Comments on: Are You Ready for the Big Show?

By: ccdixon

ccdixon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:25:51 +0000

Me three, even if I don’t always leave a comment.

Great editorial, CM and congratulations.

By: David Jones

David Jones — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:42:36 +0000

It’s an everyday read for me too. I have it in Favourites.

By: C.M. Wilcox

C.M. Wilcox — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:40:51 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations. We’ll do something cool on June 27.

By: Trailer

Trailer — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:21:32 +0000

Congrats on a year of great material! CC is an everyday read for me.

By: Chris D.

Chris D. — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:21:18 +0000

Congrats on making a year! I’m definitely a fan!

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:18:19 +0000

Happy blog birthday. I’ll wish you another one in June. Your blog was a fabulous discovery last year.

I cannot discuss the brilliance of Dann Huff.

By: C.M. Wilcox

C.M. Wilcox — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:04:59 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, David. I’m with you on easing up on the Fake News a bit. In fact, if you look at the numbers, we ran 18 in January, 14 in February, 9 in March, and 7 so far this month, so it’s definitely leveling off. It’s an important feature for me in that it’s the most fun to write and has helped me through a bit of burnout these past few month. If there had been less Fake News, there wouldn’t have been more other stuff… posts would have just been infrequent.

It has also been a good thing in terms of traffic trends, as it seems to have converted more people into regular readers than anything else. I’m all for working on a better mix (an ongoing goal), but I don’t think running ~2 pieces of Fake News per week as part of it is excessive.

Anyway, again, I appreciate the feedback. Thanks for hanging in there with me.

By: David Jones

David Jones — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:20:25 +0000

Happy Anniversary, CM!

If I could be so bold as to suggest something, maybe slow down with Fake News. It’s a great feature, but it was overexposure which killed off Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in the US. In other words, you can have too much of a good thing. The editorials are great (like this one – very interesting) and Sanity Series is good; although it sounds like a name from the past now, it would be nice to see a new one (moaning can be very entertaining!). And Recommendations is also a very promising segment: as we saw with “Musical Discoveries of the Year (So Far)”, hearing yours and other people’s recommendations can be very insightful reading. For instance, I’ve checked out dwightyoakamaccoustic.net since reading your post on it.

Anyway, congratulations on this site’s birthday! Long may it continue!

By: Razor X

Razor X — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:09:42 +0000

Happy birthday and congratulations!!

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