I find it odd that those posts which I consider most worthwhile are often the ones that attract the least comment, and do not get linked to anywhere else. It would be good if there was a simple way for readers to just mark how interesting they find a post, rather than having to comment.
Anyway, a blog like one is just as much use to myself in terms of keeping track of articles and thoughts as it is a popularity exercise. But it would be nice to have a better idea about what sort of posts I make that have the most interest to most people.
I must go over to Catallaxy and read the recent reader's analysis post. I haven't got around to that yet...
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There are some blog skins that include "rate this post" - you've probably seen them, with little stars at the bottom of the post, and readers, I assume, can click to rate.
It would be a reasonable proxy of "useful & interesting", I suppose.
But, you'd have to be using that particular blog set-up.
Otherwise, you can always put in a monthly poll, or something, with a pic list of gemeroc topics to ask what people like reading about, or you could be more specific and ask "which of the following posts did you find the most interesting / funny / educational / useful, and so on, during the last week? You could do polls on a whole range of angles, to build up a picture of what readers enjoy on your site.
Poll tools are free, although some are better than others, and you could put it in your right navigation side bar.
Can't think of any other suggestions right now.
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