In reviewing my site statistics the other day I see that there are a number of links to me from Bloglines - a site I knew nothing about until then. I signed up for membership to see what it was all about, and found quite a useful little service which inter alia aggregates postings in blogs to which members subscribe. It’s very gratifying that anyone finds the stuff I write here of sufficient merit to subscribe (thanks, Max and Flashparry for your interest). But I can see I’m going to have to be slightly less cavalier about my publishing modus operandi. On the basis that I’m getting only around 150-200 visits a day, I’ve always taken the view that it’s extremely unlikely that anyone’s going to be around when I post - so I tend to do the drafting, then publish it, see what it looks like, tweak it, add some links, remember to change the posting time so that it pops up at lunchtime the next day (which is when I like the posts to go up), and generally mess around with it until either I’m happy with it or bored. The likelihood of anyone seeing the published but still work-in-progress version was low, I thought. But what I hadn’t realised is that this RSS thing means that as soon as I hit “Publish”, if I’m not careful, whatever imperfect first draft I send to the site then gets syndicated to whoever is good enough to be interested.
So apologies to those of you who are getting imperfectly polished posts into your aggregator. I’ll start using the preview functionality rather than editing on the live site.
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I’m looking forward to your perfectly polished posts!
That was a fascinating piece from Anna Fifield you posted briefly a while back — she seems to be a genuinely in thrall to the place, which you’d never know from her usual articles. But then the FT has had a lukewarm attitude to Korea for a long time so I suppose she has to toe the editorial line.
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