February 2, 2008
I Will Teach You How To Get 10,000+ Bloglines Subscribers
I just noticed that Bloglines has six “Quick Pick” selections under the category “Investor.” (Forbes mysteriously disappeared after I added it this way… odd.) One way to get 10,000+ Bloglines subscribers is obvious: catch the fancy of a staff member who helps select the “Quick Pick” feeds.
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February 2nd, 2008 at 10:34 pm
It’s just another data point of evidence that popularity (in terms of traffic) is uncorrelated to quality (in terms of utility to investors).
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 am
And Betamax was better than VHS.
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 am
Bill: I think the number of Bloglines subscribers is a pretty useful figure… the thing is that the market for stock blogs is so incredibly small that everyone has the same one or two thousand subscribers. “I Will Teach You To Be Rich” has intelligently cast his net much wider and is enjoying his much deserved success.
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Chairman C, You are correct. Headlines rule. I wrote two headlines: “1998 Revisited” or some such, and “Bill Gross is Applying for a New Job” and hits ran off the chart. Scary. But shouldn’t skill and analysis and gratuitous chick beauty compete with everyday asshole journalism?
I make $0.00 per month on my blog, as you have said of your own. So why not say wtf I like?
Cheers!
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Tom D: Skill and analysis and the occasional beauty already compete with everyday asshole journalism … the problem is that the market for skill and analysis is very small, a niche.