November 30th,2006

Aaron on Techmeme

By Mark

Aaron’s review of FeedBurner has popped up on Techmeme.com, which tracks the biggest stories in the high-tech industry. It’s not too surprising given the number of comments on his blog, as well as Feedburner’s strong growth in recent months - fueled, in part, by b5media. Congrats, Aaron.

The Conversation

Dan Macrina on November 30th, 2006 at 16:45

The number of comments on his blog? Let’s take a look at the entry and the response it got, as of 4:30pm eastern it has 16 total responses. Four of those responses are Trackbacks, and out of those four only one was from a site that is not run by a b5media co-founder. So that leaves us with 12 total comments, but out of those 12 comments posted, two of them are written by Aaron himself and one was written by you, Mark Evans, leaving a total of 9 comments and 1 trackback that wasn’t written by the echo chamber crew.

Posts like these make b5media sound desperate for any type of attention, where anything happening in your world is “news” that should be announced from the hilltops. Since taking funding all your blog posts sound cold and unfeeling, unfriendly, and have the smack of stiff-necked corporate culture attached. In addition to that, a co-founder of the company was let go and legally forced to keep his mouth shut. I have no clue what is going on with b5media now but I don’t like it at all, you guys have definitely changed, and it’s not for the better.

Aaron Brazell on November 30th, 2006 at 20:27

Come on, Dan. Is any publicity bad publicity? Personally, I’m pretty happy with the response (100+ new subscribers) and the response in the broader blogosphere. Anytime any one of our blogs gets Dugg, Slashdotted or in my case Techmeme’d it’s a big day.

It sounds more like you have sour grapes.

Scrivs on November 30th, 2006 at 21:01

Hey guys,

First congrats. I have a question about FeedBurner more than anything since my geek curiousity is piqued here. How can you tell you got 100 new subscribers because of this? Are you going by what FeedBurner is telling you because on any given day it might tell me I’m losing 200 people or gaining 200. I’m just checking to see if you got some programming voodoo going on back there because I think that would be a cool thing to have.

Aaron Brazell on December 2nd, 2006 at 09:56

I’d say it’s 50 extra subscribers. I’m going by what FB says and it was up 150 on the day after being Techmeme’d. 3 days later it’s still 50 higher so I’d say those numbers have settled.

Anyways - listened to ScrivsTyme…

Scrivs on December 2nd, 2006 at 16:49

But that’s what I’m saying about FB Aaron. Yesterday on Wisdump the numbers showed 4400k+, but the day before 5500 and who knows what it will show Monday and Tuesday. FB’s numbers never settle so I was just wondering if you had a better tool for measuring new subscribers. Guess one doesn’t exist.

Anyways - listened to ScrivsTyme…

Ah glad you did, I’m sure of all the people out there you can appreciate the constructive feedback that we left. We understand VC money causes some change, but we just saw some things we though could be improved. Be interested to hear what you think.

Kris Karkoski on December 3rd, 2006 at 18:01

From the way I read it it was overall comments on the blog, not just on this specific post. The post has been discussed on numerous other blogs so it is no surprise to me that it appeared on the site. Congrats on the plug on techmeme too!

Kim on January 20th, 2007 at 01:03

Aaron, congratulations on the PR!

Kim.
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