. Right now I’m aiming for 20-25, which gives me plenty of leeway to experiment in the 1 - 2 pages range.
Feb 5, 2008
![This is the third search result for evil businessman, btw. =]](http://www.sophistechate.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/evil-businessman-21.png)
Some feed readers and Google search results display the embedded CSS used in Flickr’s Blog This feature as plain text, obscuring the real content of your post (embedded CSS should be in <head> anyway). Pull it out of Flickr’s blog layout settings and save it in your proper CSS file to boost your validation and SEO karma.
