Due to the publicly known reasons, this blog at wordpress.com
has been not accessible at China for a long time till last Spring
festival (Feb.2006). It’s very difficult for me to update and
manage that blog, while most of my readers from China mainland can
not read it since then. So I decide to move it to a new site with
good performance at China.
Hope you guys can change your bookmark and RSS feeds. I am sorry
for the unconvenience for this move. Thanks for the great pleasure
that WP community gave me.
When we had dinner for CCClub Beijing gathering, I suggest Billy
adding RSS feed to the web site. Billy told me his thinking that
RSS might steal away much pageview of the website and thus lower
the readers' stickiness. I don't think so.
When you prepare to roll out your RSS feed, you must be thinking
those feed readers might won't click to the "original page", so
that your page view will be eroding. It seems to be a
reasonable thinking. But my first question is why you run your web
site? second question is why so many web sites are hurrying
to advertise their RSS feed?
If some of your RSS items always won't bring your subscribers to
further clicking, there might be two reasons: your content is just
not absorbing enough, and the content is just enough at that
moment. For the first case, of course it's not the fault of
readers. You need to better your content or they are not your
reader objectives, ie. wrong subscription without hurt to both
parties. For the second case, you have succeed in getting to
your goal : to broadcast your message, why not further waste your
bandwidth and adding server load. You lose nothing but those
sterile pageviews.
Rather, RSS might bring something good that you overlook. RSS feed
by far ease the accessibility and readibility. As a result, your
message will reach more desktops than just staying at your web
site.
Buddy, just go RSS. It won't steal your page view and erode your
reader stickiness at all. It will do good.
Farewell my lovely
By Verity Stob
Published Tuesday 7th March 2006 10:14 GMT
Stob
And it came to pass that the Sons of Kahn, who dwelt in the
valley of the Scotts, fell yet again upon interesting times. And
their fortune did wax and wane, only with not so much of the
wax.
And they did bring forth a version of Delphi called '2005'.
But the users of Delphi looked upon it with scorn, for it was a
stinker. And they upgradeth not.
And the great and respected leader of the Sons of Kahn, one Daleful
Er, spake unto his people saying: I have a great plan to fix our
troubles.
And the Sons of Kahn spake unto their great and respected
leader, saying: Art thou still here?
And so Daleful Er departed the valley of the Scotts, with
histail fitted in its groove.
Then the remaining Sons of Kahn sat down upon the Dell Yocam
Memorial Sofa and parleyed amongst themselves, for they knew in
their hearts that they did indeed need a great plan.
And then one amongst their number said unto the rest: Let's
change our name to Inprise again. That worked brilliantly last
time.
But the Sons of Kahn heedeth him not, for they perceiveth that
the fellow taketh the pitheth.
And then another amongst their number spake up, saying: Look,
there is a strange mark upon the sofa, upon its very leather.
Whosoever can interpret this mark unto us, he must be our
leader.
And they all gathered around the sofa saying: Eugh, gross; is
that a food stain or what?
And: Methinks 'tis like a weasel.
And: I love the smell of Rorschach in the morning.
