I was pleasantly surprised today to find out that my RSS subscribers number reached 26. It’s been a month since I started this blog and I haven’t been promoting it too vigorously… not yet.

I would like to get to know my readers better. First of all, I’m very curious:
- How did you find out about this blog?
- What attracted you to subscribe to my RSS?
- What are your interests?

I’ve installed a couple of new plugins today to encourage the comments and discussions on my blog. We all know that it’s much more interesting and rewarding to have dialogs rather than monologues:

  • Subscribe to Comments 2.1 plugin: There’s a checkbox in the comment area, if you check it, you’ll get email notification of further comments. This way you can come back and stay engaged in the dialog
  • Show Top Commentators plugin displays the names of Top Commentators (see the sidebar), linked to their website (currently set on monthly basis) and number of comments they have made recently. This should motivate you to comment more and participate in the blog discussions.
  • I’ve also installed Related Entries plugin which currently shows three “related” entries to the post based on keyword matching. This should make it easy to browse my blog and encourage the reading

Look forward to hearing from you all. Thank you, Vivien

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10 Insightful Bits in response to “Getting to know you better”

  1. Shankar Ganesh

    This is ShAnKaR GaNeSh. A 16 year old guy from Tamil Nadu, India.
    My Blog is at http://shankarthetechie.blogspot.com
    I love to surf the internet, learn new technologies, and I would like to pursue a Ph.D. In Computer Science.
    I have forgotten how I came to know about your blog.
    Subscribed to your RSS Feed on first visit.
    Best Wishes to get good PRs from Google!!!

    January 25th, 2007 at 11:55 am

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  2. personal finance advice

    Hope the Top Commentators plugin works for you…please let us know if you have any issues

    January 26th, 2007 at 2:48 am

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  3. Healthy Body

    I was just cruising around reding blogs and found you. I love inspirational posts.

    January 28th, 2007 at 10:42 am

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  4. ibit

    Hi Healthy Body. Welcome to my blog. I see you’ve started your blog on Dec 2006, just like I did :-) Some very useful articles you have there, great job!

    January 28th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

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  5. Simonne

    I just saw one of your comments on another blog, I followed the link and here I am. I’m also a new blogger on the block, I started in August 2006 and I’m very pleased so far with the experience.

    February 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm

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  6. ibit

    Welcome to my blog, Simonne. Thanks for all your comments. You’re now a Top Commentator on my blog, with a link to your site :-)

    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:35 pm

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  7. NITMIX

    I have been looking for the right version of the Top Commentator plugin, is this one the default with the TC on the home page only or it this a modified version of the site wide one, I am a bit confused, sorry.

    I also spent a long time searching under Top Commenter, not often I spell stuff right only to find the name being used is incorrect!

    March 1st, 2008 at 9:54 am

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  8. Vivien

    Hi Nitmix. This is the version of Top Commentator that I use on this blog. Hope this helps.

    March 1st, 2008 at 9:29 pm

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When I'm not blogging, I design web sites, teach, play with my daughter and try to balance family, work, friends and a somewhat active social life on