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Disqus

Posted on May 31st, 2008 by megalar

I’ve added Disqus to [XILED]

My main reason for adding it was that I’ve decided on this go ’round I’m going to really try to build a presence on the web. There are a few ways you can do this but I consider most of them lame, i.e. link-exchanges. For any lasting effect links are not the answer, people are. Links live in servers housed in centers. People live in communities.
I think using will help me build a much more easily than the standard wordpress comment system. users will have a user account on my blog already which makes it easier for them to comment. That also makes it easier for me when I do db because without the the db *should* be much smaller.
It allows users to leave via Seesmic, which makes commenting even easier. No account? No problem. You can register a account in the comment form without ever leaving the site. That, is awesome.
Also for those of you getting ready to protest about my claim that links don’t matter I know that they are vital part of attracting visitors. helps out there too. When you install the wordpress plugin you create a page at . Mine is here.
There are also talks of FriendFeed integration which means that the you build using will be even larger. Any way I’ve looked at it I see nothing but advantages to integration. Only time will tell for sure, but I think I’ve made a good choice here. That’s all for now, so let me know what you think.

MyBlogLog Reports

Posted on May 29th, 2008 by megalar

I just went to MyBlogLog for the for the first time in quite a while and my appreciation has went up for it ten-fold.

The widgets are much improved since last I checked them out for one thing. I think the Lifestream widget is teh awesome. No more scraping all those pieces of javascript together, now I just add my services into and let them do it for me. What impressed me most though, and hopefully you too, are the stat reports. Check it out:

Report Results :: Details [Where readers came from]

Rank Last Date/Time Referral Site Count
1 May 28, 2008 @ 16:23 Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: 63
2 May 27, 2008 @ 03:43 Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: 4
3 May 24, 2008 @ 21:16 Google Search: “windows xp professional” “belarc advisor current profile” key: 3
4 May 28, 2008 @ 07:24 Google Search: belarc advisor current profile 3
5 May 26, 2008 @ 03:43 Google Search: belarc advisor current profile 3
6 May 26, 2008 @ 07:06 http: / / www.transformersfans.com/ the- movie/ official- news/ free- download- transformers- the- movie 3
7 May 25, 2008 @ 22:57 Google Search: retail xp home key + belarc profile - oem 2
8 May 27, 2008 @ 16:24 Google Search: world_ of_ whorecraft 2
9 May 26, 2008 @ 08:57 Google Search: belarc advisor xp keys 2
10 May 23, 2008 @ 16:49 Google Search: belarc advisor current profile 2
Total 87

Report Results :: Details [What readers viewed]

Rank URL Views
1 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ 2007/ 04/ 15/ windows- xp- professional- belarc- advisor- current- profile- key- google- search 163
2 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ taxonomy/ tags/ xp 7
3 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ taxonomy/ tags/ world_ of_ whorecraft 4
4 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ 2007/ 04/ 13/ adult- swim- aqua- teen- hunger- force- soundboard 3
5 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ taxonomy/ tags/ keys 3
6 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ ? p= 4544 3
7 http: / / keep4.us/ blog 2
8 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ 2007/ 04/ 16/ captain- power- and- the- soldiers- of- the- future 2
9 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ 2007/ 07/ 13/ scuttle- or- doing- things- with- webspace 2
10 http: / / xiled.rss- central.net/ blog/ taxonomy/ tags/ link- blogging 2
Total 191

Report Results :: Details [What readers clicked]

Rank Title URL Clicks
1 (120×600) http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com#120×600 6
2 Login http://xiled.rss-central.net/blog/wp-login.php 1
3 Submit Query http://xiled.rss-central.net/blog/wp-comments-post.php 1
4 (728×15) http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com#728×15 1
Total 9

And that’s just the free service. If I had the cash I’d sign up for the payed service, but alas, I’m broke. This kind of information is invaluable to any webmaster, but even more so to those who have no access to the Apache on the server that is hosting their site. If you fall into that group, or even if you don’t, you really should consider signing up. If the widgets and stats aren’t enough to get your attention then consider this post. The real value of the many social sites available today isn’t in traffic from inbound links. The real value is that they allow you to build a far reaching . is no different.
You will notice that all the links you see are to my old site and there are two simple reasons for this, neither of which can be blamed on :

  1. This site is new and not well indexed yet, I haven’t even done a formal submission to . I figure I’ll let that take care of itself for now and concentrate on and building.
  2. As I stated at the beginning of this article, today was my first visit to in quite some time so I hadn’t inserted their tracking snippet into my template.

And no to those who will ask, this is not a paid post. is a property of Yahoo! and they don’t need my lowly pagerank to increase their signups.