{"id":521,"date":"2007-02-06T22:18:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2007-02-06T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:18:55","slug":"keeping-the-me-in-metrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2007\/02\/06\/keeping-the-me-in-metrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the \u201cme\u201d in metrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really interested in talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2007\/01\/high_resolution.html\">Seth Godin&#8217;s blog about &#8220;High resolution mistakes&#8221;<\/a>, and how concern about metrics, and drawing the Digg crowd (or blogging for popularity in general), can ruin what might otherwise be an entertaining, personal blog.  I mean, if you can write, you can write, and you can find stories in your life that are interesting.  Following the cookie cutter model to popular blogging means you&#8217;ll just end up with another robotic technopolisci blog among thousands.  I like his list of &#8220;common metrics&#8221;, and their possible real points, but to me the crux of his article lies here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are literally millions of bloggers that have become so focused on measurable traffic that they end up posting nonsense designed to do nothing but attract a Digg. Look back at a blog like that a month later and it appears to be a series of gimmicks, all designed to maximize a metric that&#8217;s almost totally irrelevant to what the blogger set out to do in the first place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wanted to be popular once.  Thankfully, these days I just want to be me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really interested in talking about Seth Godin&#8217;s blog about &#8220;High resolution mistakes&#8221;, and how concern about metrics, and drawing the Digg crowd (or blogging for popularity in general), can ruin what might otherwise be an entertaining, personal blog. I mean, if you can write, you can write, and you can find stories in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}